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… Writers Early settler Jane Maria Atkinson left a valuable record of life in Taranaki through her letters. Taranaki ethnologist Stephenson Percy Smith co-founded …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… Rangitīaria Dennan, better known as Guide Rangi, achieved wide recognition as a cultural ambassador. With charm, insight and wit she imparted the essentials of Māori tradition to the tourists she …
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… The Supreme Court judge Henry Samuel Chapman was also an amateur linguist. In Dunedin in 1876 he published Specimens of fossilised words; or obsolete roots embedded in modern compounds; with some words with …
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Part of story: Linguistics
… Zealand Peoples, the theme on arrivals. This theme was intended as a mihi (greeting) to all the people of the … society and culture. The final theme on creative life was intended as a compelling ending to the encyclopedia’s initial construction. Theme editors and their role Each of Te Ara’s 10 themes had a specialist editor or editors. These …
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Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… Toi, Paikea (the whale rider from Hawaiki), the chief Te Kani a Takirau, who refused the kingship, and later, Apirana Ngata. For Ngāti Porou, independence and unity …
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… in the 1800s. European spectators recorded the food items and the numbers of people present, as well as the … Piles would be set up and a chief would go along and note that a particular pile was for a particular hapū or iwi. …
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Part of story: Māori feasts and ceremonial eating – hākari
… Unfulfilled promise of trade Land purchases were often justified to Māori on the basis that tribes would … were eager to have access to the markets, new goods and technology that would result. Many were early entrepreneurs, … the proposed town of Dunedin were agreed to. Setting aside 'tenths' (one-tenth of the land to be sold) was also …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… developments in modern dance. Māori companies Māori contemporary dance began to develop in the 1980s, continued in fits and starts through the 1990s and grew steadily from 2000. In 1984 Stephen Bradshaw started a dance company for unemployed young … Contemporary Māori and Pacific dance …
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Part of story: Contemporary dance
… baker, James Duncan, and his wife, Marrian Hill. After studying at Glasgow University from 1836 to 1838, he attended the Theological Hall of the Reformed Presbyterian Church at Paisley from 1839 to 1841, and was ordained …
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… entrance. The highest peak, Opuahau, is 355 m. The crater contains two lakes, Aroarotamahine (green) and Te Paritu (almost black). The island was last permanently inhabited by Te Whānau-a-Tauwhao, a sub-tribe of Ngāi Te Rangi. It …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… The next group of New Zealand singers to have an international impact were baritones and basses. Denis Dowling … was born in Ranfurly, Otago. His career path set the pattern for many who followed: first prize in a major … Music); roles with significant English companies and then international stardom. A brilliant singer, Dowling was also …
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Part of story: Classical musicians
… to the order Charadriiformes, which also includes gulls and terns. Some waders are found only in New Zealand, and may … Others breed in the northern hemisphere and migrate thousands of kilometres to New Zealand shores. Wading … birds found in New Zealand belong to these groups: oystercatchers; stilts; plovers and dotterels; snipes, …
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Part of story: Wading birds
… and oils, as well as facial or body tattoos. Clothing consisted of shoulder and waist garments, belts and sometimes … rain capes to full-length cloaks with stitched or intertwined attachments, or with intricately woven tāniko borders. Waist garments comprised maro …
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Part of story: Māori clothing and adornment – kākahu Māori
… was born probably sometime between 1856 and 1859 at Ōrongotea, on the north-west shoreline of the Hokianga Harbour. … is not known. Pāpāhia was baptised Hōne Wēpiha (John Webster) after an early nineteenth century European settler, but …
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… of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust The Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust was established in December 1991. The New Zealand government contributed $8 million, together with public assets: wharf …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… of citizenship. Even in 1939, the Māori sense of being accepted as equals within New Zealand was marginal. The Māori … a Pākehā professional soldier and First World War veteran. At first there was some resentment towards a European … this was rapidly overcome by Dittmer’s professional competence and strict discipline. Later in the war the battalion …
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Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… 2013 population of 345, of whom 60.4% were Māori and a quarter aged under 15. In the early 2000s its services and … Road. The Rēre rock slide is a natural 60-metre water slide that every summer attracts visitors bearing boogie … Ngātapa. In November 1868 prophet and military leader Te Kooti and his followers fortified this sloping summit …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… them to be experts in weaponry and skilled in the strategies of war. Children were subjected by their elders to various military training techniques, such as being suddenly woken at night so they …
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Part of story: Mau rākau – Māori use of weaponry
… means to stand in a row or rank, and haka is a dance. The term ‘kapa haka’ means a group or groups standing in rows to … traditional Māori dances, accompanied by sung or chanted words. Kapa haka is a living art form. Types of haka … There are many different types of haka, each appropriate for a different occasion. According to haka and …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka
… Ngāwini and Samuel Yates ran a large farm and general store in the far north of New Zealand during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Samuel Yates was born in London, England, … Yates, Ngāwini …
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