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… the Māhia peninsula, in the 1830s. Airini Donnelly , his stepdaughter, said that he returned from Nukutaurua to Hawke's Bay …
Type: Biography
… Using material from Te Ara Images : Te Ara and Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage … do not hold copyright for all the images on the website. If you wish to re-use an image, please refer to the …
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… forests and parks as it calls to other moreporks and claims territory. Its European name (morepork), Māori name (ruru) … They are less common in the drier, more open regions of Canterbury and Otago. Speckled dark brown, with yellow eyes and … Island. It was reduced in numbers to a single female, but after two males were introduced from New Zealand in 1987, a …
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Part of story: Birds of prey
… in the history of New Zealand settlement. The famous terraces In the 1880s, tourists were drawn to the thermal regions of Rotorua and Tarawera. A stellar attraction was the Pink and White Terraces, on the shores of Lake Rotomahana. Their tiers …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… of Waitangi The story of New Zealand as a modern nation state began in 1840. In that year the country became a British … The treaty in English and Māori The treaty was written in English and translated into Māori. Most Māori chiefs signed this translation. …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… it from all other forms of English. New Zealanders use terms like mana and taonga (treasure) without glossing them. … for Māori pensioners) are common compounds, while huiette (small-scale meeting) is a hybrid form. Global terms like couch potato and tall poppy are adapted into …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: English language in New Zealand
… founded the Polynesian Society, an organisation dedicated to recording material before it was lost. Other founding members included noted anthropologists Walter Gudgeon, Alexander Shand, W. H. …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… Historic land protest Māori protest about land dates back to the 19th century. Māori protested against land … Land protests …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements
… civilisation and sport went hand in hand, and they attempted to involve Māori in European sports. Māori did take up these new sports but often gave each game a unique cultural flavour. Some sports, …
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Part of story: Māori and sport – hākinakina
… 1894, when it was removed by the European owner of a cutter (small ship), who took it to his home in Waitara. Its absence was soon noted and suspicion fell on the culprit. He was confronted by Te Horo, a chief, and the surveyor and ethnographer …
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Part of story: King Country region
… tapu and mauri were seen as all-pervasive, people navigated the spiritual world through karakia and ritual. Most … and rituals required the services of tohunga. Scholar Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Buck) defined ritual as ‘the form of …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… Te whare tapere Kia kawea tātou e te rēhia Let us be taken by the spirit of joy, of …
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Part of story: Māori theatre – te whare tapere hōu
… County Donegal. His mother's name is unknown. He was educated at Charterhouse, and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, …
Type: Biography
… Hadfield, silk merchant, and his wife, Amelia Caroline White, was born at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, England, and was … on 6 November 1814. His marriage to Catherine, known as Kate, third daughter of Archdeacon Henry Williams , was …
Type: Biography
… Āperahama Taonui was the visionary leader of Ngāpuhi hapū Te Popoto of Utakura in the upper Hokianga, and a founder of … of the 1890s. He was born, by his own account, after the burning of the Boyd at Whangaroa in 1809; in about …
Type: Biography
… Government legislation and proposals have often been a source of protest. Hunn Report Māori protest in the later 20th century crystallised around the Hunn …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements
… Tahu, conquest had never been a preferred means of claiming territory. During the early period of occupying and settling the South Island, besides deliberately marrying into the earliest resident tribes such as …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Many taniwha were associated with the sea. A large number were said to have come with … brought the Polynesian ancestors of the Māori people to Aotearoa (New Zealand). Tuhirangi Kupe was the great navigator …
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Part of story: Taniwha
… Kupe According to the Te Āti Awa tribe, Kupe explored the entire west coast of the … Harbour, naming Matiu (Somes) and Mākaro (Ward) islands after his daughters. Steeple Rock, near the harbour’s entrance, was named …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… in 1845 or 1846, near Lake Rotorua. His father was Hēmana Te Whareiro of Ngāti Wāhiao, descendants of Tūhourangi of Te Arawa. Hemana usually lived at Whakarewarewa, but had …
Type: Biography