Editing Tino rangatiratanga (section)

==Flag==
{{Main articles|National Māori flag}}

[[Image:Tino Rangatiratanga Maori sovereignty movement flag.svg|thumb|right|The national Māori (or ''tino rangatiratanga'') flag]]
The ''tino rangatiratanga'' flag is often referred to as the national Māori flag<ref>{{cite web |last1=Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage |title=Flags of New Zealand Page 6 – The national Māori flag |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/flags-of-new-zealand/maori-flag |website=New Zealand History |access-date=12 October 2018}}</ref> and can be<!-- has been? --> used to represent all Māori.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} Hiraina Marsden, Jan Smith and Linda Munn designed the flag in 1989.<ref>
{{cite web
| last1 = Dignan
| first1 = James
| title = Tino Rangatiratanga flag
| url = http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/nz_mao.html#tino
| website = Flags of the World
| access-date = 31 March 2015
| quote = It was designed in 1990 by Hiraina Marsden, Jan Smith and Linda Munn, and was the winning design in a national contest to find a "Māori Flag".
}}
</ref> It uses black, white, and red as [[national colours of New Zealand]]. The design of the flag references the Māori creation story of [[Rangi and Papa]], suggesting the sky, the earth, and the physical realm of light and being, which was created when they were separated.<ref name="fotw">{{cite web|url=http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/nz_mao.html |title=New Zealand – Maori Flags |publisher=Crwflags.com |access-date=2015-08-11}}</ref>