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… parenting There are difficulties raising children in Māori households where sole responsibility is left to one … for the children. Supporting whānau Whānau and Māori society benefit from coordinated efforts to provide … dynamics of negotiation, conflict and resolution, and the history of food and migration. Other practices such as …
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Part of story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting
… His knowledge of Maori language, customs, aspirations and history was vital in gaining the support of the Maori …
Type: Biography
… dreams, these confirmed a commitment to his traditional Māori heritage. He was present at many tribal gatherings, … From 1928 he was in charge of the consolidation of Māori lands in the King Country. At a meeting at Te Kūiti to … casually ask a brief question to elicit some point of history'. The culmination of many years of research was a …
Type: Biography
… Pātoka. His father was from one of the most illustrious Māori families in Hawke's Bay: Paraire's uncles included … Takamoana and Hēnare Tomoana were MHRs for Eastern Māori. Paraire belonged to Ngāti Te Whatu-i-āpiti and Ngāti … a commentator on ancient waiata, well versed in Māori history and lore. It is probable that much of the latter was …
Type: Biography
… firm convictions by his first extended contact with the Māori in April 1842 when, with Captain A. D. W. Best, he … a tour of Waikato. Shortland was anxious to learn about the Māori language and way of life. He found ample opportunity … Tahu, Shortland acquired a framework of South Island Māori history and genealogy. When Godfrey departed on 15 October, …
Type: Biography
… Mahina-a-rangi Manuel (historian-researcher mātauranga Māori), Gareth Phipps (digital adviser), Leone Samu Tui … historian), Xavier Forde (senior historian mātauranga Māori). Others who had an important role in maintaining Te … Otago, and Director of the postgraduate diploma in natural history film making and communication Allison Dobbie, …
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… of eels. Whanganui River claim The 19th-century protests by Māori over their threatened river interests heralded the longest-running legal case in New Zealand history. This began in the 1930s with petitions and court … (rights to the land), but also presented a traditional Māori face and attendance for the many visitors who journey …
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Part of story: Whanganui tribes
… his zest for learning – especially his interest in natural history – was such that his future wife was to write: 'He … with Maria, learnt French and German, began a study of the Māori language, collected plant and insect specimens for … Hochstetter and went bird watching on Mt Taranaki with a Māori companion, Mohi. He enjoyed these activities but was …
Type: Biography
… was politically active in events affecting Hawke's Bay Māori, including the Kotahitanga movement of the 1890s. … to Ngāti Rakaipaaka. As a boy Jimmy was exposed to both Māori and European beliefs and each had an influence on his … at Taihoa marae, Wairoa. A man well versed in tribal history, Jimmy Mapu was aware that much was being lost with …
Type: Biography
… sailed into Hokianga Harbour and began the institutional history of Catholicism in New Zealand. The Catholics were late starters in the race to bring Christianity to Māori – the Anglicans had arrived in 1814, the Wesleyans … later – but they soon made rapid progress in converting Māori. They were well supplied with men, money and material …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… whom died in infancy. Hiwi gained a place in local sporting history by being a member of the Poverty Bay rugby team that … and he became a key link between the union and Poverty Bay Māori. He attended his first union annual conference in … bad in Poverty Bay because many of the shearers were Māori. This issue was to remain Maynard’s prime concern, he …
Type: Biography
… in 2000 was 76 years for men and 81 years for women. Māori life expectancy was lower – 68 for men and 71 for … slipped. Infant mortality remains higher for Māori than non-Māori, but between 1950 and 1998 the Māori rate declined …
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Part of story: Society
… Waitangi Day by holding competitions for kapa haka (Māori performing arts) and touch football matches. This is a … in order to revive and maintain the customs, traditions and history of the Muaūpoko people. …
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Part of story: Muaūpoko
… New Zealand’s writers, artists and thinkers, Māori and non-Māori, have been among its most effective cultural … of the Tūhoe people who passed on their knowledge of tribal history and genealogy. The half-Māori, half-Irish medical …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… television, radio and print media, and chaired the board of Māori Television. Fox was also the mayor of Wairoa from 1995 … He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1999 and 2008. History Wairoa was originally a Māori settlement. The ancestral canoe Tākitimu travelled up …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… By the 1880s Pākehā anthropologists were convinced that Māori and other Polynesian peoples were rapidly losing … H. W. Williams and Elsdon Best. In the early years eminent Māori joined, including Tūreiti Te Heuheu, Hōne Mohi Tāwhai, … Māori, in its early years than at any later stage in its history. From the 1890s to the 1930s the Journal of the …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… She was not only learned in the traditional forms of Māori lore, history and knowledge of genealogy, but was fluent in both … Airini expressed her strong opposition to the sale of Māori land, the Donnellys' methods were not always approved …
Type: Biography
… births in 1986 to 0.8 per 1,000 live births in 2014. The Māori rate was much higher – it also dropped, but in 2014 it … had asthma in the 21st century, with much higher rates for Māori and Pacific children. Obesity Obesity and overweight … social interactions. Exposure to cigarette smoke, a family history of ear infections and spending time in day care are …
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Part of story: Child and youth health
… Kaumātua are elders in Māori society. Male elders are also known as koroua (or koro … considered a kaumātua depends on age, knowledge of tribal history and traditions, and the presence of other potential … see them considered kaumātua at an earlier age. Names for Māori elders The general term for Māori elders is kaumātua, …
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Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… local subjects for an epic of his own, Andersen turned to Māori mythology. Disheartened by the response to his original verse manuscript, he refashioned it as prose; Māori life in Ao-tea , a compendium of traditional lore … led to a commission to compile the mammoth Jubilee history of South Canterbury (1916). The Andersens moved to …
Type: Biography