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… Hilda Phillips was one of the best-known and most persistent critics of the Māori … cabal intent on entrenching racial inequality. Anti-Waitangi Tribunal activism and Let the truth be known … investigate Māori claims that the Crown was breaching the Treaty of Waitangi. It exerted relatively little influence …
Type: Biography
… born on 27 June 1887 at Riverton, Southland, the youngest of nine children of Robert Acheson, a merchant, and his … by insisting that he could take 'judicial notice' of the Treaty of Waitangi. In his 1929 judgement on Lake Omapere, near …
Type: Biography
… Whaling With the advent of whaling in Aotearoa (New Zealand) in the later 18th … have also asserted their rights, under Article Two of the Treaty of Waitangi (New Zealand’s founding document), to harvest …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… The name of the country New Zealand was named by a Dutch … Two statutory holidays relate to national identity. Waitangi Day is on 6 February, the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and has been a holiday since …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… masse into a labouring class. In the early 1900s over half of Māori workers were labourers. In 1943, anthropologist … in the late 20th century. After the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal, Māori lawyers and researchers worked on treaty claims. As iwi received settlements from claims, …
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Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society
… Te Rewharewha (coughing death), killed hundreds in a matter of weeks. Many old villages were abandoned, the dead left … to Matatā. Colonisation In 1840 Te Arawa opposed the Treaty of Waitangi. They were confident their prestige and authority …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… A 1920 survey showed that only about 19 acres (7.6 hectares) of Māori land remained for each of the 49,000 North Island … of Māori land legislation to include a reference to the Treaty of Waitangi. Its preamble acknowledged the special relationship …
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Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… In the early 19th century government officials in New South Wales and London, and British … was a key factor in the decision by many chiefs to sign the Treaty of Waitangi. In turn, the high regard for Māori held by British …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… Porou leader and tohunga at Ūawa (Tolaga Bay). His date of birth is not known, but he was an adult when the trader … peace was restored. Te Rangiuia was a signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi five years later. He put his moko on a copy of the …
Type: Biography
… greatest benefits came to dominate others. The musket wars of the 1820s and 1830s caused further disruption. Some … in order to settle historical Māori grievances under the Treaty of Waitangi. This process continues today. Many tribes have … The history of Māori social organisation …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… 1830s flax traders Thomas Ralph and Amos Kent, employees of Sydney-based merchant Joseph Montefiore, worked in Mōkau … please A small number of Ngāti Maniapoto Māori signed the Treaty of Waitangi. The missionary John Whiteley collected 10 …
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Part of story: King Country region
… Hepi Hoani Te Heuheu Tūkino was the seventh paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa , part of a line that traced its … Board, and sought to assert the legal supremacy of the Treaty of Waitangi at the Privy Council in London in 1940. Hepi was …
Type: Biography
… in 1853, Poverty Bay and the East Coast down to just north of Wairoa were included. The region only gained a seat on … was operated by local health provider Ngati Porou Hauora. Treaty of Waitangi claims settlements In 2011 the Crown acknowledged …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… 1800, at St Peter's, Thanet, Kent, England. He was the son of Elizabeth Palmer and her husband, Richard Hobbs, a … were converted in the 1830s. Prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in February 1840, Hobbs had lengthy discussions …
Type: Biography
… coastal Te Roroa village on fertile land a few miles south of Hokianga harbour. She was the youngest of four sisters … Rangatira Moetara of Ngāti Korokoro, a signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi, and Te Hana, niece of the paramount Te Roroa chief …
Type: Biography
… Unfulfilled promise of trade Land purchases were often justified to Māori on the … was an important aspect of the Ngāi Tahu claim to the Waitangi Tribunal in 1986. As in Dunedin, the loss of land … Ngāti Whātua chiefs, including Apihai Te Kawau, signed the Treaty of Waitangi, and Te Kawau invited Lieutenant-Governor …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… efforts. In 1962 the Māori library services committee of the New Zealand Library Association worked with the Māori … and attend the New Zealand Library School was announced. Treaty research The establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975 and, from 1985, the hearing of …
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Part of story: Libraries
… really exist as a distinct tribe. Before then, descendants of Apa-hāpai-taketake lived as part of other tribes and … unity. European recognition of Ngāti Apa In May 1840 the Treaty of Waitangi was brought to a settlement called Tāwhirihoe, at …
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Part of story: Ngāti Apa
… Most of New Zealand’s early organised European settlements set … mid-19th century. Overcrowding in Europe By 1840, when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, the cities of Britain and other parts … Origins of green spaces …
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Part of story: City parks and green spaces
… Redress for grievances In 1990 the Waitangi Tribunal began hearing the claims of Taranaki tribes relating to the land confiscations of the … and social structure and values’. 1 The historical treaty claims of the Taranaki iwi were settled in 2015. The …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe