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… songs. This collection remains a rich source of classical Māori language. Pei Te Hurinui Jones also published works on Maniapoto–Tainui history and genealogy. Rangimārie Hetet developed an … down through successive generations and shared with a wider Māori audience. Maniapoto Māori Trust Board In 1988 the …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… within a distinct tribal area. In the mid-20th century Māori, a largely rural people, moved in large numbers into the cities. This rural to urban migration, the Māori diaspora, led to the majority of Māori living outside … pānui (notices) and calendars lists of tribal marae history of the iwi iwi registration information iwi-themed …
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Part of story: Mātauranga hangarau – information technology
… element of New Zealand society, not least race relations. Māori and Pākehā had been brought together in unprecedented … greater familiarity – and respect. The performance of the Māori Battalion was widely acclaimed. A Māori migration to … artistic landscape. This included the mammoth official war history, a vast array of memoirs, some novels and many …
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Part of story: Second World War
… (the long rib). In 2013 the population was 645. Initially a Māori settlement, Matatā was a centre of trading activity … was 1,638. 62.8% claimed European ethnicity and 43.4% Māori. 1987 earthquake Edgecumbe was the nearest centre to … of Edgecumbe on State Highway 30. Te Teko’s 19th-century history is linked to the ancestor Te Rangitūkehu Hātua, of …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… (Mt Egmont), the summit of which is sacred to local Māori. Nearby are the Kaitake and Pouākai ranges, remnants … is bisected by the Whanganui River. The river has a rich Māori history and was once overlooked by a network of pā known as …
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Part of story: National parks
… College, completing her BA in 1914. A senior scholar in history in 1915, in 1916 she graduated MA with first-class honours in history. In 1925 she was awarded a doctorate in literature, … New Zealand to achieve this distinction. Her thesis, on the history of Canterbury from the beginning of the province …
Type: Biography
… The 1990s were one of the greatest periods of change in the history of New Zealand’s voluntary social services. Many … to hero Academic Mason Durie estimated that the number of Māori social-service provider organisations increased from … zero to more than a thousand’ in the 20 years after 1984. 1 Māori and iwi social services Before it was dismantled in …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… trade system, and New Zealand goods were sold in China. Māori–European interaction The first European ‘town’ grew at … into the Bay of Islands for food and water. From the 1790s, Māori produced pork and potatoes for this trade. The other main area of early interaction between Māori and others was the Foveaux Strait sealing grounds. The …
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Part of story: History
… The East Coast is the region with the highest percentage of Māori – 48.9% in 2013 (compared to 14.9% for New Zealand as … the heartland of Ngāti Porou, over 85% of residents are Māori. In 2013 the population of the region was 43,653. The … conflict between races played a large part in the region’s history. The high Māori population gives the region its …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… and international comparisons Terry Sturm’s Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English (first … Panoho acknowledged past cultural ‘borrowings’ by both Māori and Pākehā, but asserted ‘In the cultural sphere – the … and move taha Maori (things Maori) back to the centre.’ 1 Māori perspectives Māori perspectives have become …
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Part of story: Criticism and the arts
… its population was 3,915. 77.9% identified themselves as Māori. Māori historical associations are significant. The Northern … army hospital and air force bomber unit. Today some of this history is presented at Kaikohe’s pioneer village and …
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Part of story: Northland places
… War. The Esk River, which has popular fishing spots, has a history of flooding. Whirinaki Small settlement on State … headland (part of the Tāngōio Bluff) was an important Māori waka (canoe) landing site and later became a whaling … was an estuary and important food-gathering spot for Māori until the land was raised by the 1931 earthquake. The …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… a fledgling industry to back serious literature and history. New publishers appear A regular recipient of grants … poetry, fiction, books for children, educational texts and Māori topics constituted the firm’s nearly 200 publications … 40–50 books a year. To popular history, natural history and Māori themes were added tales of the high country such as …
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Part of story: Publishing
… appointed lecturer in political economy and constitutional history at Canterbury College. Save for a year in 1927 on exchange with Professor A. J. Grant in the chair of history at Leeds, he was never again to leave either his … of studies in commerce, and in 1909 to the new chair of history and economics. When the chair was divided, in 1919, …
Type: Biography
… academically and in sport, especially rugby. He enjoyed history, English and drama, and his mother, who took a … there he boarded with Tipi Tainui Rōpiha (later the first Māori under-secretary for Māori Affairs) and his wife, Rhoda. Black’s belief in social …
Type: Biography
… Dick Hīmona worked tirelessly to improve the welfare of Māori in Te Ore Ore, where he farmed, and throughout … The school had a large roll and catered mainly for Māori children. He was to serve on the committee for 21 … of the collection of Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. Dick Hīmona was awarded the Queen’s Service Medal …
Type: Biography
… Victoria, the governor had the task of looking after both Māori and Pākehā. Māori had been neglected by the government, perhaps because … including language, genealogies, legends, contemporary history, political commentary, customs, commentary on …
Type: Biography
… Māori ideas In Māori society historic places are linked to whakapapa … knowledge of such places has been derived from kōrero (oral history) and archaeological research. Pākehā ideas For … structure. On these occasions a newspaper might detail the history of the condemned structure but little thought was …
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Part of story: Historic places
… land was returned. The islands stagnated, with almost all Māori returning to Taranaki in the 1860s, some after a … the only tsunami-related death in recorded New Zealand history). Many Māori leased land for grazing sheep to a few Pākehā men of …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… The term ‘kāwanatanga’ is derived from a Māori-language version of the English word ‘governor’. There is no exact equivalent in Māori for this word, since traditional Māori society had … exercise of their chieftainship’ 5 . Throughout the history of the state’s relations with Māori, the exact …
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Part of story: Kāwanatanga – Māori engagement with the state