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What is the name of the traditional food-gathering rights and responsibilities associated with specific iwi or hapū over particular resources within their rohe (territory)?

Mahinga kai refers to the customary gathering of food and other natural resources, and the places where those resources are gathered — a concept central to Māori identity and economic wellbeing, explicitly protected in the Ngāi Tahu Settlement.

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