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… Settlement Act 1881 In 1880, the Crown-appointed commission of enquiry, known as the West Coast Commission, considered … Europeans. For the first century after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, several Māori customs were recognised, at least in …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… the Wellington Harbour area for settlement. (The validity of this purchase was later disputed.) The following year, … Company purchase in 1839. The trust pursued claims with the Waitangi Tribunal to gain compensation for the losses … suffered since 1839. Te Āti Awa of Wellington shared in the treaty settlement signed on 19 August 2008 with Taranaki …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Wellington
… are awards and prizes? The terms ‘award’ and ‘prize’ are often used interchangeably. An award generally refers to a … The 1940 official commemorations of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi included one-off prizes for the best novel, short …
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Part of story: Awards and prizes
… Banks Peninsula Mass of volcanic hills (1,165 sq km) jutting from the Canterbury … annex New Zealand. By the time French settlers arrived, the Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and Māori chiefs had been …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… as instructing Māori in the customs, laws and government of the Pākehā, and, more directly, in The Mao ri Messenger – … Ngāti Whātua chiefs led by Āpihai Te Kawau, wrote about the Treaty of Waitangi, European customs, the Crown and how land should be …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… worlds and human nature. Setting In New Zealand, professional philosophy predominantly exists within … including race relations, colonisation, sovereignty, the Treaty of Waitangi, justice and the natural environment. Māori …
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Part of story: Philosophy
… and build support to correct it. Protests can take the form of an individual writing a letter to a newspaper – or a … For example, the 1975 Māori hikoi paved the way for the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process. Freedom to burn flag In 2007 …
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Part of story: Public protest
… visitors, but interest in Māori culture was growing, part of a worldwide expansion in cultural tourism. While Rotorua … Kayaks. Others, such as Ngāi Tahu Tourism, were funded from Treaty of Waitangi settlements. Running their own show In 1987 … Resurgence of the Māori tourist industry …
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Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… Rāwiri Rota Tāhiwi, a Native Land Court assessor, was of Ngāti Raukawa , and of the hapū Ngāti Maiōtaki. His … He was a namesake of his uncle, who was a signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi. He also used the name Kīngi Rāwiri Tāhiwi. He …
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… has always been a focus for those who live within sight of its 2,518-metre peak. The mountain appears in many guises … and Egmont would be official names for the peak. Following Treaty of Waitangi negotiations between Taranaki iwi and the Crown, it …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… born on Motungārara, a small island off Kāpiti Island, probably in the mid-1830s. He grew up … judgement Chief Justice James Prendergast declared that the Treaty of Waitangi was 'a simple nullity' having no legal effect, thus …
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… was born probably in the late 1820s. He was the son of Te Ngohiteārau, also known as Te Huatare, of Ngāti … was presented to Parliament in June 1883; they invoked the Treaty of Waitangi and the guarantee to the Māori of exclusive and …
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… Āpihai Te Kawau was born towards the end of the eighteenth century. His father was Tarahawaiki and … Harbour, on 20 March 1840, Te Kawau signed a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi. Ngāti Whātua were seeking British protection …
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… in Wellington holds key documents, including: signed copies of the Treaty of Waitangi the archives of the New Zealand Company, which …
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Part of story: Archives
… Hōne Te Kāuru Taiapa, one of 14 children and also known as John Taiapa, was born at … the whare rūnanga, the centennial meeting house beside the Treaty House at Waitangi. Neither Pine nor John knew much about Ngāpuhi …
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… such memorials in New Zealand. ‘Great men’ The only statues of local ‘great men’ in the European tradition, both in … of the first Ngāi Tahu pā at Kaiapohia (1899), and to the Treaty of Waitangi at Te Tii marae (1881). Also, Pākehā had a desire …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… New Asian migration Concerns about the arrival of Asians surfaced again in the 1990s. Changes to … between diverse peoples and fulfill the promise of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Commission also sponsored the New Zealand …
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Part of story: Ethnic and religious intolerance
… A last-minute verbal addition to the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, sometimes called the ‘fourth article’, guaranteed …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… rural groups felt excluded. They criticised the practice of funding organisations on the basis of historical … 1980s Māori and government agencies increasingly cited the Treaty of Waitangi as justification for services ‘by Māori for Māori’. …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… James Cook is a key figure in the history of New Zealand. On his first voyage he and his colleagues … crew). A line can be drawn from Cook’s first voyage to the Treaty of Waitangi. In his instructions to Cook, the Earl of Morton, …
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Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand