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… least in technical competence – of writing on New Zealand history have risen since the Second World War. The most … concentration on the origins of European settlement and on Maori-Pakeha relations up to the 1860s. Until Maori social … History …
… time. This law applied in theory and, later, in practice to Maori as well as to Pakeha. The natives outside the … in 1844 and 1846 towards adapting criminal procedure to Maori conditions. Further than this the authorities were … numbers from whom to choose, the Courts have throughout our history performed with impartiality and, on the whole, with …
… obstacles not lessened by intertribal strife among the Maoris and by war between Europeans and Maoris. In the early years ships, although subject to … those who undertook the various sections of the route, both Maori and European, faced extreme hardships and dangers, and …
… New Zealand. For the first hundred years of the country's history, Christchurch alone has maintained the traditions of … who was later to achieve fame overseas. To complete the history of opera up to the present time mention may be made … which frequently sought to catch the spirit and flavour of Maoriland, there has been no strongly marked tendency to …
… The principal traditional arts of the Maori may be broadly classified as carving in wood, stone, … tattooing. It is the habit of ethnologists to study Maori art as if it had come to an abrupt end on the arrival … been built in the last 30 years than in any like time in Maori history. Many of the present-day carvers are descended …
… discoverers explore and explorers discover. Secondly, as history depends upon documents, the role of those who set … left few or no documents, first place must be given to the Maori: the great majority of explorers depended upon them. … the Southern Alps, was explored without benefit either of Maori advice or of Maori guides. It is abundantly clear that …
… In the future of North Auckland the Maori population is a dynamic factor because, as a whole, … levels of the two populations, the presence of a large Maori population will have a depressing effect upon economic … will be considered as one of the most important in the history of North Auckland and its Maoris, for obviously a …
… of islands as the Hawaiki (or homeland) of the New Zealand Maori, and South-east Asia as the original home of the … is a distinct break between typical moa-hunter and classic Maori occupations. The classic Maori culture was that … Porere pa (National Park). It is here that archaeology and history meet. …
… Maori “King” Flags Recognising that the Union Jack was the … the Treaty of Waitangi from which that power derived, the Maori tribes who banded together to elect a King sought a … It was never captured and nothing is known of its later history. In February 1870 Colonel McDonnell captured the …
… Patently because there were new villains to cope with – the Maoris themselves, who were, it was argued, engaged upon … deliberate flouting of the law. The myth entered subsequent history; it is now clear that no such league was ever … given their head. This view, which has entered subsequent history, may be classed as an extension of the antipathy to …