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1925 App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. g-6 13 Although I was aware that he was not the tamaiti whangai of Taki, I had agreed to show aroha to Tiweka. I may have said he was a whangai of Taki, but that is a common term.

1979 He Mātāpuna 28/1 I should state here that I was a whāngai, a very good way to be!

2004 fRoots Dec. 51/1 I was a Whangai..to my grandparents, meaning I was brought up by them and being their first grandchild I had all the love, input and support from them, plus my mother and family around me.

2014 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 123 342 The pleasurable intimacy of this essay is enhanced by Te Rire's descent from one of the boys Te Hihita adopted as a whangai.

1948 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 57 268 European adoptions, the equivalent of Maori whangai, are mostly due to the natural urge impelling childless couples to adopt a child or children.

1994 Waikato Law Rev. 2 136 Maori whangai arrangements had been recognised as valid adoptions by the law.

1997 S. M. Mead Landmarks, Bridges & Visions xxi. 209 It is quite clear in the Maori mind that the task of whangai was to bring up the child in the culture of the parents.

2017 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 10 Nov. Some of those principles of whangai, we believe, have a lot to offer in terms of what we do with children who are taken from their birth families.