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… them, not out of an altruistic interest in recording the history and traditions of his people, but because writing … will keep to mine.…Rangi is my ancestor, the origin of the Māori people. Your ancestor is money.' In the 1880s in the … with each other the proceedings were not in accordance with Māori custom. Tumutara Pio was there with a large delegation …
Type: Biography
… Christian ideas, with the exception of some new forms of Māori religion and the occasional lone theologian like the … were important early recorders of the geology and natural history of New Zealand. They saw science as unfolding the … Missionaries also added to the debate about the nature of Māori. Initially they came with the simple view that Māori …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… Treaty of Waitangi were marked more by cooperation between Māori and non-Māori than by conflict. Organised immigration began in 1840 … of the 1860s represented, overall, the lowest point in the history of New Zealand’s race relations. More than 2,000 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… Party (NZP) had a brief but bright moment in political history. It was set up as a protest against the National … to the two-party system in the electoral contests for the Māori seats. Mana Motuhake o Aotearoa was founded in 1980 by Matiu Rata, a former Labour MP and minister of Māori affairs. Rata left the Labour Party (citing a lack of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Political parties
… (greeting) to all the people of the country, and to engage Māori early on through entries on iwi. It also took … of general editor Jock Phillips’s strengths in immigration history. There followed groupings of several themes on the … area. The list was presented to Te Ara’s general and Māori advisory committees for feedback and suggestions of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… and law papers. Te Wānanga o Raukawa offers a degree in Māori laws and philosophy. Philosophy classes are held to a … has been noteworthy in the fields of ethics, logic, and history of philosophy, particularly early modern philosophy … Treaty of Waitangi, justice and the natural environment. Māori knowledge systems (mātauranga Māori) are considered a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Philosophy
… rolling farmland. More than 2,700 state houses were built. Māori history The new city obscured much of Porirua’s history. The … in turn, were displaced in the 1820s by Ngāti Toarangatira. Māori–European conflict In 1846, tension between Ngāti Toa …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington places
… secretary and interpreter, researching and recording tribal history and whakapapa, and assisting him with petitions and … in such matters as the Mangatū blocks, East Coast Māori Trust lands and the Patutahi compensation claims. With … with the Waerenga-a-hika Trust Board, which assisted young Māori to achieve higher education. After her father’s death …
Type: Biography
… to visit Communist China. Some of her films explored Māori society and highlighted discrimination against Māori. As a Māori woman, she was a doubly unique figure in … closing of China’s borders in 1949. On that trip Ramai made history when Rudall filmed her wearing a piupiu and …
Type: Biography
… work on the lives of people who shaped this country’s history and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first … of researchers and editors. The DNZB’s 500 biographies on Māori subjects are also available in te reo Māori, which – together with the te reo sections of Te Ara – …
Type: Basic page
… exceptional builder of academic institutions. In academic Māori studies he was the most influential figure of the … developed the first university curriculum in the study of Māori language, culture and literature, and trained the … dictionary (1981), Nga iwi o Tainui: the traditional history of the Tainui people (with Pei Te Hurinui Jones , …
Type: Biography
… of the Native Land laws and practice, as well as of Maori history and custom'. In 1927 Cooper was native associate to the royal commission of inquiry into confiscated Māori lands that was chaired by Sir William Sim . In the … Ngata became native minister and inaugurated a programme of Māori land development. Cooper was placed in charge of land …
Type: Biography
… Ōmeka Whakamutunga Ngāherehere Tapsell (Tāpihana), a former Māori All Black, who was rehabilitating from injuries … and Apirana Ngata to secure Te Arawa's acceptance of the Māori lands development scheme in Maketū. Tuberculosis was … radio scripts on Māori culture, women's life and natural history. Her series, ‘The Māori way of life today’, was …
Type: Biography
… especially languages of the Polynesian peoples, including Māori. This suggested a common and comparatively recent settlement of the region. Naming Māori New Zealand’s first settlers were Polynesians who … Christian missionaries had a biblical interpretation of history, in which all people were the descendants of Noah …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… A long tradition The history of visual arts, crafts and design in New Zealand stretches back some 700 years to the first Māori arrivals from East Polynesia, with their rich … economic and cultural dependence on other countries. Māori art Māori artists have increased in number and …
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Part of story: Creative life
… significant consideration was the different treatment of Māori that was likely to follow union with Australia. The place of Māori in New Zealand identity became an important point of … they believed that Māori legends could provide an instant history for newcomers, and that Māori could make, as the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: The New Zealanders
… of people coming from other countries.’ 1 Issues for Māori operators A significant number of rural tourism businesses are Māori-owned and operated. Ownership is often joint, through … how much they can talk about sensitive aspects of tribal history. Rural tourism agencies In the late 1990s rural …
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Part of story: Rural tourism
… a relatively brief though crucial period in the region’s history. A name bestowed by Europeans, it recalls the period … boundaries by throwing a hat onto a map – was coined by Māori and asserted Māori sovereignty over the region. Neither are official …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country region
… 1970s: a seminal decade The 1970s were a seminal decade in Māori demographic history. After post-war improvements in mortality, rapidly falling fertility propelled Māori into the third stage of the demographic transition. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… was of chiefly rank in Ngāpuhi . Although she was a full Māori, only English was spoken in the family home. At the … by offering him £30 per term plus board. He had to learn Māori in order to teach English to Māori boys. Although he … however, he developed a keen interest in the language, history and traditions of the Māori people. On 5 February …
Type: Biography