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… be run. While these have evolved over time, the overall set of attitudes towards politics in contemporary New Zealand … prejudice. Rights of British subjects Article Three of the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840, extended the rights of British …
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Part of story: Political values
… beyond Northland, but eventually spread down the west coast of the North Island. By 1840 Methodist mission stations were … for Māori in society, leading debate on the place of the Treaty of Waitangi in the 1980s. Māori response In 1971 Rua Rakena, …
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Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations
… up Māori land councils and Māori councils. The purpose of the Māori land councils was to administer Māori land. … when it won landmark cases about Māori rights under the Treaty of Waitangi in court. …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… Whiti had helped passengers and crew escape from the wreck of the Lord Worsley ; four years later, endorsed by Te Ua, … the rangatiratanga (chieftainship) guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi. Government sacks Parihaka Responding to the …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… The seal of New Zealand is an instrument of sovereignty representing … William Hobson used a small seal, with sealing wax, on the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. This seal bore the royal arms with the … The seal of New Zealand …
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Part of story: Coat of arms
… The enduring Moriori Despite the events of the previous century, Moriori held positions of … recently descendants have been involved in claims to the Waitangi Tribunal and in Moriori organisations. New … to the world. In 2020 Hokotehi Moriori Trust settled its treaty claims with the Crown. The terms included a Crown …
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Part of story: Moriori
… Parore Te Āwha, of the hapū Te Kuihi, was born at Mangakāhia, probably … he probably deputed his son, Te Ahu Parore, to sign the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February. During the northern war Parore was …
Type: Biography
… At the beginning of the 20th century New Zealand was, in effect, two separate … had the finest race relations in the world, and that the Treaty of Waitangi was the fairest treaty ever made by Europeans with …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… had opened up new possibilities not just for the control of public spending but also for evaluating spending, though … a figure of around $1 billion to meet all claims under the Treaty of Waitangi redress process, and the government settled on this …
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Part of story: Treasury
… protest generally. This was linked to the influence of American and European counter-culture movements, which … grounds. In the same year, the government set up the Waitangi Tribunal to investigate Crown breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi and their detrimental effects on Māori. …
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Part of story: Parades and protest marches
… Gardening Gardening is a favourite hobby of New Zealanders and has rated highly in recreation … found relief from his difficult work in gardening. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in the garden of his property at …
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Part of story: Domestic recreation and hobbies
… also known as Kāwana Pitiroi Paipai, was born near the end of the eighteenth century. He had connections with Ngāti … to be presented to the Duke of Edinburgh. In 1881, at Waitangi, he accompanied Mete Kīngi Te Rangi Paetahi at a meeting of northern tribes called to discuss the Treaty of Waitangi. Paipai held land at Pūtiki, a reserve …
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… designed dwellings were influenced by a range of overseas precedents. While architects have designed only … Te Waimate (1831–32) and Mangungu (1838–39), and the Treaty House at Waitangi (1833–34). All were built in timber. Treaty House …
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Part of story: Domestic architecture
… Te Wherowhero was born in Waikato towards the end of the eighteenth century. He was the eldest son of a … In March 1840 Captain W. C. Symonds brought a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi to Manukau, where Te Wherowhero was living at …
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… who gave his name to Stewart Island (Rakiura). Some of these early Scots stayed to live. John Nicol (‘Scotch … appointed British Resident in New Zealand. He settled at Waitangi – where he lived in the house now known as the Treaty House – and planted New Zealand’s first vineyard. …
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Part of story: Scots
… for abolition in the 1950s after Labour, with the support of its Rātana allies, held power for 14 years between 1935 … it would abolish the Māori electorates when all historic Treaty of Waitangi settlements had been resolved, which it aimed to …
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Part of story: Ngā māngai – Māori representation
… Native Land Court was established by the Native Lands Acts of 1862 and 1865 to investigate titles to Māori land. As the … to waive in favour of the Natives so much of the said Treaty of Waitangi as reserves to Her Majesty the right of pre-emption …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… An inherited legal system Many of New Zealand’s laws, including the ones that govern … Māori customary law of that time, despite the fact that the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840. New Zealand also embraced …
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Part of story: Law and the economy
… From Kaiapoi, Ngāi Tahu incorporated the southern sections of Ngāti Māmoe and Waitaha, who already occupied the South … In fact, all the southern South Island signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 were descendants of this union, and of all …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… in Germany or Austria, probably in 1810 or 1811, the son of an army officer. His mother's name was Eliza Kuhne. … to Wellington on foot. He was back in Nukutaurua when the Treaty of Waitangi was brought to the area in May 1840. He spent some …
Type: Biography