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… First market gardens Māori had extensive gardens in New Zealand and became the … tonnes of potatoes to Sydney in the 1830s. In the 1840s Māori in the North Island also grew maize, tobacco, wheat, … established their own vegetable gardens from the 1840s as Māori began to lose fertile lands into European ownership. …
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Part of story: Market gardens and production nurseries
… Māori duck-hunting Native ducks – paradise shelducks … – were an important source of food and feathers for Māori. Flightless fledglings and moulting adults were hunted … wetland vegetation where they were easily caught or snared. Māori had a closed season (rāhui) for trapping and snaring …
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Part of story: Duck shooting
… hunt or trap them for food. Birds held a central place in Māori culture, and many species were thought to foretell the … Zealand Institute , and Buller published two editions of A history of the birds of New Zealand . Today, most native … New Zealand’s birdwatching history …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… a popular pastime for those with access to a public table. Māori and billiards Māori soon adopted billiards, a practice some Pākehā saw as … Billiards and its history …
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Part of story: Billiards, snooker, pool and darts
… New Zealand waters, the reefs at Caroline Bay were used (as Māori used them) for shelter on an otherwise inhospitable … Bay and Mutumutu Point. Te Huruhuru’s hills In 1849, the Māori chief Te Huruhuru told surveyor Charles Torlesse that … Early European history …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… (1960–80), New Zealand television’s potential to achieve a Māori presence and voice was stifled. The overwhelming … perspectives of the programmes that were produced. When Māori did appear, it was usually as entertainers. Māori … a profile to Māori language, culture, custom, society and history that was unprecedented in television. A second …
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Part of story: Television
… his second voyage to New Zealand, James Cook gave hens to Māori in both the North and South islands. Missionaries in … History and early developments …
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Part of story: Poultry industry
… 4.2% having no religion; the least devout were Cook Island Māori, 28.8% of whom said that they had no religion. … History of Pacific churches …
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Part of story: Pacific churches in New Zealand
… In the 2000s the work of Māori sculptors receives considerable attention. It is inaccurate, though, to refer to ‘Māori sculpture’. Like the sculptors of European origin, … OE’ (2006). The works reference words, ideas, jokes, art history and critical theory, as well as Māori and Pacific …
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Part of story: Sculpture and installation art
… First Māori magazines Māori magazines started in the 1950s. Since this was a time … the arts and the language. There are accounts of tribal history, genealogies, songs and biographies of chiefs. All … Māori magazines …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… remained a largely middle-class game. There were few Māori players and opposition to the suggestion that women … Early history to 1894 …
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Part of story: Cricket
… of politically inspired 20th-century initiatives to revive Māori communities and cultural traditions. This explains why since the 1970s Māori self-determination has been associated with this style … Zealand exhibition, Last, Loneliest, Loveliest. A 100-year history of New Zealand’s architecture was on display, …
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Part of story: Māori architecture – whare Māori
… Discovery and migration New Zealand has a shorter human history than almost any other country. The date of first … the first small groups arrived from Polynesia. Now known as Māori , these tribes did not identify themselves by a … of Europeans when, to mark their distinctiveness the name Māori, meaning ‘ordinary’, came into use. The Lapita pottery …
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Part of story: History
… European settlement to the present day, there have been Māori individuals who have composed music – whether … using introduced music styles and influences. Traditional Māori composers These individuals include traditional … te reo Māori (the Māori language), deeply reflecting Māori history and experiences. Their musical language makes great …
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Part of story: Māori composers – ngā kaitito waiata
… In Rotorua especially, Māori interaction with Europeans has differed from that in … of the country. In other areas, contact was mainly through Māori doing seasonal work for Pākehā farmers, but in Rotorua … (1938). John Te Herekiekie Grace published Tuwharetoa , a history of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, in 1959. The Pākehā historian …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… Kāuta humour ‘Any time Māori get together, they’ll want to make each other laugh,’ … presented the television programme Te k ā uta , an informal Māori-language chat show. The programme is set in an … The subjects discussed on Te kā uta range from traditional history and customs to personal memories and opinions, but …
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Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata
… Pākehā writers on Māori topics Roderick Finlayson developed close relationships with Māori in the Bay of Plenty while working as a farm labourer … The m atriarch (1986) traverses five generations of Māori history under colonisation; The w hale r ider (1987), about …
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Part of story: Fiction
… World War with Katherine Mansfield , an expatriate writer. Māori fiction of any description did not appear until the 1950s, a generation later. Foundations Māori literature was traditionally transmitted orally. … century with missionary ethnographies and collections of Māori myth. Māori contributed to the ethnographies written …
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Part of story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki
… Useful animals On arrival in New Zealand, both Māori and Europeans needed domestic and wild animals for survival, rather than as pets. Māori brought with them kurī (Polynesian dogs) and kiore … rodent pests and dogs to assist with sheep farming. Both Māori and Europeans hunted native birds and marine mammals …
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Part of story: Pets
… and some of the tribes of the Te Arawa confederation. The history of the bay, from the arrival of canoe voyagers from … years ago, is recorded in place names and traditions. The Māori name for the Bay of Plenty is Te Moana a Toi (the sea … Bay. Subsequently, strategic marriages interlinked the Māori people of Tauranga. Landmarks Whakaari (White Island) …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region