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… In response to Māori activist protests of the 1970s and 1980s successive governments made changes to accommodate Māori expectations. The Waitangi Tribunal was established …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… since 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which they were affiliated. The figures below show the number who indicated the Te Āti Awa tribe of Taranaki (including those who …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Taranaki
… Economy and education Despite early invasions Ngāti Ruanui established a profitable settlement. They adapted readily to European agriculture. By 1849 they were …
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Part of story: Ngāti Ruanui
… North Island thermal regions. He was so struck by their potential that he wrote to Premier Julius Vogel, recommending their development. … opinion become a source of great wealth to the country. State control Fox’s suggestion eventually bore fruit. In 1880 …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… largest town, with a 2013 population of 20,100. Masterton is Wairarapa’s main service centre and a hub for … only public hospital. Each year the town hosts the international shearing competition, the Golden Shears. Straddling the Waipoua River, Masterton has few striking natural features, but has a number …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… Puhi-o-Aotea Rātahi was the third president of the Rātana church. She … Rātana, probably in 1898 or 1899, at Ōrākeinui, which in later years became the Rātana pā settlement. Her father, … Rātahi, Puhi-o-Aotea …
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… Asia and the Pacific. They are believed to have originated in South-East Asia, and dispersed through the Pacific in … 60–80 grams in weight. They are brown, with a grey-and-white underside. Kiore is the usual name given to this species … refers to a rat considered an ill omen that was seldom eaten. Habitat and diet During the day, kiore stay in holes in …
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Part of story: Kiore – Pacific rats
… Norfolk, England, on 15 November 1849. He was educated in Portsmouth, and at about the age of 13 joined the … in a north-east gale while anchored in the Napier roadstead, Hawke Bay. Maori gathered on the beach and formed a …
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… Māori New Zealand’s nearshore islands have always attracted people. As experienced seafarers from Polynesia, Māori … and cliffs formed natural defences. Some islands were noted points of arrival for Māori waka (canoes). It is said …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… Grey (or Gray) in 1830; they had two sons and three daughters, one of whom, Tepaea, was better known as Guide Sophia. Grey was part of …
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… example of traditional carving and decoration in modern materials. Nearby, the rebuilt Rangiātea Church symbolises a synthesis of Māori and European spirituality. Church of the phoenix Rangiātea Church was the shared vision of Ngāti Toa chief Te …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… tourist industry – so tourism has played a role in the retention of Māori culture and language, especially around … Carving Many tourists who travelled to thermal areas wanted an ‘authentic experience’, which meant having carved buildings as a backdrop for Māori ‘at home’. Te Arawa, particularly Ngāti Tarāwhai, were renowned …
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Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… Arrival of the Salvation Army The Māori term for the Salvation Army is Te Ope Whakaora, which means ‘the army that brings life’. … Christian churches. The Salvation Army at first concentrated its efforts in towns and cities, and as most Māori lived …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… Whale place names and imagery The whale has often been commemorated in place names. These include: Moutohorā (captured whale), an island off the coast at Whakatāne Te Ara-a-Kewa (the path of the right whale), the name for …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… tribal expeditions. One expedition in 1855 by the Te Rarawa people, led by the chief Popota Te Waha, involved more than 1,000 individuals in 50 canoes, and lasted over two days. The fish caught from such communal …
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Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing
… figure. Almost the whole of his recorded life was dominated by competition between Māori living on the Auckland … probably in 1883 or 1884. His father, of European and Te Akitai ancestry, was sometimes known as Tame (Thomas) …
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… children of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana and his first wife, Te Urumanaao Ngāpaki (also known as Ngāuta Urumanao Baker). … on his father's side was Ngāti Apa , but he was also connected to the Wanganui peoples, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Raukawa, …
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… 3rd Waikato militia settled at Cambridge. It was named after Queen Victoria’s cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, then … divided by the Waikato River into two settlements, connected by a punt. The river was bridged by 1871 but, unlike Hamilton, the sides remained administratively separate for nearly 100 years. The south settlement, Leamington, …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… The term ‘kāwanatanga’ is derived from a Māori-language version … leadership, administration and social control that were quite different from the monarchic and bureaucratic systems of government developed in Britain. As a result, when …
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Part of story: Kāwanatanga – Māori engagement with the state
… to 1877, pursued a single purpose. This was expressed in Ko te Karere o Nui Tireni (1842–46) as instructing Māori in the … government employees as editors and advisors, including Walter Buller, James Grindell and Donald McLean. Illustrating …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni