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… so only chiefs owned them. Government officials often gifted horses to chiefs as a sign of goodwill. Hapū … pigs or quantities of flax. Horses made overland travel faster, and probably helped bring neighbouring hapū and iwi …
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Part of story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
… way of life By the 1980s, the proliferation of Māori committees, clubs, and marae complexes had created a new kind of community life for city Māori, and …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… William Magee Hunter was born probably in 1833 or 1834 to a family of landed gentry in County Antrim, Ireland. He was educated at Enniskillen and Trinity College, Dublin, but cut … Hunter, William Magee …
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… Mākaraka Outer suburban area 5 km north-west of Gisborne with a 2013 … and a motor camp. The settlement, which is bisected by the main north road into Gisborne, has a tavern, … butchery, food outlets and petrol station. The Mākaraka cemetery, set aside by the government in 1872, pays homage to …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… from the 1970s to the 1990s. She showed courage and determination in negotiating the return of Te Kōpua to her people, and fought for increased Māori …
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… Aupōuri Peninsula A splinter of land at the country’s northern tip, approximately 100 km long. Its name comes from the local iwi (tribe). …
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Part of story: Northland places
… child of the whaler James 'Worser' Heberley and his wife, Te Wai (also known as Māta Te Naihi), of the Puketapu people of Te Āti Awa. James Heberley had settled at Jacky Guard's Te …
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… began through the efforts of early missionaries to communicate with Māori in order to convert them to Christianity. … New Zealand; or, the New Zealander's first book; being an attempt to compose some lessons for the instruction of the …
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Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… experience in New Zealand. The country has a long and often rocky coastline, and windy, changeable weather, which … taking refuge from their enemies in the rivers and waterfalls where the treasured stone is now found. Ārai-te-uru and Mamari On the east coast of the South Island, the …
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Part of story: Shipwrecks
… be descended from Punga, a son of Tangaroa, the sea god. ‘Te aitanga a Punga’ (the progeny of Punga) traditionally … as lizards and tuatara, it includes sharks, sea and freshwater fish, eels, lizards, stingrays, octopus, insects and …
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Part of story: Ngārara – reptiles
… Islands. Tinirau, ancestor of all the fish, lives at Te Motutapu-o-Tinirau (Tinirau’s Sacred Isle), which in some traditions is located under the sea. The priest Kae’s people are called Te Aitanga-a-Te Poporokewa (the descendants of Poporokewa – …
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Part of story: Tangaroa – the sea
… emerged from a humble upbringing to become one of the greatest Māori leaders and proponents of mana wāhine in the … politics and forge new pathways for Māori women. She dedicated her life to te ao Māori, Māori women, and upholding the …
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… 1871 at Ōhinemutu, Lake Rotorua. His mother, Raiha Ratete (Eliza Rogers), a high-born woman of Ngāti Whakaue …
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… probably in 1833 or 1834. His birthplace may have been at Te Poho, near the Kirikiri Stream. His father was Pātara Te Rangiteapake of Ngāti Maru , also known as Pātara Paki, …
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… parents William Leonard Parker, a farmer, and his wife, Te Oharepe Ruta (Ruth) Collier. Bill was educated at Hiruharama Native School and attended Te Aute College …
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… II, known as Whiria as a young man, was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He lived in the southern Bay of Islands, in …
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… continued into the 21st century. In 1992 a New Zealand team that included two Māori golfers, Phil Tataurangi and Michael Campbell, won the Eisenhower trophy, the international men’s amateur team golf championship. Individually, Tataurangi came … Māori and sport from the late 20th century …
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Part of story: Māori and sport – hākinakina
… boom, 1990s to 2000s The 1990s and 2000s saw an unprecedented boom in new museums. Museums and art galleries were constructed that became focal points of regional and national … identity and culture, including: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) in Wellington (1998) Museum of …
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Part of story: Museums
… collector, and his wife, Christina O’Sullivan, a schoolteacher. In 1910 the family emigrated to New Zealand, where his father had gone earlier and …
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… tiki mai tahau i ngā mahara e kohi nei Whakarerea ake e nā te roimata koua riringi He puna wai kai aku kamo… I gaze up … Captured are my memories of you who have left me behind Tears rippling like springs in my eyes. 1 Matariki is a …
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Part of story: Matariki – Te Tau Hou Māori