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… Hawke’s Bay’s wine country. Locals call it ‘the village’. History Havelock North was founded by the government in the … rest of Havelock North, and had lower qualifications. The Māori population of the Anderson Park (24%) was a big majority of the town’s Māori residents (8% overall). Whakatū Settlement between …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… Jury. Hoani Te Whatahoro became a prolific writer on Māori traditions and customs. He usually acted as a scribe … work in the late 1850s, when a large gathering of Wairarapa Māori came together to discuss land and political questions. … One of the more important of these articles is Downes's 'History of the Ngati Kahu-ngunu', published in sections in …
Type: Biography
… model of museum practice which placed primacy on mātauranga Māori rather than western collecting practices. She carried … kaupapa to a wider stage through leadership roles in the Te Māori exhibition and in the development of the Museum of New … society an old house for the temporary display of local history exhibits, and Mina and Bruce McKenzie were among the …
Type: Biography
… Tidal Creek. Farm life also introduced Finlayson to rural Māori. He stayed with the family of Hone Ngawhika at … contribution to the writing of New Zealand was the Māori stories of his first two collections. They portrayed a … of Education to produce stories on Māori life and history, and on his own childhood. The Māori historical …
Type: Biography
… of Islands, where he purchased several tracts of land from Māori chiefs and built a substantial house on a nine acre … saw unorganised European settlement as destructive of Māori society, and argued that only through systematic … the first subdivision into quarter acre lots in New Zealand history. The post-Treaty of Waitangi era in New Zealand, …
Type: Biography
… Asians Apart from Māori, the other major non-European minority up to 1945 were … to receive old-age pensions from 1898 until 1936. Unlike Māori, they were seen as too culturally and racially …
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Part of story: Ethnic inequalities
… 20th-century wars. But the battles between British and Māori during the 19th century were less often commemorated as founding moments of New Zealand. While Māori remembered them, Pākehā preferred to forget. This … remained important to how New Zealanders understand their history. Second World War The experience of New Zealand …
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Part of story: New Zealand identity
… and had joined forces with Kehu, a Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri Māori. After a fruitless attempt to discover great plains … and spent the winter there before continuing south with new Māori companions. By now Brunner could boast (or write) of … piece of overland exploration in New Zealand's European history. …
Type: Biography
… The arrangement suits her New Zealand subject matter of Māori women gathering kūmara. On her return to New Zealand … purple’ (1949), now held at the Waikato Museum of Art and History. Copeland also painted landscapes wherever she lived … portrait paintings, Copeland had a particular interest in Māori subjects – possibly a result of her early association …
Type: Biography
… examining the language, appearance and traditions of Māori and other Polynesians, decided Māori were related to other Pacific peoples. They convinced … them for their humanity to friends and kin. As with natural history, New Zealand was an important site for Enlightenment …
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Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… are most likely to be living in crowded conditions, and Māori and Pacific Islanders are affected more than other … New Zealand’s households rent rather than own their homes . Māori and Pacific Islanders are more likely to live in …
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Part of story: Society
… and 'one of the worst blots in connection with the history of banking'. Hamilton, who had been appointed …
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… was blocked by rugged mountains, dense forests and the Māori stronghold of Te Rohe Pōtae (the King Country). … Country to the railway. On 15 April 1885 politicians and Māori leaders ceremonially ‘turned the first sod’ of the … of the NIMT was a major landmark in New Zealand’s history. It fostered economic and population growth in the …
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Part of story: Railways
… as Te Iho-o-Kataka, a renowed hīnau tree. Baby milestone Māori had a word for a baby who has just learnt to roll … milk) and whāngai ū (breastfeeding) appear as metaphors in Māori literature and art in a range of ways, from mōteatea …
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Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… iwi, and to Rotorua’s global reputation as a place where Māori performance could be enjoyed. Her experiences signify … performance to New Zealand’s modern image, and how central Māori performers were in communicating it to the world. … sights. When they visited the American Museum of Natural History to evaluate Māori artefacts, Maata’s stepfather …
Type: Biography
… life as Eva Rickard, was an influential figure in the Māori land rights movement from the 1970s to the 1990s. She … return of Te Kōpua to her people, and fought for increased Māori representation in Parliament and a variety of other … and forced both Māori and Pākehā to confront their shared history. She was a visionary with the courage to see a …
Type: Biography
… the ancient whare wananga at Rūātoki, where he was taught Māori religion, genealogies and customs. He also developed a … faction fought faction, leading to intervention by the Māori Land Court. During this period Te Kani was variously a … author William Greenwood for his book The upraised hand , a history of the Ringatū church, and provided its whakapapa …
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… McColl, for the Presbyterian ministry. Donald studied history, literature and divinity until 1838 when he sailed … trader John McLeod. Here he acquired a good knowledge of Māori, perhaps helped by his being already bilingual in … had to mediate in a diverse range of conflicts between Māori and settler, notably those caused by the damaging of …
Type: Biography
… although in their 60s they adopted and educated a Māori child, Wiremu Pōkiha Omahura. Six weeks after their … flimsy sophistry' and adopted the legal argument that the Māori had rights only to the land which they inhabited and … of Wairarapa and Nelson are of real significance in the art history of the country. They are striking, romantic …
Type: Biography
… Hikawera became dedicated to this work. He learned Tūhoe history from Paitini Wī Tāpeka, and Haniko Te Ao and others … whakapapa, and through his spiritual and traditional Māori knowledge, he became the acknowledged guardian of the … of the principal speakers. Those he nurtured on traditional history, ancient waiata, chants and powerful incantations …
Type: Biography