karakia

Ranui embeds Maori culture by using words from the language in her coaching and leading Karakia, a type of Maori prayer, after matches.

Leger-Walker said some 100 people would be there for nightly prayer circles called “Karakia,” a Maori word for prayer.

“Whenever I haka, I feel like I am from the tribe, standing with them — that all their spirits are with us,” said high school student Georgia Horiana Myers Meihana, after she and her classmates finished reciting a karakia, or Maori prayer, at a flower memorial.

"Whenever I haka, I feel like I am from the tribe, standing with them — that all their spirits are with us," said high school student Georgia Horiana Myers Meihana, after she and her classmates finished reciting a karakia, or Maori prayer, at a flower memorial.

“Whenever I haka, I feel like I am from the tribe, standing with them - that all their spirits are with us,” said high school student Georgia Horiana Myers Meihana, after she and her classmates finished reciting a karakia, or Maori prayer, at a flower memorial.