mana tangata
1. (noun) power and status accrued through one's leadership talents, human rights, mana of people.
Ka hoki whakamuri te mahara ki ngā rā e houkura ana te mana tangata (TTT 1/12/1929:1935). / The memory goes back to the days when people's mana was intact.
I haere ā tātou tamariki ki te pakanga kia mau ai te mana tangata me te mana whenua kei riro i te raupatu a te Tiamana (TTT 1/6/1924:60). / Our children went to the war in order to maintain the people's mana and authority over the land lest it be taken away by German conquest.
See also mana
mana tangata whenua
1. (noun) indigenous rights.
See also mana
mana whakatipu
1. (noun) aquired leadership - power and status accrued through one's leadership talents, mana resulting from strength of character and force of will, and the means a leader has to enforce those wishes. Also known as mana tangata.
(Te Kōhure Video Tapes (Ed. 1): 6;)
See also mana, mana tangata
