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… nation. Price and quantity causes For much of New Zealand’s history, the balance of trade was virtually equivalent to … with an ambitious plan to increase immigration, purchase Māori land and invest in roads and bridges. To finance these … A brief history …
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Part of story: Balance of payments
… Ranginui and Papatūānuku The first parents in Māori tradition were the atua (gods) Ranginui (sky father) … was considered the first sin. Tāne and Hineahuone In Māori tradition humans are descended from the gods. However, … Kahutiaterangi (who became known as Paikea) survived. Early history The records of early European visitors suggest that …
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Part of story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting
… became known by the name ‘Dawn Raids’. Many Pacific and Māori people were also stopped in the street or in their … said, ‘The Dawn Raids period cast a shadow over our shared history … Expressing our sorrow, regret and remorse for past … discriminatory during the Dawn Raids era. ‘Pacific peoples, Māori and other ethnic communities were specifically …
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Part of story: Samoans
… standards and attempted to bring New Zealand’s written history into the 20th century. Volumes by Beaglehole on the … were major contributions. But the coverage was thin on Māori content (the volume by Māori leader Apirana Ngata on Māori remained unfinished) and …
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Part of story: History and historians
… clues as to when the first Polynesians, the ancestors of Māori, came to New Zealand. They are thought to have arrived … indicate that some Polynesians may have been living there. Māori people living in New Zealand before Europeans arrived … around 1450, 1500 and 1655. According to Māori oral history Karakatonga pā, on the northern side of the …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… Māori law The law in New Zealand until 1840 was tikanga Māori and Māori customary law – the customs and methods of governance … Legal history …
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Part of story: Law
… Māori fishing In spring, Māori caught whitebait moving upstream, using nets and … hāngī (earth oven) in flax baskets lined with fern fronds. Māori fishermen also sold their catch. In her book Station … in the 1930s over 95% of the whitebaiters on the river were Māori. They paid a voluntary levy of one penny per pound of …
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Part of story: Whitebait and whitebaiting
… drawn closer and become more entwined since 1980. Early history Australia and New Zealand had quite separate … colony for New Zealand as well as for eastern Australia. Māori were involved from the start in shaping trans-Tasman … Shared colonial history …
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Part of story: Australia and New Zealand
… scattered traces of occupation, little is known about early Māori on the island. Coastal settlements were not large and … Mt Anglem/Hananui (980 m), is spiritually important to Māori. In oral lore Ngāi Tahu ancestor Rakitamau lost his … mountain Hananui in reference to his glowing cheeks. Māori caught fish and gathered shellfish. Harvesting tītī …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… Māui The demigod Māui is one of the most famous whāngai in Māori tradition. When he was born, his mother believed he … Hariata Pōmare and her husband Hare were in England with a Māori tour party in 1863. The party met Queen Victoria who, … no Ngapuhi’ 1 (few are aware that Queen Victoria has a Māori child as a whāngai, a child of the Pomare family, from …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… The history of Tāmaki (Auckland) shows the area to be a highly … Pakūrangarāhihi (the battle of sunrays). The waters of Hua Māori tribes knew Tāmaki's two major harbours by different … Tribal history and places …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… Māori use of stone Although Māori did not use metals, stone was widely used for tools, … around New Zealand by 1400 CE, within 150 years of Māori settlement. Former quarries have been identified where … History of mining …
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Part of story: Mining and underground resources
… of ancient, endemic life forms. Importance to Māori Tuatara are of great cultural significance to Māori, and feature in some creation stories. Some iwi … Life history …
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Part of story: Tuatara
… Ngāi Tahu origins lie in Hawaiki, which is considered by Māori to be their homeland in the Pacific. The story begins … Early history …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Peninsula its paramount chief was Whātonga. He was a noted Māori navigator and the grandson of the Polynesian explorer … and they had a son called Te Ao Haeretahi who married Rakaimāori. They in turn had a son called Tūteremoana who became … Early history …
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Part of story: Muaūpoko
… Māori history At the end of the 19th century and into the 20th, there was a growing concern to recapture history. The first focus was on Māori history, motivated by a widespread belief that Māori … The first half of the 20th century – amateur history …
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Part of story: History and historians
… The first newspaper in the Māori language – Ko te Karere o Nui Tireni – was published … 1842. From then till the early 1930s some 40 newspapers in Māori were published by the government, philanthropists, … the use of Māori as a first language. Record of New Zealand history All the Māori-language newspapers advocated for …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… in colonial New Zealand, the exception was paintings of Māori people. This was partly because, like the country’s … Sydney Parkinson and William Hodges – all painted Māori figures. They had some success recording Māori … of a noble race’ and ‘The passing of the old-time Maori’. History painting European painting had a tradition of …
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Part of story: Painting
… forest were seen as the two food baskets of the traditional Māori economy. Bounty of the forest In the forest, birds … for adornment and making cloaks. Europeans and hunting Like Māori, early European settlers often relied on native birds … of food. However, later there were clashes over the way Māori and Pākehā viewed hunting. Māori saw birds as part of …
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Part of story: Te tāhere manu – bird catching
… Whanganui was founded in 1840, the population was entirely Māori. The European population grew rapidly after nearby … the region were settled. By 1886 the region had 15,000 non-Māori. There were about 1,770 Māori, half the number 15 … Māori Trust Board was set up in 1988, as part of a long history of litigation and struggle for recognition of rights …
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Part of story: Whanganui region