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… boxes). By the late 1920s Kelly was researching tribal history and collecting whakapapa, beginning with his wife’s … Kings. This was the period he researched and wrote his history of Tainui, initially collaborating with Pei Te …
Type: Biography
… whānau. Her skilled oratory and her extensive knowledge of history, tradition and lore made her a formidable exponent … and they mastered the waiata, the whakapapa and the history of their tribe. …
Type: Biography
… embroidered, went tramping, and researched West Coast history as well as continuing her work as a free-lance … Historical Story Books series and produced several school history texts. Her encounters with idiosyncratic West Coast …
Type: Biography
… fisheries. The Muriwhenua land report (1997) documented the history of land loss and its impact on the tribe. Initially, … million. Nineteen geographic names were altered, with dual Maori–English names for Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē/ Ninety Mile …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… of the year in 1948. Chapman graduated with an MA in History with first-class honours. His thesis, ‘The … Chapman would later lead through its formative years. History and political studies lecturer In 1948 Chapman was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of History at Auckland University College. He took up a …
Type: Biography
… than Scottish Presbyterianism. Deeply sympathetic to Maori and their culture, he was an important contributor to the decision in 1952 to grant the Presbyterian Maori synod formal powers. In the following year he attended … are explained. He also gave a superb introduction to church history over a three-year cycle, the last of which was from …
Type: Biography
… The building now houses the Rotorua Museum of Art and History Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa. The Te Arawa presence is …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… Pōtae (the King Country). It was a region steeped in Māori history and folklore, and a land of abundant food. The …
Type: Biography
… fluently and published his writings on traditional Māori history. After the first auctions of Rotorua land in 1880, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… not biting, to be rewarded by the minutes when they are. History Although Māori traditionally caught fish for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Recreational sea fishing
… to be a sore point with Māori in the 1950s and 1960s. The Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 made it easier for the … scholars to challenge accepted views of a benevolent treaty history and good Crown–Māori relations. Successive …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi
… found a companion to support his interests in natural history, Māori and Pacific ethnology, and above all New Zealand history. As early as 1865 he had exhibited moa bones and … exhibition displays (1889–90 and 1898) on early New Zealand history, which earned Hocken wider recognition. He published …
Type: Biography
… O. Williams, he received instruction on Scripture, church history and doctrine, liturgy and general subjects. On …
Type: Biography
… ki-te-Raki. It is here that we enter the realm of human history. Largely because of internal struggles between Ngāi … site of a stronghold of an earlier tribe, Waitaha, whose history and traditions Ngāi Tahu eventually adopted. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… spoke to numerous organisations on race relations, Māori history, Māori problems and a wide variety of other topics. …
Type: Biography
… up-ending like dabbling ducks. Breeding and life history Nests may be at ground level or up to 25 metres high …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wetland birds
… the Māori and English languages has dominated New Zealand’s history of translating and interpreting, many other …
Type: Story Page
… an edition of G. F. Angas’s Portraits of the New Zealand Maori painted in 1844 (with S. M. Mead, 1972). He was editor … Zealand. For his major work, Palmerston North: a centennial history (1973), he was awarded the J. M. Sherrard Award for regional history. He translated Danish material into English, notably …
Type: Biography
… and Hoani hosted many conferences on Ngāi Tahu tribal history and, in particular, that of Ngāti Kurī and their … she produced a vast amount of elegantly written traditional history. Her family worked with her at her bedside. One … to the major hui and negotiations. Her expertise in tribal history was widely respected and she played a significant …
Type: Biography
… lakes today share an outlet at Rotoiti’s western end. Māori history A number of war expeditions passed the lake from the … on the northern side of the lake, featured in much tribal history. To its east is Tokerau marae and to its west …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places