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… a coachman, and his wife, Mary Ann Bott. John was educated privately and at Highbury College, London, where he gained a first-class certificate. In 1864 he left England for India to engage in …
Type: Biography
… Turikatuku was the daughter of Mutunga II, and belonged to Te Hikutū and Ngāti Rēhia, who were related to Ngāpuhi; …
Type: Biography
… born, according to his own account, in 1852. His mother, Te Whakaumata, also known as Patumoana, of Ngāi Te Rangi , was one of three or four wives of Te Ipututu …
Type: Biography
… foundation, the Maori Education Foundation (MEF), to promote education of Māori at secondary and tertiary level. Iwi throughout the country supported the MEF …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… the wars of the 1860s, East Coast tribes were threatened with confiscation of their lands by the New Zealand … government. To avoid this threat Māori leaders negotiated the surrender of some lands to the Crown, and they … area, excluding those who had fought against the Crown after 1863. Some tribes of Tūranganui-a-Kiwa suffered more …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes
… diverse heights, girths and other features of trees suggested the variety of human dimensions. Children were named after trees, plants and birds, and people’s characters were likened to features of the forest. Independence …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Waonui a Tāne – forest mythology
… on the East Coast on 6 June 1901. His mother, Maraea Te Iritawa, and his father, Tāmati Taiapa, were of Te Whānau-a-Hinerupe, a hapū of Ngāti Porou. His mother was …
Type: Biography
… survived changing fortunes. Led by the famous warrior chief Te Rauparaha, they walked south in search of a safer and more prosperous life. After facing hardships along the way, they became a rich and powerful tribe on both sides of Cook Strait (Te Moana-a-Raukawa). …
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… Te Karaka Township 30 km inland and north-west from Gisborne on State Highway 2, with a population of 480 in 2013. Te Karaka is located on the right bank of the Waipāoa River …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: East Coast places
… Māori-language broadcasts Although radio broadcasting in Aotearoa New Zealand began in 1921, the Māori language was not … that year Airini Grenell (of Ngāi Tahu) sang for radio listeners and performances by the Petone Māori Variety …
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Part of story: Māori radio – reo irirangi
… is said to have been of Ngāti Raukawa , Ngāti Maru and Te Arawa descent. The names of his parents are not known. He … at his baptism by Hadfield on 17 October 1841. He attracted the attention of Bishop G. A. Selwyn on the latter's …
Type: Biography
… of New Zealand’s leading authorities on traditional Māori literature. She published prolifically, for both academic and … and popular success. Although she had highly developed written skills in te reo Māori, she was not a fluent speaker. …
Type: Biography
… in Heretaunga, Hawke's Bay. He was the third son of Te Rotohenga, also called Winipere, from whom he derived his high rank. Her father was Hāwea of Ngāti Te Whatu-i-āpiti , heir to mana over Heretaunga, and …
Type: Biography
… in the 1820s and 1830s. He also had connections with Te Rarawa, Te Roroa and Ngāti Whātua. He is thought to have been born …
Type: Biography
… 20th century: attempts at redress Several partial attempts were made by the Crown throughout the 20th century to compensate Te Āti Awa for past injustices. For example, in the 1920s …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Taranaki
… Māori traditions Cultural life in Manawatū and Horowhenua dates back to the oral traditions of the Rangitāne hapū … their people to the land – explaining the origins of Te Āpiti (the Manawatū Gorge), or recording the arrival from … Haunui, and the beginnings of the Muaūpoko tribe. In the late 1820s the Ngāti Raukawa tribe arrived, bringing new …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… Te Aute and Hukarere In 1857 the people of the Te Aute settlement granted 1,745 acres (700 hectares) as an …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… Matatā Coastal settlement at the western edge of the Rangitāiki Plains. The location is 23 km … of Whakatāne and 65 km south-east of Tauranga on State Highway 2. The highway west of the town traverses a land platform marking a northern limit to the Volcanic Plateau. This platform is bounded by Kōhī-o-awa Beach on the …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… Tūranganui-a-Kiwa people first met Europeans when Lieutenant James Cook’s Endeavour anchored in Poverty Bay in late 1769. Conflict arose when the crew went ashore, and … and traders began to arrive on the East Coast from the late 18th century. Probably the most well-known of these was …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes
… Cornwall, Jamaica. He was the son of David McNish, an estate overseer from Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, and Rebecca … William were baptised on 23 February 1820, and manumitted from slavery by their father on 17 October that year. …
Type: Biography