What do you do on Waitangi Day?

Waitangi Day
Significance Commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, regarded as the nation’s founding document
Observances Hui (including at Te Tii marae) Family gatherings Citizenship ceremonies
Date 6 February
Frequency Annual

How do people commemorate Waitangi Day?

Waitangi Day—February 6, the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840)—is considered the country’s national day. Commemorations are centred on Waitangi but are held throughout the country. Public celebrations include Maori ceremonies as well as sporting events, music, and parades.

What is Waitangi Day and why do we celebrate it?

What do you eat on Waitangi Day?

Waitangi Day, New Zealand’s national day. Every year on 6 February – Waitangi Day – people of all communities and backgrounds gather at Waitangi to commemorate the first signing of New Zealand’s founding document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi, The Treaty of Waitangi, on 6 February 1840.

How do you say Happy Waitangi Day?

Why is the Treaty of Waitangi so important?

WAITANGI DAY KI OKAHU

There will be food stalls aplenty serving up kai Māori (hāngī, kaimoana, fry bread), plus sausage sizzles, burgers and barbecue, among other delicacies.

What is Māori traditional food?

Phonetically pronounced why-tounge-ee, New Zealand’s national day is celebrated on February 6 each year and celebrates the day the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840.

What is New Zealand’s national dish?

How do you cook Māori?

Why the Treaty is important

The Treaty governs the relationship between Māori – the tangata whenua (indigenous people) – and everyone else, and ensures the rights of both Māori and Pakeha (non-Māori) are protected. It does that by: requiring the Government to act reasonably and in good faith towards Māori.

What does Kai mean in Māori?

What did Māori drink?

Traditional foods

Important foods included whitebait, the seaweed karengo, huhu grubs, pikopiko (fern shoots), karaka berries and toroi – a dish of fresh mussels with pūhā (sow thistle) juice.

What vegetables did Māori grow?

What does Ka Pai mean in New Zealand?

The hangi is a traditional Maori form of cooking, where food like fish, meat and kumara are smoked in a pit dug into the ground. This ‘earth oven’ is the perfect way to bring people together and cook a feast, and is still used for special occasions around the country.

What does Kai mean?

What does kia ora mean?

food

Does Ka Pai mean in Maori?

Kai is the Māori word for food. In traditional life, New Zealand’s Māori people were hunters, gatherers and crop farmers who harvested their food from the forest, stream, sea and garden.

What is Nga mihi nui?

Introduction. Māori did not have alcohol before Europeans arrived; when they were introduced to it, most did not like it. It was called waipiro (stinking water), wai kaha (strong water), or, by the few who liked it, waipai (good water).

Does Kia Ora mean thank you?

Māori and European crops

Their main crop was soon potatoes, which provided a heavier and more reliable food source than kūmara, and could be grown throughout the country. Corn, cabbages, tobacco, carrots, turnips, squash, swedes and new varieties of kūmara were also added to Māori gardens.