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… In the late 1850s, the European population of New Zealand overtook … further loss of land. Land issues at Waitara Land disputes caused tension in New Plymouth. Settlers urged Governor …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… at Chard, Somerset, England. His forebears, of French protestant origin, had settled in Dorset in the sixteenth century; his father was a farmer. Robert married Mary … Whitmore at Colyton, Somerset, on 18 October 1838. Two daughters were born to them in England, and two daughters and a …
Type: Biography
… Waitōtara Valley in South Taranaki. Born in the early nineteenth century, he was a youth in 1822 when Te Rauparaha occupied Te Ihupuku, the tribe's principal pā. …
Type: Biography
… Other linguists have studied New Zealand English, te reo Māori, minority languages and sociolinguistic issues. …
Type: Story Front
… George Gage, or Hōri Te Kou-o-rehua Keeti as he was known to Māori, was born … of Ngāti Maniapoto. His mother, Rea Waitāuhi Nikorima of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Te Whakatōhea of the eastern Bay of …
Type: Biography
… Rotorua, on 16 April 1898, the youngest child of prominent Te Arawa leader Hēnare Mete Amohau and his wife, Tūkau Te Hira of Ngāti Pikiao. Known …
Type: Biography
… The battle of Gate Pā (Pukehinahina) In March 1864 the Tauranga Moana tribes challenged British troops, stationed at Te Papa in Tauranga, to battle. The soldiers had been sent … From Gate Pā to the present …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… Nei, a Papatuanuku. The People and the Land are One. Tribal territory The traditional lands of Tūhoe centre on the rugged Te Urewera region, in the central eastern North Island. It stretches westward from Maungapōhatu …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… Kate Halbert was born probably at Tūtoko, near Waerenga-a-hika … in Poverty Bay, in the early 1840s. She was the daughter of the trader Thomas Halbert and his fifth wife, Keita … Wyllie, Kate …
Type: Biography
… Governments breached te Tiriti o Waitangi almost from the time it was signed in 1840. In the late 20th century many of these breaches were finally …
Type: Story Front
… in order to impede the flow of arms and men of Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Ranginui to the Waikato. Upon hearing … Tauranga, these men, led by Rāwiri Tuaia Puhirake , immediately returned home. By April 1864 Puhirake had assembled 250 … Gate Pā, Tauranga …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… Read a history of the Te Ara project . What is Te Ara? ‘Te ara’ in Māori means ‘the pathway’. Te Ara – The … About this site …
Type: Basic page
… independent Māori arts advocacy organisation, Toi Māori Aotearoa, was formed in 1996. It continued the work of Te Waka Toi in taking Māori art to the world with … Contemporary Māori art in the 2000s …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu
… T. T. Rāwhiti was closely associated, for some 30 years, with demands for Māori autonomy and … He was born in Kāwhia in about 1851, and later lived at Tauwhare, near Cambridge. He had affiliations …
Type: Biography
… washed ashore. He was found by his grandfather, Tamanui-ki-te-rangi, and was raised as a whāngai and trained in his … a personification of the rainbow, took the form of Tamatea-arikinui, the father of Kahungunu, and slept with …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… for sustaining and developing Māori language and culture. Tens of thousands of people compete, while many more regularly enjoy kapa haka as a social …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kapa Haka
… First Māori magazines Māori magazines started in the 1950s. Since this was a time of language loss, … in English. Most, however, also have generous content in Māori; some are entirely in Māori. The magazines are …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… the introduction of guns, which proved deadly during the intertribal ‘musket wars’. Those who possessed the imported weapons overwhelmed and decimated those who did not. The carved Te Kaha pātaka …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… The kawa of the marae means the protocols that operate on the marae. Te kawanga whare or te tā i te kawa: the dawn ceremony At …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te kawa o te marae
… Tūtekohi Rangi, also known as Wiremu Retimana Rangi or … Coast. His father was Ratawari Rangi of Ngāti Kuranui (Ngāi Te Kuranui), a hapū of Tolaga Bay and environs, part of Te … Rangi, Tūtekohi …
Type: Biography