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… origins Until the arrival of Europeans in the late 1700s, Māori held a world view that originated in their Polynesian …
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Part of story: Te Ao Mārama – the natural world
… means the visit will not appear in the computer’s search history. Other websites have a ‘quick exit’ button which … violence Violence within whānau is a major concern in Māori communities. While family violence was apparently unknown before European settlement, Māori men are now five times as likely to commit homicide as …
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Part of story: Family violence
… of a secure and happy family she learned about the history and traditions of her people. She also saw the town … the end of 1881 Hēni Materoa Carroll (who became known to Māori as Hēni Kara) and her husband returned to Gisborne, … chose not to go to Wellington when Carroll won the Eastern Māori parliamentary seat in 1887. She was, however, always …
Type: Biography
… (unity of purpose), which aimed to achieve greater Māori control of Māori affairs. He sought these goals while following the … land to belong to the tribe. He left two written accounts: 'History of the Ngāti Whātua tribes' (held in the Auckland …
Type: Biography
… well-tended gardens, is the most impressive. The art and history museum Aratoi has helped foster a cultural … which makes flavouring essences and powdered drinks. History Masterton was founded in 1854 by the Small Farms … compared to the national figure (74%), but also a higher Māori population (19.7%, compared to 14.9% nationally). …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… Zealand Institute, Sladden contributed articles on natural history to the New Zealand Journal of Science and … led to the establishment of a western Bay of Plenty history collection and New Zealand Room, of which the …
Type: Biography
… French Street after the British general John French. History Martinborough began in 1870 as the township of Wharekaka, close to the Māori settlement of Waihenga. In its first decade churches, … accommodation became key industries. Unlike in other towns, Māori retained a significant presence. Residents included …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… homage to some of the people killed during a raid by the Māori prophet Te Kooti in 1868, as well as a number of the … Pākehā settlers. Retribution at Matawhero Around 50–55 Māori and Europeans of all ages were killed during Te … Gisborne and around the East Cape). Rich in early-European history, Matawhero is home to the oldest building in the …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… magazine-style programme Queer n ation ran for 10 years. Māori Television’s Takatā pui was reportedly the world’s … an indigenous network. Takatā pui explored aspects of gay Māori history, as well as contemporary experience. Social life The …
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Part of story: Gay men’s lives
… cities and towns around New Zealand, including 12 kaupapa Māori refuges, two Pacific refuges and one Asian refuge. In … Amendment Act 1977, a rape complainant’s past sexual history became inadmissible as evidence. Direct action … furious manager. Te Kākano o te Whānau, which represents Māori rape crisis services, was formed in 1985; the National …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… until 2020. In 2017 Harete Hipango became the first Māori MP for Whanganui. In 2020 she lost the seat to Labour’s Steph Lewis Māori electorates The region was in the Western Māori electorate from 1867 to 1996, and has been in Te Tai …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… government headed by Jacinda Ardern took office in 2017. Māori in the 20th century Most Māori continued to live in remote rural communities until the Second World War . But Māori society was dynamic. The Kotahitanga movement of the …
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Part of story: History
… that moa had disappeared long before the arrival of Māori. Eventually McKay’s paper ‘On the identity of the … and disappeared with the moa about 10,000 BCE, long before Māori, a Neolithic people, arrived. However, this was … Arthur S. Thomson accepted this theory in the first history of New Zealand. Darwinism gave the argument added …
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Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… by infighting and factional rivalry during its 18-year history. Conflict often arose because of personal grievances and competition to purchase Māori land, rather than differences over government … Frederick Sutton, was notorious for the way he obtained Māori land. He gave Māori extensive credit on goods at his …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… was responsible for Te Whāiti's education in tribal history, and he became the guardian of his interests … for approximately £10,000. Some of the station was still in Māori ownership at this time, and had been leased by … activities on the station. Te Whāiti was one of the few Māori engaged in buying land, and his purchase and operation …
Type: Biography
… of the colony of New Zealand. He also showed 75 groups of Māori items, which included hei tiki (neck ornaments) and … his entire collection of 70 Gottfried Lindauer portraits of Māori to the city of Auckland in 1915. Publisher A. H. Reed … Shaw of Auckland and Pat Lawlor of Wellington. Collecting history For some 60 years from the early 20th century Fred …
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Part of story: Collecting
… Quay, in which he held services in English, Gaelic and Māori. McFarlane’s concerns about the treatment of Māori by settlers found little support and, with his health … week-evening lecture on Astronomy, Geology, Natural History or other secular subject of popular and instructive …
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Part of story: Presbyterian Church
… Perle Hera Rākapa Taiaroa, one of the first fully qualified Māori dental nurses. Born at Ōtākou, she also was of Ngāi … future and also shared a passion for Ngāi Tahu issues and history. Perle had learned whakapapa as a child and for many … Women’s Association, president of the Pōneke branch of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and vice president and …
Type: Biography
… more personal views and a greater awareness of New Zealand history, variously exemplified in the work of Robin … in the area of giving a voice to minorities such as Māori, women, gays and the disabled, in the work of Fiona … has shown up most potently in the work of a new wave of Māori photographers, including Natalie Robertson, Aimee Te …
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Part of story: Photography
… had control of Waikato, but Rewi Maniapoto led further Māori resistance. A force of 300 Māori built a pā at Ōrākau. It was besieged by nearly 1,500 … m), Pukeatua (752 m) and Te Ākatārere (727m) – and a long history of settlement. The first inhabitants, Ngāti …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato places