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… the versatility of practical men. And they marched into history.’ 1 Backblocks hero The secret of New Zealanders’ … of piss.’ 3 The war also saw a full acceptance by both Māori and Pākehā of their joint identity as New Zealanders. This time Waikato Māori enlisted, and while the Māori Battalion was a separate …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… centre. Spurdle developed a keen interest in Whanganui’s history and in Māori culture and lore, and became well known locally for … on historical subjects. She also gave children lessons in Māori poi and stick games. She was the first national …
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… and animals quickly became symbols of New Zealand. The Māori koru design, which was eventually adopted by Pākehā, … $20 banknote and many stamp issues. New Zealand’s reforming history found expression in the portrait of Kate Sheppard, pioneering suffragist, on the $10 banknote. Māori Māori designs were used quite often on 19th-century …
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Part of story: New Zealand identity
… High School. At these schools he was punished for speaking Māori and later came to resent having been forced to regard … his age. He left for service abroad with the second Māori Contingent, and after three years in Egypt and France … of the current member for Western Māori, he related the history of the confiscation grievances of Waikato and …
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… established: New Zealand, Pacific exploration, Scottish history, English literature, John Ruskin, and the fine arts. … intention to form a Milton collection. His collecting of Māori and Pacific artefacts and clothing increased … made an anonymous donation of his substantial collection of Māori and Pacific Islands artefacts, some 500 items, to the …
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… travel accounts, works discussing immigration, or works on Māori or New Zealand’s natural history. As magazines and books began to be published in New … rather than reprinting overseas reviews. Works in Māori In September 1847, the New Zealander published a …
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Part of story: Arts reviewing
… the largest number of industrial disputes in New Zealand’s history. Women and Māori A growing number of New Zealanders had come to view … the public to achieve their demands. Feminists and Māori activists also criticised unions for inadequately …
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Part of story: Unions and employee organisations
… Herald , on 19 January 1828. He was to work among the Māori at the Bay of Islands until June 1834. Yate's tasks were to make a study of the Māori language, and to teach in the mission schools. … mission in the northern island. The earliest published history of the mission, it went through two editions in …
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… Wī Te Tau was the third in a succession of Anglican Māori ministers from the Huata family, their careers spanning most of the history of Christianity in New Zealand. His father, Hēmi , … continued his theological training in the Wairoa–Mōhaka Māori pastorate. He was consecrated deacon in the Tākitimu …
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… girls came to her regularly for tuition, particularly in history. Mary Martin was avid for experience and made three …
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… of librarianship, but rather a branch of the science of history.' Between parliamentary sessions he travelled … and culture' in the New Zealand volume of the Cambridge history of the British Empire (1933), Captain William Hobson … who. Men of note in the country's political and military history, including Maori leaders, and in its economic and …
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… Mt Wellington. The formation of Rangitoto was witnessed by Māori about 600 years ago. Deformation of the land … this period encompasses all of humanity’s recorded history. New Zealand was one of the last land areas in the world to be settled by humans, with the arrival of Māori in about 1250–1300 CE and Europeans from about 1790. …
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Part of story: Geology – overview
… farmed in the district from 1962. There are contemporary Māori rock carvings on a cliff face at Kaiapo Bay, between … town on State Highway 1. Waitahanui is a long-established Māori settlement, with a Ngāti Tūtemohuta marae. Nearby Lake … is the site of many important events in Tūwharetoa tribal history. Waitahanui is also renowned for its trout fishing, …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… 1881, when Paora Tūhaere hosted a pan-national assembly of Māori chiefs at Kohimarama. Nearly 100 years later, in … of that protest raised awareness among New Zealanders of Māori grievances over land issues. A great deal of progress … At one of the most poignant events in Auckland’s recent history, over 15,000 people gathered at Ōkahu Bay at dawn on …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… in New Zealand, where he was able to work with a Rotorua Māori cultural group formed by the Reverend Frederick … results included three short romance stories (two based on Māori legends), shot in Rotorua using a mostly Māori cast. … Reynolds, which featured significant moments in New Zealand history. Coubray went on to shoot Dane Gustav Pauli’s Under …
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Part of story: Feature film
… Iwi regional cultures The cultural life of 19th-century Māori varied for iwi and hapū living in different parts of … cultural life. Hocken built up collections of Pacific and Māori ethnography, which went to the museum in 1891. He … and lectured keenly on New Zealand’s early European settler history. Hodgkins established the Otago Arts Society in …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life
… 66 19th-century New Zealand novels, John White ’s Ancient history of the Maori , over 20 volumes on the discovery and … Several published sophisticated learning materials in Māori and Pacific languages. Educational publishers have …
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Part of story: Publishing
… of New Zealand. Browne received no special instructions on Māori matters, which were not expected to bulk large among … which dominated his future conduct. Relations between Māori and settler in the North Island were already critical. … averted armed conflict altogether, is to ignore the entire history of colonial settlement. There is abundant testimony …
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… the complete guide to New Zealand’s peoples, environment, history, culture and society, include: Current events Te Ara … Fire Services stories. We also updated Te Ara stories about Māori history and experience, including by adding new images … Updated stories include: Kapa haka , Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement , Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest …
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… War, Maaka applied to serve with the 28th New Zealand (Māori) Battalion but was instead employed in November 1939 … where there was a high incidence of syphilis among the Māori population. He was nicknamed 'the Pox Doctor', which … extremely knowledgeable on Māori and particularly Mātaatua history. He gained much of his knowledge from his dealings …
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