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… or its environs. At first he squatted on a piece of Māori land on the banks of the Waikato River, and ran sheep … By 1856 Fenton had concluded that relationships between Māori and Pākehā were at a watershed. He was impressed by … a lecture he had given that year, Suggestions for a history of the origin and migrations of the Māori people , …
Type: Biography
… the proposal to install Te Wherowhero of Ngāti Mahuta as Māori king was discussed, Te Wheoro spoke in favour of the … Fenton was recalled in 1858. He attended the conference of Māori leaders at Kohimarama in 1860, and spoke strongly and … major informants for his six volume compilation The ancient history of the Māori (Wellington, 1887–90). In January 1890 …
Type: Biography
… Throughout most of New Zealand’s musical history there have been attempts at composing for opera as … successes in Australia and Britain did not materialise. The Māori Opera Company Clergyman and first bishop of Aotearoa, … Bennett was also an accomplished musician, and formed the Māori Opera Company at Rotorua in the early 20th century. It …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… of New Plymouth, with a 2013 population of 6,483. History Waitara has been settled for hundreds of years. Some … The port was decommissioned in 1941. The first Taranaki Māori festival was held in Waitara in November 2009, … People In 2013, 39.9% of Waitara residents identified as Māori, compared with 17.4% regionally and 14.9% nationally. …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… historical work of this generation was Keith Sinclair ’s A history of New Zealand (1959). Its epilogue, ‘The search for … as observed by the author for over half a century. Both Māori and Pākehā have a place in the story of this sheep … be said to have invented the discipline of environmental history and Tutira is an epic masterpiece of non-fiction …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… themselves, were gratefully cooked up by the lucky finder. Māori ate freshly stranded whales and dolphins, and used their bones for carving. In some areas, remains of old Māori coastal settlements are uncovered by erosive waves or … encased in netting, are especially prized. Signs of history What washes up has changed over time. From the …
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Part of story: Beachcombing
… that formed the upper Te Maari crater, named after a Māori chieftainess. Upper Te Maari erupted again in 1896–97, … have been witnessed only in 1870, 1949 and 1954. In 1867, Māori people told the scientist and explorer James Hector … since 1975 – the longest break in activity in its recorded history. Its steam vents have temporarily cooled, suggesting …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… History The CBD was part of a central wedge of the isthmus … Stream and soon became the heart of the CBD. The role of Māori in the founding of Auckland is celebrated in Molly …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… (1843) gave an account of the fauna, flora, landscape and Māori inhabitants of New Zealand. Dieffenbach was keen to do … described by Richard Owen, director of the Natural History Museum in London. When Mantell visited London in …
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Part of story: Geological exploration
… than as an oppressive entity. Pākehā New Zealanders have no history of rebellion, either against British rule or against …
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Part of story: Political values
… Gay liberation The 1970s were a watershed in the history of lesbian and gay lives in New Zealand. Following … 1972 after protests by Auckland lesbians and gay men when Māori lesbian activist Ngahuia Te Awekotuku was refused a …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives
… and 10 children. Mitchell's Victoria Cross had a curious history. It was left inside his sea-chest, which was lost in …
Type: Biography
… particular habitat requirements. Kawekaweau in Marseille Māori call reptiles ngārara – a term that includes tuatara, … of a giant forest lizard, the kawekaweau. In the Natural History Museum in Marseille, France, there is an unlabelled, …
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Part of story: Lizards
… the case where it had bought adjoining dry land from Māori. A fee simple grant (permanent and absolute ownership) … the introduced common law in New Zealand’s early colonial history recognised the Crown as the owner of the foreshore …
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Part of story: Law of the foreshore and seabed
… The history of conservation in New Zealand charts how people … and to get the population on it.’ 2 Human impact First Māori and then European settlers changed the environment. …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… second. This level of timekeeping has evolved during a long history. Traditional time For people in pre-industrial … waning of the moon told months. Such markers were used by Māori in New Zealand. In Europe other markers also evolved. …
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Part of story: Timekeeping
… embellished with complicated geometric patterns, including Māori iconography, to make them less vulnerable to … of an entirely new coinage … is a rare moment in history … and it is the occasion for New Zealand to … in 1967. The main design featured a kiwi and a taiaha (Māori spear) crossed with a black rod (a staff symbolising a …
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Part of story: Coins and banknotes
… of international capitalist trade dates back centuries. Its history of use in New Zealand follows similar paths to that … the early 1850s around 1.1 kilograms per person, including Māori, were being smoked each year. Consumption rose fast in … ), and an array of pouches, pipe racks and smoking hats. Māori smoking Māori were introduced to the habit by whalers, …
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Part of story: Smoking
… to ethnicity. A study in the 1990s found that many Māori and Pacific households shared family income with wider … of mouth or by asking at shops in an area. Homes with a history Name-dropping in ‘to let’ ads was standard in the … that time spent looking at the house would not be wasted. Māori, whether living on ancestral land or not, found it …
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Part of story: Household management
… would be tarnished by association with the Hall ministry's Māori policy which alarmed him. He was soon seeking a … in New Zealand. The prophet Te Whiti-o-Rongomai 's thriving Māori settlement at Parihaka in Taranaki lay on land … critical of Bryce which was published in Rusden's History of New Zealand (1883). During Bryce's libel case …
Type: Biography