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… and influential European racial stereotype was the ‘Aryan Māori’. The Aryan myth claimed that thousands of years ago, … Edward Tregear’s The AryanMaori (1885), which claimed that Māori were of pure Aryan descent and that the British … New Zealand with an instant culture – a romantic prehistory, distinctive symbols and a landscape already …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… Early Māori-language broadcasts Although radio broadcasting in Aotearoa New Zealand began in 1921, the Māori language was not heard on air with any regularity … Day, 6 February 1928, an elaborate pageant of Māori history, song and story was broadcast by all four national …
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Part of story: Māori radio – reo irirangi
… Process of learning In traditional Māori society, all important aspects of life had systems of … waiata (songs), whakataukī (proverbs), kōrero tawhito (history), pūrākau (stories) and whakapapa (genealogy) were important educative tools for transmitting an iwi’s history, values and models of behaviour. Whare wānanga The …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… Māori and overseas wars Māori have taken part in every international theatre of war … elders making the young people read aloud to them. On marae Māori debated the justification for each war, considering … Empire. It was little wonder that Māori, with their own history of warfare, should take a deep interest in the …
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Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… Tribal knowledge of whales Māori have a long association with whales. While whales … Whales in Māori tradition …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… Artillery Band. In February 1878 sheet music was published. Māori translation The following month the premier, Sir … judge of the Native Land Court, to translate the words into Māori. Smith’s translation, ‘Aotearoa’, appeared in Otago … anthem. An authoritative anthem Different versions of the Māori translation of ‘God defend New Zealand’ have been …
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Part of story: National anthems
… saw the first gifting of taonga (ancestral treasures) by Māori to Europeans. These taonga left an ancient Pacific … and collectors in order to acquire artefacts from overseas. Māori taonga eventually ended up in the collections of … compared, as examples of ethnography, ethnology or natural history. Archaeology offered yet another new label to …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… Trickster Māori The large Ngāti Porou tribe, based on the east coast … a reputation for playing tricks, especially against non-Māori. A history of the tribe records that one elderly Ngāti Porou … Māori humour in the 20th century …
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Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata
… useful volumes, especially Brett’s colonists’ guide (1883). Māori traditions Māori were a prime subject of interest to colonials. During … in 1879 appointed by the government to prepare an official history of Māori. Six bilingual volumes appeared from the … Early publishing for Pākehā and Māori …
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Part of story: Publishing
… Balancing work and leisure Māori, like other peoples, sought a balance between work and … needed to produce sufficient food. In the early years of Māori settlement in New Zealand there would have been … part of their education: they learned family and tribal history, mythology and folklore from an early age, and this …
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Part of story: Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia
… In traditional Māori society, children were seen as belonging to, and being … Ngāti Kahungunu chief Te Whatuiāpiti. Children indulged Māori children were, by and large, cherished and indulged. … on his visit to the Bay of Islands in 1772, remarked of Māori: ‘They seemed to be good mothers and showed affection …
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Part of story: Ngā tamariki
… New directions after Te Māori The years immediately following the Te Māori exhibition saw an increase in Māori involvement in the … Paora Tapsell, curator at the Rotorua Museum of Art and History, in 1990 Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, first curator Māori … Increasing Māori involvement in museums, 1987 to 2000 …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… Māori views The era of growth in national parks was followed by a period of turmoil. Māori, whose opinions had been largely overlooked as parks … painting showed the region as Tūhoe land, steeped in Tūhoe history. In 1997 it was taken from the visitor centre in …
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Part of story: National parks
… Te Ika a Maui Players The rise of Māori political activism from the mid-1970s powered a wave of activity in Māori theatre. The first theatre company set up and run by … stories based on individuals and incidents in Māori history. Te Ohu Whakaari went on to produce plays written by …
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Part of story: Māori theatre – te whare tapere hōu
… Māori oral tradition From 1840 there were many collectors of Māori oral traditions, but these accounts did not agree on a … encounter with Māori. The man who gave New Zealand such a history was S. Percy Smith, surveyor-general and co-founder … 1840s–early 20th century: Māori tradition and the Great Fleet …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… International developments in history and local concerns about identity heightened the … of oral histories opened up new areas of study, such as Māori women or people’s experiences of the First World War. … frameworks began to be used in examining history. Māori history The Māori protest movement and the demands of …
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Part of story: History and historians
… The East Coast was where Māori and Europeans first met on shore, at the site of … This isolated region is known for its long and rich Māori history and heritage, its excellent surf beaches and …
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… They work in diverse styles, influenced by the environment, history, politics and Māori and Pacific cultures. …
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… Pākehā genealogies share similar structural forms to Māori whakapapa. But there are significant differences. Whakapapa are the basis of the traditional Māori world view. The human genealogy in whakapapa may be … computers in databases, though they may also include oral history. Family histories Genealogies are often accompanied …
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Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… the house of Ngāpuhi, a people who played a central role in Māori history. …
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