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… As in Canterbury, the first Pākehā explorers in Otago and Southland … and whalers who took up farming and went inland. Sub-protector of aborigines (Māori) Edward Shortland obtained … detailed descriptions and drawings of the inland lakes from Te Huruhuru, chief of a settlement on the lower Waitaki …
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Part of story: European exploration
… Pentecostal churches The Pentecost is a Christian festival held seven weeks after Easter Sunday. It celebrates a biblical event – the … Pentecostal and Destiny churches …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… From about 14,000 years ago, as the climate warmed, ice age glaciers shrank rapidly. But … their minimum size about 6,000 years ago, when the climate was warmer than now. There have been minor advances … New Zealand glaciers lost 38% of their volume. Ice-sculpted mountains New Zealand’s mountain scenery bears the …
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Part of story: Glaciers and glaciation
… during the Second World War. They left traces for years after – in two months of 1957–58, more than 40 live shells were detonated by the army. Many farms in the area were allocated to servicemen who had returned from the Second World …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… Kaimai Range Mountain range separating western Bay of Plenty from Waikato. It stretches from the highest point, Mt Te Aroha (952 m) in the north, to the Mamaku Range west of … It is crossed by tracks but by only one road, State Highway 29. The 8.9-km Kaimai Tunnel bisects the range, …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… descended from the legendary ancestor Paikea and Hemo ki-te-Raki. It is here that we enter the realm of human history. Largely because of internal …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… the peace settlement with Ngāti Toa, Ngāi Tahu also committed themselves to the Treaty of Waitangi, with its leading … 1840. Ngāi Tahu believed that with the treaty would come material benefits. However, one purpose of the treaty was to facilitate the Crown’s purchase of land from Māori, to sell to …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… against women was one of the most important issues confronted by the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s and … public discussion of rape and domestic violence. Their extent was largely unknown when the first rape crisis centres …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… century was the confiscation of millions of acres of tribal territory after the Waikato war of the 1860s. The government wanted to obtain the fertile Waikato lands for Pākehā … War and its aftermath …
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Part of story: Waikato tribes
… (popularly called Goat Island Marine Reserve), and the site of the University of Auckland’s marine research … lies along a 5-km stretch of coastline north of Leigh and extends 800 m offshore. It attracts 100,000 visitors a year. …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… kind of government. The visit of the French ship La Favorite in 1831 led to British concerns about other nations … annexing New Zealand. In 1831, 13 northern chiefs, assisted by missionary William Yate, sent a letter to King William IV requesting his …
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Part of story: He Whakaputanga – Declaration of Independence
… the absence of a single co-ordinating agency. Fiordland’s terrestrial environment is protected under the National Parks Act 1980; however, its …
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Part of story: Fiords
… found that she was already married to Tamatakutai. In an attempt to impress her people, he gathered enormous quantities … of Rongomaiwahine’s people, Kahungunu set out to create discord between Rongomaiwahine and her husband … joined Tamatakutai in the sport of surfing in a canoe. After several trips Kahungunu took over the steering, and …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… Kaitiakitanga in action There are many examples of contemporary kaitiakitanga. The Ngāi Tahu tribe are kaitiaki of … a claim was taken to the Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of Te Āti Awa ki Taranaki, about sewage and industrial waste polluting tribal fishing areas. At Pukerua Bay, north of …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… million seabirds breed around New Zealand, and then migrate across the equator to the far north Pacific. Others move … west from New Zealand across the Tasman Sea, or to the eastern Pacific and western Atlantic. Albatrosses and petrels In contrast to the …
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Part of story: Bird migration
… Substantial areas of Māori land were confiscated by the government after the New Zealand wars of the early 1860s. On 5 May 1863, … to Governor George Grey proposing that Māori in a ‘state of rebellion’ have their lands confiscated as a …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… Whānau pani The role of the whānau pani (or kiri mate, or kura tūohu – the bereaved family) is to mourn. … of Mihi Kotukutuku were taken aback when three busloads of Te Arawa people turned up at her tangi on the East Coast … not allow women to do this). People at tangi are not expected to speak only good of the dead. The whānau pani would …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… Waihī Beach Coastal settlement in the western Bay of Plenty, 11 km east of Waihī town. Originally … development. Ngā Kurī a Whārei Reef which sets the western boundary of a rāhui (prohibition). This prohibition … Runaway). It was imposed generations ago by Muriwai, sister of Toroa, the captain of Mataatua canoe, when her two …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… Awatere River The 113-km Awatere River rises on the Marlborough–Canterbury border. The high-country Acheron River probably at one point fed into the Awatere, but now flows south to join the Clarence; it is … Awatere valley …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… region. Although Alfred was born in Auckland in May 1867 after the land wars had forced the family to leave Taupō, like his brothers and sisters he came to know the Māori people and their culture …
Type: Biography