Rainbow Safe : Introduction to Takatāpui and Rainbow Communities

Tangata Whenua is a Māori term that translates to "people of the land". It can refer to either a specific group of people with historical claims to a district, or more broadly the Māori people as a whole. The Māori people are the indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Tauiwi is a Māori term that means people from another land - often used as a catch-all to mean non-Māori.

Māori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Takatāpui is an old Māori term, it has many meanings for iwi and hapū today, originally meaning “intimate partner of the same sex.” Today, Takatāpui's meaning has evolved to include all the people with diverse sex characteristics, gender identities and expressions and sexualities with Māori identity

Tino Rangatiratanga is a Māori term meaning sovereignty or self-determination, or the process where Māori people can have the freedom to choose how they live without anyone else telling them otherwise.

Mana Wāhine refers to the power, strength and authority of women, just because they are women. It is a concept that comes from traditional Māori values where the word 'mana' stands for the power from within a human being, and there are different kinds of mana in different situations.

Tangata Tiriti is a Māori term that translates to "people of the Treaty".

It refers to all people that have come to this land to make a home here. According to te Tiriti o Waitangi, they have also got responsibility to upload the promises of tino rangatiratanga (sovereignty) of the Māori people.