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… them, not out of an altruistic interest in recording the history and traditions of his people, but because writing … of earning money. He filled over 30 notebooks with legends, history, proverbs, incantations and genealogies. Much of the … to put his considerable knowledge of the traditions and history of his people to use; his oral submissions are now a …
Type: Biography
… were important early recorders of the geology and natural history of New Zealand. They saw science as unfolding the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… Party (NZP) had a brief but bright moment in political history. It was set up as a protest against the National …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Political parties
… ‘talk of nothing else but the extermination of the poor Maoris.’ 1 Two years later, British troops arrived to … of the 1860s represented, overall, the lowest point in the history of New Zealand’s race relations. More than 2,000 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… of general editor Jock Phillips’s strengths in immigration history. There followed groupings of several themes on the land, natural history, society and culture. The final theme on creative … two parts. The first examined the region as a whole – its history, environment, culture and statistical profile – and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… has been noteworthy in the fields of ethics, logic, and history of philosophy, particularly early modern philosophy … has little or no relevance to the fields of logic and the history of philosophy, and the related work of New Zealand …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Philosophy
… farmland. More than 2,700 state houses were built. Māori history The new city obscured much of Porirua’s history. The earliest human habitation dates back to 1450 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington places
… secretary and interpreter, researching and recording tribal history and whakapapa, and assisting him with petitions and … and prepared a handwritten, illustrated book on Māori history for the royal family in 1953. Ruru’s other community …
Type: Biography
… to send their clever daughter to Queen Victoria College for Maori Girls in Auckland. During that year Ramai thrived … closing of China’s borders in 1949. On that trip Ramai made history when Rudall filmed her wearing a piupiu and … on Māori specifically: Eel history was a mystery , Arts of Maori children (1962), English language teaching for Maori …
Type: Biography
… work on the lives of people who shaped this country’s history and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first … people who have made a significant mark on New Zealand history across all fields of endeavour. It also includes … What other biographies are available on Te Ara and NZHistory? G.H. Scholefield's A dictionary of New Zealand …
Type: Basic page
… language and literature. His books on Māori topics include Maori marriage (1960), The structure of New Zealand Maaori (1961), Let’s learn Maori (1969), The complete English–Maori dictionary (1981), Nga iwi o Tainui: the traditional history of the Tainui people (with Pei Te Hurinui Jones , …
Type: Biography
… of the Native Land laws and practice, as well as of Maori history and custom'. In 1927 Cooper was native associate to … that earlier that night he had arranged his Māori and history books on shelves for his elder son to read. William …
Type: Biography
… radio scripts on Māori culture, women's life and natural history. Her series, ‘The Māori way of life today’, was … and a social study of Maketū. In 1972 she published A history of Rotorua. Enid's final project was to write a book …
Type: Biography
… Christian missionaries had a biblical interpretation of history, in which all people were the descendants of Noah …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… A long tradition The history of visual arts, crafts and design in New Zealand …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Creative life
… became an important point of distinction. New Zealand as Maoriland Australians were also searching for a sense of … extensive coverage of New Zealand topics under the heading ‘Maoriland’. This was partly because there were a few … they believed that Māori legends could provide an instant history for newcomers, and that Māori could make, as the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: The New Zealanders
… how much they can talk about sensitive aspects of tribal history. Rural tourism agencies In the late 1990s rural …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rural tourism
… a relatively brief though crucial period in the region’s history. A name bestowed by Europeans, it recalls the period …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: King Country region
… decade The 1970s were a seminal decade in Māori demographic history. After post-war improvements in mortality, rapidly …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… however, he developed a keen interest in the language, history and traditions of the Māori people. On 5 February …
Type: Biography