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… The Māori protests of the 1970s and 1980s brought about important changes in … about bicultural New Zealand and acknowledge te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) as the country’s founding document. …
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Part of story: Biculturalism
… British explorer Lieutenant James Cook and the crew of the Endeavour landed at Tūranga on 8 October 1769. The … early in 1840. He gathered chiefly signatures to the Treaty of Waitangi later that year – 24 at Tūranga and 16 along the …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… was born at Kneesall, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of James Whiteley, a grocer, and his wife, Elizabeth Rainor. … coast of the North Island from Kāwhia to Mōkau to sign the Treaty of Waitangi, and in 1847 joined protests against the contents …
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… or management positions. The ‘Te Māori’ generation of qualified, museum-focused scholars was emerging from … Māori. The bicultural Māori–Pākehā expression of the Treaty of Waitangi applied across Te Papa, resulting in two teams … The challenges of the new century, 1997 onwards …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… social and political structures which led to the formation of new kinds of Māori organisations. Though new … never happened. The confederation was referred to in the Treaty of Waitangi as one of the groups signing up to the treaty. In …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… claims back to 1840. The tribunal also issued a number of landmark reports that reflected its growing importance as … understand. Sea and life In 1982, for the first time, the Waitangi Tribunal held a hearing on a marae belonging to a … of Crown actions that Māori considered had breached the treaty. Landmark claims and reports In its early years, the …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… included Māori traditions, customs and images in displays of New Zealand’s distinctive national identity. Cultural and … wānanga (universities) were set up to revive the language. Waitangi Tribunal Perhaps the most lasting and influential … recent (and from 1985, historical) breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. Some historians believe that its …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… The 20th century saw the emergence of several new Māori political parties. However, it was not … (foundational principle or idea) was ratification of the Treaty of Waitangi. Driven by the increasing poverty and landlessness …
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Part of story: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties
… In the early 2000s Māori business made up only a small part of the New Zealand economy (1.4%), mostly concentrated in … distress over the loss of land. The establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975, and subsequent law changes to allow for investigations into breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi back to 1840, began a period of redress, …
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Part of story: Ngā haumi a iwi – Māori investment
… meeting houses) were built in the mid-19th century, a time of social, political and spiritual change. Land sales to Pākehā, the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and Christianity all created a need for discussions … Rise of whare whakairo …
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Part of story: Māori architecture – whare Māori
… In the years before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, relations between Māori and Pākehā were …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… (Himi Te Nana) Tau Hēnare was born at Mōtatau in the Bay of Islands on 18 November 1911, the youngest of six sons and … of his people. His father had fought for recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi throughout his life, and James continued this …
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… Āperahama Taonui was the visionary leader of Ngāpuhi hapū Te Popoto of Utakura in the upper Hokianga, … known as Āperahama Taonui, he is thought to have signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 as Abaraham Tautoru. Considered by the …
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… on 17 April 1877 at Waiōmio, Kawakawa, in the Bay of Islands. He was the second son of Maihi Parāone Kawiti … Kawiti, Hōne Heke, Pōmare II and Tāmati Waka Nene – on the Waitangi National Trust Board, from 1932. He gave much practical assistance to restoring the Waitangi Treaty House and constructing the adjacent meeting house. A …
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… flags emerged in the lead-up to the New Zealand wars of the mid-19th century. Māori recognised the symbolic power … a hīkoi (march) from Te Rerenga Wairua (Cape Rēinga) to Waitangi in the lead-up to Waitangi Day in 1990. The flag … In 1999 protesters climbed a flagpole at the Waitangi treaty grounds and substituted the tino rangatiratanga flag …
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Part of story: Flags
… but a translation into English was made. A comparison of the two texts suggests that the English translation was … they). No ‘wh’ was used in the declaration (or in the later Treaty of Waitangi) as it had not come into use in Māori orthography. … The contents of the declaration …
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Part of story: He Whakaputanga – Declaration of Independence
… to have been born at a settlement on the lower reaches of the Wanganui River. Her mother, Titia, was of Te Arawa , … is indicated by her participation in the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. On 23 May 1840, along with her brothers Te Ānaua …
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… Crowning of Korokī The kingship was passed on to the eldest son of Te … His first major appearance was at the celebrations held at Waitangi in 1934 to mark Governor-General Lord Bledisloe’s gift of what is now known as the Waitangi Treaty grounds. Korokī led thousands of visitors onto the …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… In response to Māori activist protests of the 1970s and 1980s successive governments made changes to accommodate Māori expectations. The Waitangi Tribunal was established in 1975, the investigation … those claims began in the late 1980s. The principles of the Treaty of Waitangi made their way into legislation. Māori …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… The green, craggy south head near the coastal village of Ōmāpere was once a signal station for shipping. The north … established in 1828 by John Hobbs at Mangungu – where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed by some 60 chiefs on 12 February 1840. …
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Part of story: Northland places