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… on New Zealand, probably between 1250 and 1300 CE, they stepped onto a beach. Those beaches where the founding waka … be the petrified remains of the kūmara and gourds that scattered when the Ārai-te-uru capsized. Pākehā too arrived on …
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Part of story: Beach culture
… Waitākere Ranges Rugged forested range of hills (reaching 450 m), stretching north-west … ‘wave-swept rock’, from a small bay at the northern end of Te Henga. Annual rainfall is 2,000 mm – compared with 1,268 … left in the Waitākeres. In the 1940s what remained was protected in reserves. Timber mill to regional park From 1859 …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… children. His father, Thomas Heaphy, was a professional watercolourist and miniaturist of considerable social prominence. Charles's mother, Mary Stevenson, is said to have died shortly after his birth, and …
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… and his wife, Catherine Spencer. He was baptised two days later, in the neighbouring parish of Throapham. For several generations the Taylors had farmed and acted as stewards of great estates in Yorkshire. Despite this …
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… Missionary Society. In his early years Leonard was educated mainly by his father at the English boys' school at Paihia, later at Te Waimate (Waimate North), and at the Tūranga …
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… was enrolled at primary school in Martinborough, but his attendance was irregular because of childhood asthma and tuberculosis. He would say later that the most important part of his education, …
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… mana. By descent and marriage this family was connected to many of the major chiefs of Hokianga, Whangaroa, the Bay of Islands and other places. Through his mother, Te Kawehau, he was related to Hongi Hika , and also to the …
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… Early seafarers After their arrival in New Zealand in the 1200s, Māori … two Māori sailed aboard James Cook’s Resolution . Seventeen-year-old Te Weherua and 12-year-old Koa, from Queen Charlotte Sound, …
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Part of story: Māori overseas
… The Horouta canoe The intricate history of the people of Tūranganui-a-Kiwa began once the … from Hawaiki. It made landfall at Ōhiwa Harbour, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. But when those on board attempted to cross a sandbar named Tukerae-o-Kanawa and enter …
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Part of story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes
… also believed to inhabit lakes, rivers and other freshwater areas. Lake Roto-a-Tara Te Tau-a-Porirua was a taniwha from Heretaunga (Hastings), … in the Roto-a-Tara lake. Lured by the dogs, the taniwha entered the trap. Tara then dragged the creature ashore and …
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Part of story: Taniwha
… Tai When the Tainui canoe arrived at Whangaparāoa in the eastern Bay of Plenty, Tōrere, daughter of the captain Hoturoa, came ashore. She eventually … This marriage gave rise to the Ngāi Tai people, who are located at Tōrere in the Bay of Plenty. Some generations later, …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… The complexity of the original family’s relationships is noted by Taimoana Tūroa: When Tamaterā [the second son of Marutūahu] returned to Whakatīwai … he married his stepmother, Hineurunga …This union made his half-brothers Te …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… usually the summer months once the harvest had been completed. This was the time when food was plentiful and warriors … taonga (treasure) to a neighbouring tribe as a gift to invite them to take part in a battle. Accepting the gift implied … involved a gift of food. Acceptance of the food indicated a willingness to join. Tohunga The role of a tohunga was …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… to produce kūmara became ritualised – it was even associated with Rongomātāne (Rongo), a high-ranking atua (god). … Anuhe, Toronū and Moko, all names for the kūmara moth caterpillar, which attacks the leaves of the plant. Māra … the atua. Rituals for planting When the main crop was planted, karakia (prayers) were said, and an offering was made …
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Part of story: Kūmara
… are on land owned by descendants of the Ngāti Hine ancestor Te Ruki Kawiti. The caves have delicate stalactite and stalagmite formations and contain glow worms. Another …
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Part of story: Northland places
… past events or people. The most common type in the western tradition is the gravestone marking a person’s burial … place. However, in classical times, monuments were erected in public places such as squares, to victories in war or … were: a statue of John Robert Godley, the ‘founder of Canterbury’, by Thomas Woolner in Cathedral Square (1867) the …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… The NZBC and the introduction of television After the National Party became the government in 1960, it …
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Part of story: Radio
… Benneydale Township 35 kilometres south-east of Te Kūiti. Coal was discovered there in 1931. In 1940 the … coal mine and built Benneydale township. The mine closed after a major fire in 1962. Another part of the coal seam … developed in response to the early-1880s opening of Te Rohe Pōtae (the King Country) to Pākehā, which followers …
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Part of story: King Country places
… a period of great inventiveness during which the curved patterns and spirals that have become synonymous with Māori art … admiration During this period Europeans first encountered Māori culture. Joseph Banks, a botanist on English … James Cook’s Endeavour voyage in 1770, observed elaborately carved canoes at Ūawa (Tolaga Bay). He wrote, ‘for the …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… community based around prophet Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s teachings sprang up at Rātana pā, between Whanganui and … movement was a nationalist political movement which agitated for recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi and managed to …
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Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements