Marae

The marae is the forum or place of public assembly -- an open circular space, surrounded by bread-fruit trees, under the shade of which the people sit. ❋ George Turner (N/A)

In the rear of the marae was the ossary where the bones of the victims were thrown. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

TWoA Pouhere (chief executive) Bentham Ohia said the marae was the catalyst for a revolution in tertiary education provision - especially for Maori. ❋ Unknown (2010)

SHANE Well certainly the Waitangi I saw, other than the Maori Party flag and Hone's flag sitting on the mast of the pirate ship outside the marae was a relatively calm day. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are many words found only in New Zealand English ( 'marae', 'morepork'), while other words ( 'mainland', 'mufti') have acquired individual meanings here which are either additional to or substitutions for those used in general English. ❋ Penny Griffith (1885)

A proposal from the Greens for a parallel justice system tailored for Maori, which would be open to all, would not be considered although he said aspects such as marae-based restorative justice would remain "intertwined" in the present system.

Similarly with New Zealand items; a tree unknown to me (forty years a New Zealander), mako, is included while the ubiquitous macrocarpa (an introduced cypress) and important Maori social terms such as marae ❋ Unknown (1980)

On December 19th 2008, paige thompson wrote: girl i would love too see tina turner in ngaiotonga new zealand. take her to my local marae which is only nextdoor. and get the local boys to dive for us some kaimoana in english seafood. she can bring oprah, gayle celine dion, toni braxton, cher, kylie minogue, whitney houston and all my fav female singers. i sing and dance to them in my caravan. i am a diva. love arohanui paige. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ❋ Unknown (2008)

'marae', a Maori meeting place, on the lake's shores. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was the international year of Indigenous Peoples and he was proclaiming his newfound Maori heritage, going to a marae and meeting distant relatives. ❋ Another Outspoken Female (2008)

Prime Minister John Key was jostled by two Maori men while visiting the marae on the eve of Waitangi Day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Through a happy chain of circumstances, we got the kids connected to their own marae, Matawaia, in the midst of Ngati Hine country, and our guide had his daughter formally call us onto their own marae. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Because no one in my family has any money, we were doing the trip marae-style: Geekman and I, my mother, my mother-in-law, father-in-law and brother-in-law all sleeping on mattresses on the floor of the local church hall. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

I hear the karanga: in New Zealand, women lead a song of welcome to the dead when the bodies of the fallen are brought home, preparing a sound gate through which the warriors pass into the marae, the communal sacred home that houses the umbilical cords of the tribe. ❋ Rus Bowden (2007)

Furthermore, the island is studded with place names that signpost significant activities and events: Bang Iron Valley, where the mutineers set up the Bounty anvil; Down Isaac, an area of rock pools below mutineer Isaac Martin's land; and Down the gods, the site of a pre-Bounty Polynesian sacred place, or marae, later destroyed because it was seen as an afront to the Christian beliefs of the mutineers and their descendants. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Hundreds of children waved palm fronds and formed an honor guard outside the marae, an ornate meeting place regarded as sacred land. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Horoeka, stepping out into the _marae_ to fetch his victim to the sacrifice, was just in time to see that victim disappearing round the corner of his prison-house. ❋ Various (N/A)