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… it was an island (Arapawa or Arapāoa) and that a stretch of water separated the island from land in the distance. … Tory Channel, as a minor part of the Marlborough economy. Treaty and land ownership The Treaty of Waitangi was signed by 27 chiefs at Queen Charlotte Sound on …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… 1958–61), John Scott produced the most enduring masterpiece of New Zealand modernism. Scott and Wiremu Taurau Royal, the … the aftermath of the 1975 hīkoi (land-rights march) and the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 politicised contemporary Māori artists. …
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Part of story: Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu
… at Kaiawe, near Waireia, northern Hokianga, in 1851. He was of Ngāti Te Reinga of Waihou, and Te Rarawa ; his hapū, Te … Zealand at Mangungu in 1835; Pāpāhia was a signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi; Ngākahuwhero married Muriwhenua, and their son …
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… National identity is a form of social identity – meaning people’s understanding of who … political authority and shared identity. The signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 by chiefs of iwi from around the country …
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Part of story: New Zealand identity
… New Zealand. He was descended from Nukutawhiti, commander of the Ngā-toki-mata-whao-rua canoe, which made its landing … confronted by Hobson and other British officials at the Waitangi meeting on 5 and 6 February 1840. He refused to sign the treaty for fear that his sacred moko would provide the means …
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… England, and was baptised on 16 October. He was the son of Mary Bradbury and her husband, Samuel Ironside, who had … reasonably fluent in Māori. He witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi at Waitangi and defended its integrity all his …
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… his father, John Robert Brown, was a whaler, possibly one of John Wade's men stationed at Te Kopi. Tunuiārangi … a supporter of Rāniera Te Wharerau's proposal to use the Treaty of Waitangi to protect Māori and to regulate future relations …
Type: Biography
… ‘history from below’. This meant scepticism about official documentary sources and an appreciation of informal … history The Māori protest movement and the demands of the Waitangi Tribunal sparked renewed interest in Māori history. … Pacific peoples, Claudia Orange’s best-selling book on the Treaty of Waitangi, and Judith Binney’s deep involvement …
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Part of story: History and historians
… South Taranaki, on 7 November 1898, the eldest son of a Māori Methodist minister, Robert Tahupōtiki Haddon of … Board in 1933 to paint a picture of the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The painting was presented to the governor …
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… Tāwhiao, of Ngāti Mahuta in the Tainui confederation of tribes, was … major issues that confronted Māori after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 were the desire of the growing settler …
Type: Biography
… has undergone a renaissance recognised for its breadth of expression and innovation. This renaissance was propelled … of iwi and hapū identity. Health The principles of the Treaty of Waitangi were also applied to the provision of health …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… from the late 18th century. Probably the most well-known of these was Thomas Halbert, an Englishman who disembarked … and Te Aitanga a Hauiti) signed a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi. Land was subsequently sold or leased, and more …
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Part of story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes
… Flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand The need for a state … Zealand became a British colony after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. However, Māori continued to fly the United Tribes’ …
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Part of story: Ngā haki – Māori and flags
… – a view that colonials had rights at least equal to those of British residents back ‘home’. The Wellington Settlers’ … ‘established’ (official) church. During discussion of the Treaty of Waitangi on 5 February 1840, the missionary Henry Williams …
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Part of story: Political values
… Kāpiti, a roughly rectangular island of 2,000 hectares, lies off Wellington’s western coast … wool came from Mana Island. After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, most Ngāti Toa left Kāpiti and Mana to …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… in the 1970s and 1980s The 1970s saw the introduction of in-service training courses in Māoritanga for teachers … in the education system since the early 1900s. The Waitangi Tribunal’s 1986 Te Reo Māori Report found that … ‘the education system is being operated in breach of the treaty’. 1 In 1998 the Ministry of Māori Development, Te …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… or 1872 near Ōtaki. His grandmother, Te Rerehau, a woman of chiefly rank of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, married Te Tomo (also … of the elder, Marumaru. In the 1934 festivities held at Waitangi to mark the gift by the governor general, Lord Bledisloe , of the Waitangi Treaty House property to the country, Te Tāite judged the …
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… or toetoe for thatching, which was attached to battens, often made from mānuka. Slabs of tree ferns were used for … with diagonal braces to resist the force of the wind. Treaty treenails The Waitangi Treaty House was prefabricated in Australia and …
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Part of story: Building materials
… and Rugby, born in Gisborne on 7 July 1875, was one of three children. The family returned to Hobart in 1880 or … unanimously supported a motion that the provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi be enshrined in statute. Pratt believed that the …
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… Te Houkāmau, of Ngāti Porou, was descended from Te Rangi-i-pāia I, and … signatures of Māori in the East Coast area to a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi. At the invitation of Te Houkāmau he went to the …
Type: Biography