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… welfare. There is no universally agreed and definitive list of all human rights. History of the human-rights idea The … place for human rights in the United Nations Charter, the treaty which founded the organisation in 1945. Three years … of the citizen in relation to the state. The Treaty of Waitangi has sometimes been referred to as ‘the Māori Magna …
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Part of story: Human rights
… The musket-wars period The musket wars were a series of Māori tribal battles involving muskets (long-barrelled … as they were in 1840, after the musket wars, when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. Population The death toll from the …
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Part of story: Musket wars
… for this remarkable change was 1840. In that year the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. This established British authority in …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… Taiwhanga, the son of Tawatawa and his wife, Wāhi, was a direct descendant of … for protection against supposed French threats and at the Waitangi treaty negotiations in 1840 he spoke in favour of accepting …
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… first chief justice, William Martin, the youngest son of Henry Martin, a manufacturer, and his wife, Mary Martin, … sovereignty of the Queen, which had been recognised by the Treaty of Waitangi just two years before. After hearing argument from …
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… according to family information on 6 June 1869, the first of 12 children of Niurangi Pūriri and Hōne Ngāpua. A direct … granduncle Hōne Heke Pōkai , who, after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, had led the opposition to the government to draw …
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… was born at Gisborne on 13 January 1896 to Matire Ngāpua of Ngāpuhi , and her husband, John Claudian (Claudius) … Hōne Heke Pōkai , the Bay of Islands leader who signed the Treaty of Waitangi but later cut down the Kororareka flagstaff. Her …
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… to the welfare, land rights, culture and education of his people. His first name was that of a Ngāti Whātua and … for harvesting oysters, arguing that it contravened the Treaty of Waitangi. He gave support to the upgrading of the Native …
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… was born in the late eighteenth century. He was the son of Te Kaharunga and of Rewa, daughter of Te Rangitūmamao. … its construction site in the bush. Tāraia did not sign the Treaty of Waitangi. When Major Thomas Bunbury presented the treaty to …
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… was Waimārama Pene Ruruanga, who was from a senior line of Waikato and Ngāti Maniapoto. His father was Paratene … into conflict during the centennial celebrations for the Treaty of Waitangi in 1940. He was the fugleman (the leader and …
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… was born at Havelock, Marlborough, on 8 August 1874, of Rangitāne , Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Apa and Muaūpoko descent. … Party policies, seeing them as directly contrary to the Treaty of Waitangi. In 1925 he contested the Southern Māori seat, and …
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… at birth as Poata Paikea, was a great-great-grandson of the paramount Te Uri-o-Hau chief Paikea Te Hekeua. As … to encourage his constituents to petition Parliament over Treaty of Waitangi breaches, and there was a significant increase in …
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… Hāmiora Wiremu Maioha, of Ngāi Tawake hapū of Ngāpuhi resident in the Bay of … to celebrate Lord Bledisloe 's gift to the nation of the Waitangi treaty house site and to lay the foundation stone of a …
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… in Penzance, Cornwall, England. He was the eldest child of Samuel May Colenso, a saddler and town councillor of … work of this sort was the printing of the Māori text of the Treaty of Waitangi on 17 February 1840. At the signing his cautious …
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… Māori population continued its downward spiral in the wake of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, reaching a low of about 42,000 in 1896. … Decades of despair, 1840–1900 …
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Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… Muskets and war The arrival of Pākehā, who traded muskets with Māori, had a noticeable … a signatory to the Declaration of Independence. Trade and treaty By the late 1830s whaling stations were established … Hāpuku and Mātenga Tūkareaho of Wairoa signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, as did possibly three others of Ngāti …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… Northernmost town in New Zealand, with a 2013 population of 4,887. Kaitāia is the commercial and service centre for a … by Joseph Matthews and William Puckey, 61 chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi on 28 April 1840. Two early churches were replaced …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Hannah Retter was born two months before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and died as the treaty's centennial was being …
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… Te Kani a Takirau was of Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Ngāti Porou. Born near the end of … the CMS missionary William Williams , bearing a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi, visited Te Kani a Takirau on 16 May 1840, the …
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… Americans and Canadians Although they are only a fraction of New Zealand’s population, North Americans (people born in … a United States scientific expedition were present when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840. But British annexation made New … 1797–1870: years of opportunity …
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Part of story: North Americans