1The ancestral home of a Maori kinship group.
he was raised on his papakainga nestled beneath the Papamoa Hills
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- It ran a sewer pipe across the papakainga, turning it into a swamp.
- Maori people returning to their papakainga will be subject to the new provisions of the remote areas policy.
- The papakainga of the Ngati Whatua people at Okahu Bay in Auckland is a place where the people and the land are so inseparable that each defines the other.
- About the same time the papakainga had come into the purview of the Auckland City Council who wanted to compulsorily acquire the settlement.
- Will Maori be asked to relocate from papakainga?.
- It is principally for Maori communities occupying their papakainga.
- 1.1 A housing development for Maori on their ancestral land.
the scheme provides bridging finance for papakainga and other rural developments
as modifier a papakainga housing development
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- The Maori social housing provider endorses building papakainga for families in need.
- The project identified processes for both the design and planning of papakainga.
- The councils are particularly proactive in making provisions for papakainga in their annual plans.
- That land was now considered a marae reserve, which it was hoping to develop into a papakainga.
- The Mangatawa Papakainga is a housing project designed specifically for our Kuia and Kaumatua shareholders.