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Tanuki

(14,917 posts) Thu Mar 22, 2018, 09:50 AM Mar 2018

Traditional Maori powhiri greeting honors Obama in NZ

Our cool and culturally savvy president knows to keep his gaze on the warrior

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Traditional Maori powhiri greeting honors Obama in NZ (Original Post) Tanuki Mar 2018 OP

Tan suit! femmocrat Mar 2018 #1

LOL malaise Mar 2018 #3

What an honor eleny Mar 2018 #2

I'm in tears, watching this beautiful ceremony and our wonderful President being honored. Rene Mar 2018 #4

Anyone with knowledge of the ceremony Ms. Toad Mar 2018 #5

Apparently the Maori translation of the song (How Great Thou Art) has become so Tanuki Mar 2018 #7

Kiri Te Kanawa is one of the most beautiful women in the world. Aristus Mar 2018 #8

omg we chose the same Somme version. my favorite hymn OhNo-Really Mar 2018 #11

Respect, dignity and grace. AJT Mar 2018 #6

Yeah. MBS Mar 2018 #9

The song at the end is my favorite hymn How Great Thou Art OhNo-Really Mar 2018 #10

It was my grandmother's favorite hymn and we sang it at her funeral, Tanuki Mar 2018 #12

🎆 Please accept a grandma hug from me, dear. OhNo-Really Mar 2018 #13

Wow! Remember when the President was intelligent and cool? TomSlick Mar 2018 #14

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

1. Tan suit!

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 09:52 AM

Mar 2018

Or light gray at least.

malaise

(268,870 posts)

3. LOL

Reply to femmocrat (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 10:00 AM

Mar 2018

They'll take him in anything over the low-life now occupying the WH.

eleny

(46,166 posts)

2. What an honor

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 09:58 AM

Mar 2018

By the end it had me in tears. I'm a softy like that.

Rene

(1,183 posts)

4. I'm in tears, watching this beautiful ceremony and our wonderful President being honored.

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 10:20 AM

Mar 2018

I deeply miss this man in our lives and realize how well he held/handled our American populace's best interests, thruout those 8 years.. He's well respected in the World.

Ms. Toad

(34,058 posts)

5. Anyone with knowledge of the ceremony

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 11:00 AM

Mar 2018

Have any insight about the tune from a Christian hymn that ended it?

It seemed out of place, especially given the long history of anglicizing native people's.

Tanuki

(14,917 posts)

7. Apparently the Maori translation of the song (How Great Thou Art) has become so

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 11:29 AM

Mar 2018

deeply ingrained in the culture that it is practically a staple of solemn occasions, Maori funerals, welcoming dignitaries, etc. The vast majority of contemporary Maoris who profess a religion identify as Christian.
Here are a couple of the many renditions of the hymn that can be found on youtube: