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… urging that places and objects significant in New Zealand history should be kept for future generations. Historic … (later the National Museum) began systematically collecting Māori artefacts from 1903, and in the 1920s and 1930s it and … also expanded collections of objects relating to both Māori and Pākehā history. Most identifying and classifying …
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Part of story: Public history
… how New Zealanders understood themselves and their history. A prominent poet and New Zealand’s most important … argument, stressing the importance of the environment and Māori in shaping New Zealand and New Zealanders. This … articulated concerns about political claims made by some Māori which he felt lacked solid historical grounding, and …
Type: Biography
… new lands on the map. Salmond was just as interested in the Māori who discovered Cook, and in the beach as a zone of … that day and two days later, when they first encountered Māori, might be regarded as a starting-point for non-fiction … the migration of Māori to these islands within a larger history of Polynesians that could be traced back to India, …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… 32% of the population; by 2001 this had dropped to 23%. The Māori population is younger than the New Zealand population as a whole. Only 4% of Māori were aged 65 and over in 2006, compared to 12% … They share these characteristics, which have their roots in history, with Pacific Islanders. Race relations Until the …
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Part of story: Society
… was engaged in facilitating forced surveys and sales of Māori land. Best's company, based at Pungarehu, was called … and Edward Tregear , also encouraged Best in the study of Māori history and culture. Best's association with these local …
Type: Biography
… teller. Smart still found time to do much research into the history of the town and region. In particular, he developed his interest in recording Maori history and customs. His thirst for knowledge, his retentive … and write articles and to pursue his work on the early history of the area. With his son, Colin, he located and …
Type: Biography
… family stories. New interest Those who remembered family history were usually older. As the number of older people in … hence more curious about them. The increasing attention to Māori culture made Pākehā more interested in their own identity, with the Māori emphasis on whakapapa as a model. New Zealand Society …
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Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… Māori and early Pākehā It is likely that only a few hundred Māori lived in Marlborough in the first half of the 19th … because the Māori population was decreasing. A continuous history of Pākehā settlement dates from the 1850s. The heart …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough region
… have featured people and places important in Northland’s Māori history. The photographers G. Radcliffe, Tudor Collins and … market. History and scholarship In the 19th century, Māori historians and genealogists – among them Āperahama …
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Part of story: Northland region
… cultural dislocation as a result of the urbanisation of Māori in the later 20th century. Kaumātua, who should have been expected to be familiar with tribal history and traditions, have admitted that when they were … Hīroa had foreshadowed this problem, making a plea for Māori elders to pass on their knowledge: [K]aua e kaiponutia …
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Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… of his stay Maning fitted easily into the role of Pākehā-Māori. According to an entry in an 1837 Hokianga Wesleyan … had stirred up anti-government, pro-French sympathies among Māori at Kaipara. Later in life Maning implied that he had … several of the major fights. In 1845 he began writing A history of the war in the north of New Zealand against the …
Type: Biography
… Colonisation and Māori women Māori women traditionally had a say in the affairs of the … belief system. Mikaere states that Māori cosmology and history was retold to emphasise the male characters, while …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… and genealogies of his people. His first manuscript history was an account of the emigration of the Māori from Hawaiki, and gave his name as 'Hone'. In 1881 and … into volume four of White's The ancient history of the Māori (1888). The editing was poor: grammatical mistakes …
Type: Biography
… Read a history of the Te Ara project . What is Te Ara? ‘Te ara’ in Māori means ‘the pathway’. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New … which appeared progressively between 2005 and 2014: Māori New Zealanders and New Zealand Peoples – the arrival …
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… Twentieth-century Ngāti Raukawa history is diverse and complex. The people experienced great … which saw the widespread revitalisation of marae and the Māori language, and the establishment of Te … the arts, sciences, business and the reconstruction of Māori knowledge. The latter half of the 20th century saw the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… Kore might be unknown potential. The first Western-trained Māori scholars later taught this version of creation to other Māori, to the extent that today it is widely accepted by … pre-European creation beliefs. Turning whakapapa into history Other Pākehā writers, such as Stephenson Percy Smith …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… Numbers In 2018 Māori comprised approximately 16.5% (775,836 people) of New Zealand’s population. Location In the 2000s the Māori people were more diverse and dispersed than at any other time in their history. Some continued to live in their traditional tribal …
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Part of story: Māori
… with relatively little ethnic diversity for much of its history, and this has encouraged intolerance of ethnic … many Europeans. Some migrants to New Zealand regarded Māori as superior to other colonised peoples. These … that resulted in the Treaty of Waitangi, which offered Māori the rights of British citizens. This was ‘the fairest …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… Early women composers There is a strong tradition of Māori women as poets and composers. In his collection of traditional Māori waiata (songs), Ngā m ō teatea , Apirana Ngata noted … 1 Songs are also major sources of tribal oral tradition, history, geography, and political and social commentary, and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… and tuition of his Ngāti Porou relations. He learned Māori lore from respected tohunga, including Pineāmine … in karakia, whaikōrero (oratory) and whakapapa, and the history and use of ancient weapons. He won the taiaha … struck him as odd that pupils were not allowed to speak Māori. He eventually spoke fluently in many languages and …
Type: Biography