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… nationwide fashion business, selling garments which often incorporated Māori names, motifs and patterns. She was a role model for Māori women in business and … Ensor, Kura Te Whiria …
Type: Biography
… Te Tiriti o Waitangi (in English, the Treaty of Waitangi), … between Māori and the British Crown. Although it was intended to create unity, different understandings of the treaty, and … Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi …
Type: Story Front
… a balance between work and leisure. Leisure time was spent telling stories, performing waiata, haka and poi, playing … serious purposes like transmitting knowledge as well as entertainment value. … Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia …
Type: Story Front
… Patricia Laura Te Waikapoata Mathieson was born in New Plymouth on 31 March … Mathieson, of the Taranaki iwi, was a motor mechanic and later a taxi and bus driver. Her mother was Norah Laura Te … Hond, Patricia Laura Te Waikapoata …
Type: Biography
… John Te One Hippolite (registered as Teone Hoani Hippolite) was born at Madsen Bay, D’Urville … Hippolite, John Te One …
Type: Biography
… Hepi Hoani Te Heuheu Tūkino was the seventh paramount chief of Ngāti … , part of a line that traced its ancestry to the tohunga of Te Arawa canoe, Ngātoroirangi. His grandfather, Tūreiti Te … Te Heuheu Tūkino VII, Hepi Hoani …
Type: Biography
… Edward James Te Āika Tregerthen, later known as Eruera Tīhema Tirikātene, was born on 5 January … Tirikātene, Eruera Tīhema Te Āika …
Type: Biography
… Te Ua Haumēne Te Ua Haumēne had been baptised into the Wesleyan faith with … Te Ua Haumēne – Pai Mārire and Hauhau …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… British land title, the Native Land Court was soon dubbed ‘te kōti tango whenua’ (the land-taking court) for its role … different focus – to keep land in Māori hands and to promote its use and development. … Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua …
Type: Story Front
… of tribes, was the son of Waikato leader Pōtatau Te Wherowhero and Whakaawi, Pōtatau's senior wife. He was … Waikato. It is said that he was named Tūkāroto to commemorate Pōtatau's stand at the siege of Mātakitaki pā in May … Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero …
Type: Biography
… Beginning with letters written to politicians and Māori newspapers in the 19th century, … Māori non-fiction and scholarship – ngā tuhinga me te rangahau …
Type: Story Front
… equivalent of tobacco, alcohol or recreational drugs. After Europeans introduced tobacco to New Zealand, it was … quickly taken up by Māori. In the 2000s the Māori smoking rate was still more than twice that of non-Māori. Early … were less positive – Māori dubbed it waipiro (stinking water) or wai kaha (strong water), and communities attempted …
Type: Story Front
… In Māori tradition, people and forests are vitally connected – both were created by the god Tāne. A magical realm guarded by lizards, … on its trees and shrubs for food, medicines, building materials and clothing. … Te ngahere – forest lore …
Type: Story Front
… numbers, Māori were forced to adapt to an alien system of rules and regulations. The new laws that affected them most directly were those that over time separated them from their land. … Te ture – Māori and legislation …
Type: Story Front
… They carried people to safety, and were called on for protection. Whales were a source of food, and the jawbone was … Te whānau puha – whales …
Type: Story Front
… Te Heke-rangatira-ki-Nukutaurua Boyd, commonly known as Heke … means ‘the migration of chiefs to Nukutaurua’, and commemorated the exodus in the 1830s of Wairarapa’s chiefs to the … Boyd, Te Heke-rangatira-ki-Nukutaurua …
Type: Biography
… judge of the Native Land Court. In December 1864 a new system of Native Land Courts covering the entire colony was … and published his writings on traditional Māori history. After the first auctions of Rotorua land in 1880, the Bay of … ‘Te kōti tango whenua’, 1865–1873 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… Īnia Mōrehu Tauhia Wātene Iarahi Waihurihia Te Wīata (originally Te Iwiata) was born in Ōtaki on 10 June … Te Wīata, Īnia Mōrehu Tauhia Wātene Iarahi Waihurihia …
Type: Biography
… near North Cape. On landing, Pōhurihanga declared, ‘Te muri o te whenua’ (This is the end of the land) – hence the … Ngāti Kurī, Ngāi Takoto, Te Pātū and Ngāti Kahu …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes