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… quality has given Richmond's work a valued place in the history of New Zealand painting. Her subject matter was of …
Type: Biography
… 1998 Samoan Sports Awards were established, following the Māori Sports Awards (which began in 1991), and were … Richie McCaw, was the fastest-selling book in New Zealand history. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sport and the nation
… the first professor in Classics) it was only to substitute history and political economy. Rather short in stature with … (1903). His scholarly investigations into the flora, history, art and anthropology of the countries of the … Indies (Indonesia) and the origins and ethnology of the Māori and Polynesian people, he published more than 20 …
Type: Biography
… was challenging the authority of the state and encouraging Māori to refuse to participate in the war effort. Cullen … Cullen later, unavailingly, hounded some of the resistant Māori and their lawyers with 'his usual vindictiveness' and … of the most controversial police leaders in New Zealand's history. …
Type: Biography
… North America. However, it also overlooked long-established Māori names for these features. Canterbury Museum and … every honour & recompense for your share in the Natural History of your fair islands’. 2 The Glenmark swamp … director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Excavation of early Māori sites under his supervision led to important …
Type: Biography
… more generally valued some decades later. He used te reo Māori in his interactions with his students at a time when … policy actively discouraged it, and explored te ao Māori through history, language and art. He regularly invited kaumātua to …
Type: Biography
… would go on to higher education. A fluent speaker of te reo Māori, he introduced his daughter to the Māori language. Although she was not confident about … Justice Dame Sian Elias noted her special place in the history of the law in New Zealand and her importance as a …
Type: Biography
… criticism to make Christianity appear incredible, of history to depict the church as an enemy of freedom and … government's land policy, including its huge purchases of Māori land. He called for a wide range of humanitarian …
Type: Biography
… the first strike by sworn police personnel in the colony's history, and McDonogh was humiliated, the more so when the …
Type: Biography
… Crown would resume all the land in dispute, paying those Māori who could prove their claims, and that it would mark … and kept his distance from those he saw as careless of Māori rights. Matters came to a head in March 1859, when Te … Te Rangitāke: it acknowledged his importance in New Zealand history but described him as 'the turbulent chief to whom …
Type: Biography
… Waitematā Harbour. On this island, which they bought from Māori owners for a few goods, they waited, confident that … they conducted their business as general merchants (with Māori trade particularly profitable), auctioneers, shipping … followed by the largest funeral cortège in Auckland's history. …
Type: Biography
… New Plymouth and Northland, where in 1953 he joined the Māori Education Service. Rowling was restless and needed … 42, Rowling became the youngest president in Labour Party history. He used his position to modernise the party … that might have changed the course of New Zealand political history by denying power to the rapidly-rising National …
Type: Biography
… an unlit alley. McKeefry’s lifelong interest in New Zealand history, and particularly the beginnings of the church in …
Type: Biography
… ‘Pōkarekare ana / I had a squashed banana’ (based on a Māori love song) was a common playground refrain still heard …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Childhood
… in languages made possible some close friendships with Māori. Joseph went to Tauranga District High School and Te … He viewed New Zealand as a new country despite its long Māori history, making the country itself ‘one of the important …
Type: Biography
… down the West Coast as far as the Arahura River. Two Māori, Kehu and Tau, guided them, and it is clear that had it not been for Māori hospitality en route, the party would have starved … tone. Charles Heaphy has a secure place in New Zealand art history; in his extended career as a public official his …
Type: Biography
… their friend, Vernon John Tupara (Jack) Roberts (of Waikato Māori descent), manufactured the rest of the parts at Leo’s … bishop and aviation enthusiast, Henry Cleary , to isolated Māori communities in his Auckland diocese. These …
Type: Biography
… to be with her mother for Colin’s birth. He attended Māori Hill School, but an informal education in art was to … There were also small black landscapes and paintings with Māori or religious connections. These were interrupted by … same decade, in a number of works McCahon drew on Māori history and tradition, as in the ‘Parihaka triptych’, ‘The …
Type: Biography
… and the number rose to 55 with the addition of two Rātana Māori members. Nash became minister of finance, customs, … a team to tour South Africa that excluded all players of Māori descent. The result was one of the biggest public protests in New Zealand's history, but Nash refused to intervene and eventually …
Type: Biography
… world, failed to see that his position was being eroded by history. As parliamentary leader Harry Holland drove himself … enabled him to build a massive personal library of the history and literature of social reform. Nor did he inhabit … attack while attending the burial of Te Rata Mahuta , the Māori King. He was survived by his wife, five sons and two …
Type: Biography