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… questions about whether the moa had been exterminated by Māori, or by pre-Māori people. If the latter, who were these people and what … concluded that those who had hunted the moa belonged to prehistory and were a Palaeolithic people. Percy Smith’s Great …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… lived, Te Rangiotū received an extensive education in the history and traditions of Rangitāne. His knowledge was put … charts appear in John White 's The ancient history of the Māori (1887–90). By 1840 he had become a convert to … Rangitāne and Ngāti Raukawa, was presented to Tāwhiao , the Māori King; Tāne-nui-a-Rangi is on loan to the Manawatū …
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… been influential in persuading the Moriori not to fight the Māori invaders in 1835 and 1836. By this time Tapu was fluent in written and spoken Māori, and he understood Moriori and spoke a little English. … through him. Visitors who wanted to discuss Moriori history and customs, such as Stephenson Percy Smith and …
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… to the state. General land is ordinary private land. Māori land is owned by Māori and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Māori Land Court. The Māori Land Court is an institution …
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Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… Warburton and Roy Clevely all published books on the early history of the region. Monte Holcroft set a high literary … on early Levin, and Leslie Adkin wrote extensively on Māori and the natural history of Horowhenua and neighbouring … theatre company outside the four main centres. In 1973 Māori artist Cliff Whiting was appointed as lecturer in art …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… Bennett, an Anglican minister, then superintendent of the Māori Mission at Rotorua, was later the first Anglican Māori bishop of Aotearoa. Arihia Hēmana was the daughter of … Howard Kippenberger on the draft of the Māori Battalion’s history with the War History Branch of the Department of …
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… Tūtere Wī Repa was one of a group of Māori who, in the early twentieth century, set out to put … he was admitted to Te Aute College, which aimed to prepare Māori youths for professional careers. Life in strange … At other times he was called upon to lecture on Māori history and health at schools and he compiled a thorough …
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… South Taranaki, on 7 November 1898, the eldest son of a Māori Methodist minister, Robert Tahupōtiki Haddon of Ngāti … Through Oliver’s early life, Tahupōtiki ministered to Māori in South Taranaki, seeking to reconcile them to … well known as a broadcaster for his accounts of Māori history, mythology and poetry. He broadcast his own …
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… Graphic design Industrial design Landscape architecture Māori architecture – whare Māori Public, commercial and church architecture Theatres, … and foreign-language studies Criticism and the arts History and historians Ideas in New Zealand Life sciences …
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… launch and guiding people around the lake. He learnt Tūhoe history and began to develop skills as a communicator and … Camp in October 1939, and joined the 28th New Zealand (Māori) Battalion. He rose to sergeant and saw action in … to Bluff and becoming involved in the affairs of the local Māori community he had transferred to the Southern Māori …
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… was often used for this. Archaeology is the study of human history and prehistory through the analysis of physical … first voyage to New Zealand, in discussion with learned Māori elders at Ūawa (Tolaga Bay): ‘Tupia ... askd them in … British explorer James Cook recorded detailed accounts of Māori and other peoples throughout the Pacific. The …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… to support lectures, research and publications on Waikato history. His crowning achievement, the two books Armed … (1964), remain the standard authorities on Hamilton history between 1864 and 1894. They were meticulously … which combined his church and historical interests, History of the Anglican Church at Hamilton, 1843–1964 and A …
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… of the British and colonial forces and about 250 kūpapa (Māori allies of the government) died. The number killed on … of about 60,000, this was a major loss of young men. Māori who had fought against the Crown lost very substantial … the British Empire. In the 1920s James Cowan’s two-volume history of the wars, which in one sense was a pioneering …
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Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… or John Charles Tīkao) was born there. Tāmati established a Māori school at Wairewa. His brother Hōne settled at Wakaroa … of an encyclopaedic knowledge of Ngāi Tahu natural lore and history pertaining to the Canterbury area. (In later life … Canterbury Pākehā, and he frequently delivered addresses on Māori tradition and hosted Pākehā groups at Rāpaki or …
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… things. It maps relationships so that mythology, legend, history, knowledge, tikanga (custom), philosophies and … the next. Whakapapa is the core of traditional mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge). Whakapapa means genealogy. Other Māori …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… in Western society is often seen as a necessary evil, in Māori society the practice of whāngai is perceived as a … Ngata , as a whāngai Te Puea Hērangi , granddaughter of the Māori King Tāwhiao , who had around 50 whāngai children … many faces, many manifestations. Gone are the values, the history and the very essence that makes us intrinsically …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… Mohi. He also painted portraits of racehorses. Steele's history paintings were sometimes very large and painted … a teacher and had steeped himself in New Zealand life. As a history and portrait painter he left many notable works, and …
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… known to his hapū and iwi as Te Nika and in the wider Māori world as Te Rangihau, was born at Kūhā, south of … and served overseas with B Company of the 28th New Zealand (Māori) Battalion, returning home with the battalion after … He also conducted schools of learning in Māori culture and history for Tūhoe students and young people. The result was …
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… remittances (payments) to family members back home. Māori political values While Māori share many of the beliefs, attitudes and values of New … community means that their views about New Zealand and its history, the state and government policies are not wholly …
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Part of story: Political values
… In the 19th century traditional Māori waiata continued to be composed with some changes in … Adaptations of European styles of music using te reo Māori (the Māori language) also began. Māori-language … iwi. These anthems often share part of the tribe’s unique history, and their singing invokes tribal pride. One such …
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Part of story: Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs