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… Largest centre of Marlborough, in Māori called Waiharakeke, with a 2013 population of 24,183, … Maryland strove in the early days of America.’ 1 Early history Blenheim was established in the 1850s as ‘the … In that year 11% of Blenheim’s population identified as Māori. The lower Wairau is particularly associated with …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… of the rare Castlepoint daisy ( Brachyglottis compactus ). History In Māori tradition, Castlepoint was visited by Kupe, the great … Marine Hotel fell asleep while sitting next to an elderly Māori woman, also asleep. The pair woke to find themselves …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… here to die when he was 24.’ 1 Protected areas and natural history The region has three national parks – Abel Tasman … is also found in western Golden Bay. Whau, which provided Māori with light wood for net floats, grows in frost-free … Pākehā settlement, forest grew to the shore, although Māori had burnt off areas in the Waimea Plains and Motueka …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… Zealand embark on the longest journey of migration in human history. In the 19th century this voyage was made by ship. … migrate. The memory of Hawaiki may be stronger for many Māori than the memory of a European or other place of origin is for most non-Māori New Zealanders, but all share stories of a journey …
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Part of story: The voyage out
… stay is referred to as a ‘day trip’. Early tramping Māori were the country’s first trampers, although they made … geologists and prospectors. In many places they followed Māori paths. European pioneers who needed to get somewhere … warmth. For those interested in the landscape and natural history, tramping is the only way to see vast swathes of New …
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Part of story: Tramping
… the help of the Popoto tohunga Toenga Pou, he learned the Māori language, together with such skills as the use of the … exercised by the chiefs. Considering his ability to speak Māori, his willingness to lead from the front, and his … memoirs in these years, together with a fanciful 'Māori history' of the wars (published in T. W. Gudgeon 's The …
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… the Three Kings Native Institution, a boarding school for Māori children. Fluent in Māori, English and French, she became an assistant teacher … Waikato. Hēni Te Kiri Karamū has been remembered in written history primarily for her involvement in the battle at …
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… patron. His ground-breaking health surveys in Pākehā and Māori communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and in Cook … how doctors could advocate social justice and global peace. Māori and Pacific epidemiology Prior was appointed director … roots of Prior’s ‘Pacific consciousness’ lay in his family history and his research. 4 In 1976 he learned of the police …
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… a part in some of the most traumatic events of Ngāti Awa history. The Hauhau movement reached the Bay of Plenty and … was the guest of honour. Mātaatua has had a chequered history. It has been asserted that it was offered as a gift … in the meeting house. That two of the greatest works of a Māori artist should have survived into the present time is …
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… Avis’s development as a writer and illustrator of natural history fantasy. From 1915 Avis was a pupil at St Cuthbert’s … and birds. In the same book she incorporated traditional Māori knowledge on making the sail for a canoe. To ensure …
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… nation. The current flag does not convey New Zealand’s Māori heritage or acknowledge its multi-cultural society. It … alternative. Read more about the Flag referenda on NZ History . …
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Part of story: Flags
… He reached adulthood during a turbulent period in the Maori history of the South Island. In the eighteenth century Ngāi …
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… conventions, hosted in New Zealand in 1988, 1997 and 2006. History During exploration of remote parts of Nelson … sour, infertile soils, locally called pākihi (from a Māori word that originally meant open country). Hydraulic …
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Part of story: West Coast places
… the 1840s when war broke out in the Bay of Islands between Māori factions and British troops. For a while the area … of Whangārei district in 1989. A museum records its early history. …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Peninsula, and he wrote an Otago Witness column, 'Natural history notes for the young' by 'Uncle David', during the … and Elfrida. She devoted much of her time to training Māori women in child care, hygiene and health. It was Selina … ideas taken from Freemasonry. Cossgrove was interested in Māori culture, and his book Ngā toro tūrehu: the fairy …
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… was about 650 miles. He also explored Wairarapa with a Māori whose identity is unknown, and briefly considered … that settlement should not be made in the vicinity of any Māori cultivations. On 10 February 1843 William sailed for … of the Deans brothers should always occupy a place in the history of Canterbury. …
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… Walter Brodie, an early resident of Auckland, described Māori reading the first Māori-language newspaper, Te Karere o Niu Tireni, produced … in 1847. He left 10 years later and wrote the first major history of New Zealand, including this observation on its …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… Ngati (1987) was the first feature made principally by Māori and the world’s first feature made by an indigenous … (1988) was the first feature directed and written by a Māori woman and the first from an entirely Māori … the more surprising international hits in New Zealand movie history is Lincoln county incident (1980). This comedy …
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Part of story: Feature film
… the matters they were examining, which went to the roots of Māori cosmogony. He again emphasised that the teaching must … of the Tāne-nui-a-rangi books in the preparation of The Māori , Māori religion and mythology and other works. It is clear …
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… was to reveal that handiwork. The artist’s gospel ‘A history of landscape art and its study in New Zealand’, a … Gnarled trees were a trademark. Frequently in New Zealand Māori figures added a picturesque element to paintings in … J. B. C. Hoyte’s deep-blue landscapes often have a Māori spectator in the foreground. In the landscape …
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Part of story: Painting