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… Hōne Taiapa The dramatic shift of many Māori from rural communities to the cities after the … take part in the 1940 commemoration of the centenary of the Treaty of Waitangi. Eventually, however, only two new canoes ( Aotea …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… into Hokianga Harbour and began the institutional history of Catholicism in New Zealand. The Catholics were late … the newly created diocese of Wellington. Pompallier and the Treaty of Waitangi In 1840 New Zealand became a British colony and …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… Rehutai Maihi was the elder of two daughters of Te Paea Nehua and her husband, Nētana … She invited contributions and included the text of the Treaty of Waitangi in the first issue. Aotearoa was unusual at the …
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… know the northern South Island as Te Tau Ihu (the prow) of the canoe of the demigod Māui. There are eight mutually … from Māori by the Crown between 1853 and 1860. In 2008 the Waitangi Tribunal ruled that the Crown had breached the Treaty of Waitangi, including by failing to set aside …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… Te Mātenga Tāmati Aside from Rua Kēnana, there were a number of claimants to be Te Kooti’s predicted successor. Mātenga … medium and healer who flourished around the time of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840). In 1910 Mere baptised herself seven times …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… New Zealand, the monarch has symbolised the nation. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in Queen Victoria’s name. Since then … Place of royalty in New Zealand …
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Part of story: Royal family
… 1855 or 1856 and known as Mere Rikiriki, was the daughter of Kāwana Rōpiha (also known as Kāwana Hūnia) of Ngāti … of the Holy Spirit and the unity of Māori under God and the Treaty of Waitangi. Mere Rikiriki was small, had a light moko and wore …
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… States The internationally celebrated Māori art exhibition of 1984–87, Te Māori, represented a critical moment, when … the nation’s growing awareness of its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi to address past wrongs. Te hokinga mai – the return …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… by collectors. New Zealand Post has been the only issuer of legal-tender commemorative coins since 2002. The private … they were traded by Māori as a form of currency. Coins The Waitangi crown, which was issued in 1935, is not strictly a … in 1990 to mark the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi . A $10 millennium banknote was issued …
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Part of story: Coins and banknotes
… people had authority over Murihiku, the southern part of the South Island, and their traditions are included in … by the colonial government which was set up after the Treaty of Waitangi was first signed in February 1840. In June 1840 …
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Part of story: Otago region
… Tāmati Moko was born at Rotorua on 9 May 1885, the son of Tāmati Moko and his wife, Rawinia Te Whau Wharetutu. He … was intended to bring the Māngai's enlightenment and the Treaty of Waitangi to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and to …
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… A protest march is a procession of people along streets or roads to publicise a grievance. … south and filled Parliament’s grounds. Later that year the Waitangi Tribunal was set up to investigate Crown breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. In 2004 a large hīkoi protesting against …
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Part of story: Public protest
… information, Maihi Parāone Kawiti was born in the Bay of Islands at Waiōmio, the cradle of Ngāti Hine, in 1807; … lands Maihi became disillusioned about the influence of the Treaty of Waitangi, which his father had signed. In a letter to the …
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… flaxes and cabbage trees that are popular are creations of human hands. Hebe The hebe group has nearly 100 species. … some became wary of working with native plants while the Waitangi Tribunal hearing into the Indigenous Flora and … remained unresolved. Under this claim Māori assert that the Treaty of Waitangi guarantees them ownership rights to …
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Part of story: Horticultural use of native plants
… services. This mana is also highlighted by the reproduction of chiefs’ moko as signatures when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The correlation between the mana and tapu …
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Part of story: Tā moko – Māori tattooing
… Tourism The 1890s was the beginning of the riverboat era, when the river acquired international … petitions and court action; these led in the 1990s to the Waitangi Tribunal hearings, and after that the settlement … ancestor and a source of material and spiritual sustenance. Treaty settlement Ruruku Whakatupua, the Whanganui River …
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Part of story: Whanganui tribes
… (Maggie) Waaka was born on 4 May 1888 at Kai Iwi, north of Whanganui. She belonged to Ngāti Pūkeko, a hapū of Ngā … like Rātana's, believed that the ratification of the Treaty of Waitangi would help resolve Māori grievances over land and …
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… Iwikau, the second surviving son of Herea, the first Te Heuheu Tūkino , and the child of … Henry Williams to take part in the deliberations about the Treaty of Waitangi. Impressed by Williams's explanation of the treaty, …
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… pā near Kaiapoi. His father, a carpenter, later a skipper of boats, wheat farmer and minister of religion, was John … of the powers of mākutu possessed by tohunga, to use the Treaty of Waitangi to seek statutory equality and justice for Māori, …
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… Kura kaupapa In response to the increasing number of kōhanga reo graduates, kura kaupapa (Māori-language … Wellington Māori Language Board) lodged a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal seeking official status for the language. … acknowledged as a taonga (treasure) under Article II of the Treaty of Waitangi and recognised as an official language. …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language