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… was central to the reappraisal of New Zealand’s colonial history which began in the 1970s. In his landmark book A … forcefully that the Crown had committed injustices against Māori under the terms of Te Tiriti o Waitangi which had a lasting and detrimental impact on Māori communities. Ward became a key figure in the …
Type: Biography
… is remarkable for its variety of landscapes. It has a long history of Māori habitation, and sealers and whalers also lived there …
Type: Story Front
… man, John White also mixed with other settlers and the Māori community. White was a short man, 5 feet and 6½ … century. This work, White claimed, led him to collect Māori song poetry. He had very soon accumulated several … early 1879 as the compiler and writer of an official Māori history. The task took over 10 years, from 10 April 1879 to …
Type: Biography
… it vary widely in terms of age, employment, health and life history. Sometimes people between 65 and 80 are referred to … as European. This is projected to fall to 77% by 2038. Few Māori are over 65 years – 32,200 in 2013. Although Māori were 15% of the total population, only 6% of all …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Older people
… gained distinction as a scholar of British and New Zealand history and was part of a tradition of poet-historians, with … of new thesis research, contained significant chapters on Māori as well as Pākehā experience and was, in itself, a … complex computer and data entry systems, and liaise with Māori and other community groups. He had to establish …
Type: Biography
… Many Wairarapa towns have small history museums, and antique and craft shops. Museums … as kaitiaki (guardian) to a growing collection of taonga (Māori treasures), including several cloaks. In 2006 it … Archaeologists have found some 250 sites relating to early Māori settlement, including rectangular storage pits near …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wairarapa region
… Lawson, who spent six months as a teacher at Mangamāunu Māori school, just north of Kaikōura, in 1897. A woman … and sometimes, a boat chugging to a mussel farm.’ 2 Local history There are local histories of all Marlborough’s … Ron Crosby has written extensively on 19th-century Māori history and New Zealand military history. Hilary and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough region
… The canoe (waka in Māori) traditions or stories describe the arrival in New Zealand of Māori ancestors from a place most often called Hawaiki. They … tohunga, Moihi Te Mātorohanga and Nēpia Pōhūhū. History or mystery: interpreting traditions The meaning of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Canoe traditions
… Substantial areas of Māori land were confiscated by the government after the New … sent a memorandum to Governor George Grey proposing that Māori in a ‘state of rebellion’ have their lands confiscated … published a paper in 1863 in which he argued that the history of Ireland showed ‘how little is to be effected …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… Māori land tenure and Pākehā law Māori land tenure includes complex overlapping rights over … with government practice over the course of New Zealand history. Alienation of Māori land Māori lost land to the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… during the years she lived in Dunedin. Hone Tuwhare, a Māori poet from the northern North Island, was associated … from 1972, is the liveliest of a number of local papers. History The Otago Museum was established in 1868 and moved … The welcome of strangers , on the ethnography of southern Māori; The cyclopedia of Otago and Southland ; and Southern …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Otago region
… Apirana Ngata The founder of the study of Māori language and culture at university level was Apirana Ngata. The first Māori graduate of a New Zealand university (in 1893), Ngata … Nga mahi a ng a t upuna and Ng a mo teatea, White’s Ancient history of the Maori, a range of Māori newspapers and the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… voices In the years after the Second World War, in remote Māori primary schools in the East Cape, an experiment was … insist on independence as a watch-word for both women and Māori. Trail-blazing activist Sonja Davies somehow found … ( Wrestling with the angel , 2000) and his popular Penguin History of New Zealand (2003). An updated edition of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Non-fiction
… give a faithful record of early Whanganui and some of its Māori and European inhabitants. Chromolithography was … opened in 2008. Historians A rich source of Whanganui history from the 1840s to 1870s is found in the Reverend … W. Downes’s Old Whanganui (1915) is a valuable resource on Māori history and on European settlement until 1847. Downes …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui region
… (established in 1883), which is particularly notable for Māori manuscripts the Hocken Collections at the University … New Zealand archives amalgamated in 2014) and the Oral History and Sound collection at the Alexander Turnbull … research required for Treaty of Waitangi negotiations, some Māori tribal authorities have also established their own …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Archives
… as an essential step in furthering his study into Tainui history – an interest ignited through his involvement with … Maori chronology, and the evaluation of Maori tradition as history, and argued that tribal traditions should be … which he typed up himself. In 1973 he completed a family history that traced his roots back to the twelfth century. …
Type: Biography
… their past. Stories of hard-working pioneer settlers and Māori princesses in Pākehā family histories sit alongside stories of injustice and loss of land in Māori memories of the same places and times. Letters and … As the genealogy (family tree) is collated, the family history can be researched, the stories discovered and told. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… and Te Aute College in Hawke’s Bay, where he excelled in Māori and piano. At a very young age he became interested in Māori tradition through his great-aunt, Taihape Rimitiriu Te … and began to impart his knowledge to him. This included the history of Ngā Rauru, Taranaki and Whanganui, waiata, …
Type: Biography
… James West Stack, born on 27 March 1835 in a tent in a Māori pā at Pūriri in the Thames district, New Zealand, was … to snare birds and catch eels and grew up familiar with the Māori world, although conscious that he himself belonged to … Māori subjects. His South Island Maoris: a sketch of their history and legendary lore (1898) was based on a paper …
Type: Biography
… part of his education, especially in literature and history, came from his father, who was a voracious reader. … husband, Tūmōkai Kātipa, and became deeply interested in Māori affairs and Māori–Pākehā relations. The full-page feature on the …
Type: Biography