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… Ceroc have gained popularity. Ethnic dance also has a long history, with Scottish and Irish folk-dancing clubs being …
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Part of story: Creative life
… is 12 km west of Riverton/Aparima. The area has a long history of Māori settlement. European settlers arrived to …
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Part of story: Southland places
… he had become the guardian of his people's tribal lore and history. …
Type: Biography
… placed him ‘at the forefront of mainstream New Zealand art history. But in a sense he also stands outside of it, both … of Education. He served in Tovey’s progressive Northern Maori Project (1954–59), an experiment in arts education … and his drawings were featured in the Department of Maori Affairs’ journal Te Ao Hou . Māori modernism Hōtere …
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… Ānaha Te Rāhui, set down a strong body of tribal history and whakapapa in the course of Te Arawa Native Land …
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… Range). The Featherston Heritage Museum explores the history of the Featherston Military Camp. History Featherston was first known as Burlings, after Henry …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… universally agreed and definitive list of all human rights. History of the human-rights idea The expression ‘human … they should enjoy. A further key rights document in English history is the Bill of Rights of 1688. This document …
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Part of story: Human rights
… of the C Company Memorial Museum in Gisborne, the C Company history publication Nga Tama Toa (2008), or He Tipua , …
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… by them. From both families he learnt of Te Kooti's history, and absorbed his religious predictions which … God at Maungapōhatu. This cycle was created from scriptural history, but its immediate purpose was to prevent the … his Supreme Court trial, the longest in New Zealand's legal history until 1977. Police lies were compounded by Māori …
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… poi dances and Māori games, and used Māori stories in history lessons. In order to develop activities of this kind …
Type: Biography
… loss of the two Māori colonels, Love and Baker. When the history of the battalion was being compiled, Kippenberger …
Type: Biography
… the country and objects made from them, and items about the history of the colony or which showed off its scenery. … the catalogue described as giving ‘a very fair idea of Maori life’ 4 . At Melbourne in 1888 the principal New …
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Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… and called for diversity, not a national uniformity. History The anti-national viewpoint was so strong that even …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… on administration programmes and research on Waikato-Tainui history. Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, a Māori-run tertiary …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… of Poker, the biggest poker tournament in New Zealand history. There were 306 participants, most of them …
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Part of story: Cards, board games and puzzles
… school in Blenheim. In 1949, when contributing to a school history, she wrote that 'to be asked to write of Tua Marina …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… a boy living on a racial frontier, Robert became fluent in Maori and acquired an enduring interest in Maori culture. When he left the Cambridge public school at … was a cultured man. He read voraciously in literature, history (Maori and colonial especially), and cultural …
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… including Neke Kapua, Tene Waitere and Eramiha Kapua. The Maori School of Arts and Crafts opened in 1927 at … in 1932, while the university was getting rid of a young history lecturer, J. C. Beaglehole, for his alleged …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life