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… Maketū, also known as Maketū Wharetōtara, the son of Ngāpuhi chief Ruhe, was born in the hinterland of the Bay … good cause for intertribal hostility. Christianity and the Treaty of Waitangi had largely brought peace to the Bay of Islands …
Type: Biography
… James Cook Lieutenant James Cook sailed across the Bay of Plenty in the Endeavour in 1769, but the region had … missionary Alfred Brown collected signatures for the Treaty of Waitangi, in April and May 1840. The trader and former …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… The eventual catalyst for Māori studies to become part of tertiary education was the migration of Māori to cities … Māori resource management, indigenous studies, the Treaty of Waitangi and the settlement of Māori land claims against the …
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Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… Australasians After the advent of the Liberal government, another public event that helped … people’ proclaimed by William Hobson at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The ‘amalgamation’ practised by the …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… The two decades after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi were marked more by cooperation between Māori and …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… Te Mete Raukawa of Ngāti Hangarau, a section of Ngāti Ranginui, was born at … Tana Taingākawa 's petition concerning violation of the Treaty of Waitangi. In 1900 Tauranga's Catholic Māori opened a new …
Type: Biography
… Arrival of television The arrival of television in 1960 meant that … fishing and development posed to the Kaipara Harbour and Treaty of Waitangi obligations. Women’s documentaries Documentaries by …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Documentary film
… that he was born in April 1793. He was the eldest son of Charles Antoine de Thierry, or Thierry, a French merchant … This prospect was finally thwarted by the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. During the war of 1845–46 in the north of …
Type: Biography
… a voter to support the Green Party concerns relating to the Treaty of Waitangi, or to levels of inequality among Māori, may be …
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Part of story: Political values
… Ireland, on 24 October 1810. He was the seventh child of George Maunsell, a collector of customs and later a … gained 32 Māori signatures to an English text of the Treaty of Waitangi, although he failed to persuade Pōtatau Te …
Type: Biography
… Pana-kareao was an influential leader of Te Pātū hapū of Te Rarawa. At the time of his birth his … in Kaitāia in April 1840, seeking ratification of the Treaty of Waitangi, Pana-kareao was welcoming, although Te Rarawa …
Type: Biography
… National flags are a symbol of nationhood and are venerated by many. For this reason, … options, which were considered by a gathering of chiefs at Waitangi on 20 March 1834. The flag chosen was one used by … Tribes’ flag as the recognised flag of New Zealand when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February 1840. The United …
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Part of story: Flags
… Mete Kīngi Te Rangi Paetahi was of Ngā Poutama and Ngāti Tūmango of Te Āti … with Kāwana Paipai of Ngāti Ruaka, he attended a meeting at Waitangi, Bay of Islands, which discussed the Treaty of Waitangi. Mete Kīngi's last official act was to …
Type: Biography
… There were two main sources of business failure – reckless immigration schemes and property speculation – in the first 25 years after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840. Immigration schemes Immigration …
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Part of story: Business failures and corporate fraud
… named Cooks Lookout was erected in 1970. Herds of feral goats, sheep and pigs, all with distinctive genetic … also has relics of the whaling days. Nine signatures on the Treaty of Waitangi were gathered at the bay by Major Thomas Bunbury on …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough places
… at Durham, England, probably on 24 December 1812, the son of Matthew Buddle, a cordwainer, from a prominent Anglican … and wars; he added, somewhat incongruously, that the Treaty of Waitangi should nevertheless be kept in good faith. In spite …
Type: Biography
… the chiefs Rākaihautū and Tamatea. Rākaihautū, an ancestor of the Waitaha people, was a commander of the Uruao waka … the most powerful chief in the south. Tūhawaiki signed the Treaty of Waitangi in June 1840. But within a few years he was dead, …
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Part of story: Southland region
… (1980), and Shereen Maloney created an intimate portrait of her mother in Irene 59 (1981). Other experiments with the … to celebrate the 1940 centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and screened in 1996 to celebrate the centenary of …
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Part of story: Documentary film
… First arrivals In spite of scattered traces of occupation, little is known about … nephew Tūhawaiki made Ruapuke Island a headquarters. The Treaty of Waitangi was brought there for signing in 1840. Lutheran …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… social as well as economic reasons. In 1885 the inspector of hospitals, Dr G. W. Grabham, declared: ‘the provision of … debated whether this was an obligation under the Treaty of Waitangi or whether only Māori who could not pay should …
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Part of story: Hospitals