Because in like, whakapapa and old stories they tend to always use the word moe, but every time iv had a casual convo with another fluent Maori speaker they use ai instead, unless talking about whakapapa.
Is there a reason for this? does the word for sex depend on context? a dialect difference? or do these words mean the same thing?
Pretty much im writing up a fic that takes place in the general area but from my memory from New Vegas and looking on the wiki there doesnt seem to be much lore here.
What I remember/found on wiki:
Utah, full of tribals, raiders and warlords, New Canaanites (and their remnants), 80s, White Legs, Dead Horses and some Legion expansion. Generally primitive besides New Canaan.
Colorado, some Legion expansion, Lanius fucked them up.
Idaho, lots of wilderness and the Khans run off here in some endings.
Wyoming, lots of wilderness and the Khans migrate here in one ending, the White Legs also run off here in one ending.
Im fine with making my own lore for these areas, but I want to stick as close to canon as I can and im wondering if theres some like, official non main game media or other thing that talks more about these areas. Information that the game or wiki might not have or I just missed.
A few times now iv heard from people from Australia, or who spend a lot of time in Australia, that Australians tend to interact more with Maori than they do with Aboriginals. (And because of that Australians are less racist to Maori than they are to Aboriginals or something like that)
Now this feels hard to believe, because Aboriginals outnumber Australian Maori quite a bit, and Maori being immigrants wouldn't they be concentrated into the big cities, instead of Aboriginals, who I assume are spread out across the whole country.
But iv also heard lots of stories of Australian born people, or immigrants who have lived there for decades, just never having met an Aboriginal, so its got me wondering if this is true.
Maori: For Maori here, technically all you need to be Maori is to be able to trace your ancestry back to a Maori person, even if its hundreds of years back if you can trace it then you are Maori. But thats only technically.
Practically, especially for Maori still dwell on their tribes lands and are very connected to the culture, if you did not grow up Maori or in Maori culture, or dont "act Maori", a lot still wont consider you Maori. They wont deny you being Maori or outwardly call you not Maori, but inwardly they will still see you as an outsider.
Its like this especially when you try to claim specific tribal affiliation, if you can prove it a tribe will not deny you being part of the tribe. But you will still be treated like you arent if you are from overseas or a city, you will only be part of the tribe technically.
So for Maori tribes, to be Maori, and part of the tribe, you needed to have grown up in it, or get very connected to it the culture and understand it. It also depends on how you act and behave. Now this depends on tribe I assume, some are probably more accommodating to their disconnected members than others, mine isnt for the most part.
Also lots of, culturally disconnected Maori/the Maori diaspora and non Maori seem to assume its a blood/race thing, like they assume tribes wont fully accept members because they are, half White or something. This is generally untrue, its how you act not your blood, I am a half White and I do not look Maori at all. And no one in my tribe has ever cared or once considered me not Maori, meanwhile I hear them bad mouth tribe members and not fully consider them one of us because they grew up in the cities even though they actually look Maori, unlike me.
White Kiwi: If you look White enough we will consider you White, thats how it seems anyways, no White Kiwi has ever called me out for calling myself White despite not growing up White and only being half White. Also to be a White Kiwi you need to have lived here for a long enough time.
And to be considered a Kiwi, you just have to live here long enough, even if you dont have citizenship some Kiwis will still call you a Kiwi if you live here for a few decades.
Always wondered if they are considered fellow Americans, also wonder if they consider themselves Americans. Does it also depend on which territory? like, would a Puerto Rican be called an American but not a American Samoan?
Over here in NZ while the people of Tokelau, Niue and the Cook Islands have NZ citizenship, no one would call them Kiwis (unless they moved and settled here) and from what I can tell they dont consider themselves Kiwis.
(also I mean the average American, I assume racists would not consider any of these people American)
Mine is one account from the indigenous Maori man named Te Horeta, from the Ngati Whanaunga tribe.
pretty much sometime in the late 1700s, when Te Horeta was a boy.
A European ship (captained by Captain Cook) docked close by to his tribes settlement of Whitianga. The tribe assumed the Europeans were "goblins" (probably Patupaiarehe or Ponaturi, both being mystical tribes from Maori myth) because of how the Europeans rowed on their boats backs facing the beach. When the Europeans got on shore the children and women of the tribe ran away, only the warriors staying.
A bit after, one of the Europeans showed off a gun to the tribe, shooting a bird that was in a tree. The kids again ran away only the old men and warriors of the tribe staying. Te Horeta calling the gun a walking stick that summoned lighting and thunder and made things die.
A while later the tribe visited the European ship, looked at each others stuff, and Te Horeta described Captain Cook as a kind and good man, who handed him a nail which Te Horeta kept as a prized item for years after. (he also called the nail his God, idk if he meant like, literally, or if it was just very important to him)
At some point one of the tribe, an infamous thief named Maturu-ahu, was killed by the Europeans after he tried to steal a blanket while he was trading a dog skin cloak to them, the tribe apparently saying "He was the cause of his own death, and it will not be right to avenge him. All the payment he will obtain for his death will be the goblin's garment which he has stolen, which shall be left to bind around his body where it is laid." And afterwards the tribe and the Europeans remained chill and continued trading and meeting peacefully with each other.
My favourite first contact story, because its from an indigenous perspective unlike most others during the European Empire days, and also because it was largely peaceful.
Also the tribe not giving a shit about the thief's death is pretty funny to me, in other similar cases, where Maori were shot and killed for stealing from Europeans. The tribes generally made war with the Europeans for the killing. Makes me think this thief was particularly hated and the tribe was happy to be rid if him.