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… Ancient paintings and other markings on the walls of shelters and rock outcrops are found throughout the world. Aotearoa (New Zealand) has a rich heritage of Māori rock art, …
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Part of story: Māori rock art – ngā toi ana
… springs occur in many parts of New Zealand. Most are scattered throughout the Taupō Volcanic Zone in the central … non-volcanic areas, particularly in Westland and North Canterbury. They are formed when rainwater seeps down through rock towards the heat source deep …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… social organisation and class. Ngapora, a Waikato chief, wrote a letter to Governor George Grey in 1848: ‘The slaves of my … to work they will not regard me ... You Europeans have effected this change ... Formerly our word had some weight, but …
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Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society
… period from 1840 to 1865 land acquisition from Māori operated under the doctrine of Crown pre-emption – only the Crown … could extinguish Māori customary title to their lands. Private individuals could not buy land directly from Māori. This … colonies, and in New Zealand was set out in Article Two of te Tiriti o Waitangi and in section two of the Land Claims …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… name has been given to many landmarks. The most notable is Te Whanganui-a-Tara (the great harbour of Tara), which … more recently they have taken the name Muaūpoko, to indicate that they are the people living at the head (ūpoko) of … by Māui. Its head forms the Wellington region, which is the territory of the Muaūpoko people. Whātonga At the time the …
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Part of story: Muaūpoko
… the Bay of Plenty in the first half of the 20th century. Later, kiwifruit became the new driver of the regional economy. In the 1950s the Hayward cultivar was planted, especially around Te Puke, with an export trade getting under way from the …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… Māori gardens Māori gardened on the Volcanic Plateau where feasible. Early European travellers saw … along the Napier–Taupō road. First farmers The first butter factory was built at Ngongotahā in 1910. Canterbury investors and settlers were active in the area …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… of this plant provided a starchy food. Poroporo Māori ate the yellow fruit of poroporo. The tree produces fruit … Tawa The kernels of tawa and taraire, which mature in late summer to early autumn, were a staple of forest tribes north of Lake Taupō. The kernels were boiled, steamed, or roasted in embers. When dried they kept for …
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Part of story: Te ngahere – forest lore
… Exploration For early Māori, rivers offered landing sites, harbours and a source of fresh water. They explored as far as possible upriver on many waterways. Tamatea’s cave on the Whanganui River, for example, …
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Part of story: Rivers
… led to a Māori renaissance. A new range of identities and terms appeared as Māori defined their lives in new ways. For … Department of Māori Affairs was again renamed and became Te Puni Kōkiri – the Ministry of Māori Development. This change reflected Māori determination to have more control over the …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… The most noted of the Ngāti Porou leaders who rose to quell the … mana of Ngāti Porou in its homeland were Rāpata Wahawaha, Hōtene Porourangi, Tuta Nihohiho, Hēnare Pōtae and Mōkena … government’s. In his journals Wahawaha recorded McLean’s statement, ‘The government has no influence over your battle, …
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Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… indigenous people of Rēkohu (Chatham Island) and Rangihaute (Pitt Island), the two largest islands in the Chatham … Polynesian ancestry as Māori people. Current research indicates that Moriori came to the Chatham Islands from New … on Rēkohu when the canoe voyagers arrived. The dawn of existence (Ko matangi-ao) Moriori creation stories tell of how …
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Part of story: Moriori
… to help prepare their claims and present evidence, and often qualify for legal aid to meet those costs. Researching a claim Once a claim was accepted by the Waitangi Tribunal, tribunal staff decided what research would be necessary to fully investigate it. That research was likely to include the traditional …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… based. An editorial in an 1878 issue of the Māori newspaper Te Wānanga noted: The Maori not only claims land by right of discovery … in time of sickness (or payment to priests for supposed protection from the power of witchcraft), for the dead being …
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Part of story: Take whenua – Māori land tenure
… effect on traditional Māori healing. Tohunga had limited ability to combat the diseases brought by Europeans. Though Western medicine was also relatively ineffectual at the time, this failure still strongly affected Māori confidence in tohunga. Some Pākehā missionaries …
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Part of story: Rongoā – medicinal use of plants
… academic historians re-examined the broad significance of te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi), public historians began researching the minute details of how it had been ignored or breached in the … Waitangi. It had a low profile until 1984, when it was granted the power to hear claims dating from 1840. From this …
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Part of story: Public history
… This group, led by Apirana Ngata, were mostly graduates of Te Aute College. Despite this promising start Māori educational …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… Tahiti Papatu‘oi, in Hawaii Papa and in Rarotonga Paparoa-i-te-itinga – all began with Papa. The Māori gods Tāne, Tū, … Culture hero sequences Culture hero whakapapa are dominated by cycles centred on Māui and Tāwhwki. Genealogical … sequences vary widely. They can appear either early or later in the genealogy, depending on the composer and their …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… from the mediaeval Dukes of Buckingham, and also in the intellectual environment of the Edinburgh Tytlers, who had … could trace descent from the early Scottish kings. While attending Trinity College, Dublin, he also became an ardent …
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… to London where he probably worked as a gunsmith before entering the Church Missionary Society training school at Islington. He was not ordained and later served as a catechist and lay missionary. He married …
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