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… View the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Latest biographies . What is the Dictionary of New Zealand … who shaped this country’s history and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. It includes more than …
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… Lewis Acker was born probably in New York, in the United States, some time between 1813 and 1817. His father, variously …
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… Māori society, all important aspects of life had systems of knowledge transfer and skills acquisition that had … process. Rituals and transmission A ritual marked each step in the learning process, including some form of test for the student. Group learning and cooperative …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… Activist groups Māori commentators often say that nothing has been achieved without protest and action. Progress towards tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) has been based on this belief. Many activist, … Protest organisations …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… (or Hinepopo) was the first to swim the treacherous waters of Raukawa Moana (Cook Strait). She was driven by a … and paddled back to their kāinga on Rangitoto ki te Tonga (D’Urville Island in the Marlborough Sounds). … Water sports …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori games – ngā tākaro
… Turi The Aotea canoe landed in a small bay named Hawaiki-iti, inside Aotea Harbour. From there, Turi, the captain, led an overland … the coast around Mt Taranaki. Going over the hill from Aotea, Turi named a larger harbour Kāwhia, Te awhinga o Turi … Western North Island …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… Whāngai issues While adoption in Western society is often seen as a necessary evil, in Māori society the practice …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… past, it is understandable that historians have been fascinated by the Waikato region. An early example was James Cowan, … history while growing up on a farm on the Ōrakau battle site. His publications, notably The New Zealand wars (1922–23) … on Māori as well as Pākehā accounts. Another prolific writer in both English and Māori, Pei Te Hurunui Jones, …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… Esmarck, about 1777. His mother died when he was eight. After spending two years with his grandparents in Jutland, Hans Falk attended school at Copenhagen. He went to sea early in the …
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… a merchant, and his wife, Annie Sinclair Allan. He was educated at Riverton school and Southland Boys' High School … a clerical cadet for the civil service in Wellington. He later went to Whanganui and then to Dunedin, where in 1907 he …
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… The magical light from Te Ramaroa mountain first guided Kupe into Hokianga Harbour. …
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… Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira Today the Cook Strait domain of … resources that were traditionally part of the tribal estate, Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira (the tribal authority) was …
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Part of story: Ngāti Toarangatira
… The wellspring of tears Concerned about growing European settlement and the increasing demand for land, Ngāti Maniapoto supported the establishment of a Māori king who would oppose any …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… in different ways. At first, most of those acts related to natural resources, but a few, like the Education Act … refer to the treaty have increased over time. In 2022, Te Arawhiti – The Office of Crown Māori Relations produced a … whether a legislative reference to the treaty was appropriate when new laws were being drafted, and which type of …
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… James Cook’s ships spent more than 200 days in Queen Charlotte Sound and environs in the 1770s. Interaction was mainly with Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne, although … Sounds were generally amicable, but there was one unfortunate exchange. At Wharehunga Bay in December 1773, 10 men who …
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Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… an area held general rights over it – known as whenua kite hou (newly discovered land). Land features in newly discovered territory were often formally named. Chiefs invoked their …
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Part of story: Take whenua – Māori land tenure
… Myths and legends The districts of Te Tau Ihu (the top of the South Island) are rich in … Kaiwhakaruaki, Ngārara Huarau and other well-known monsters have local versions, and the same is true for sagas of …
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Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… Wānanga Wānanga are teaching and research institutions where learning occurs through a Māori method of teaching. Whare wānanga (houses of learning) were … for people of chiefly status. The first modern wānanga – Te Wānanga-o-Raukawa in Ōtaki – was founded in 1981, but …
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Part of story: Tertiary education
… In the creation stories they held their children in their eternal embrace in the darkness. Ultimately, the children separated their parents – which in one …
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Part of story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting
… The repudiation movement was led from Hawke’s Bay and rejected land sales it considered unjust. It met from 1871 and … Kahungunu was a leader of the movement and he was supported by two politicians: Henry Robert Russell and John … Takamoana was another leader. The Māori language newspaper Te Wananga was an organ of the movement. Northern …
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Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements