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… Tregear The key publication was Edward Tregear’s The AryanMaori (1885), which claimed that Māori were of pure Aryan … New Zealand with an instant culture – a romantic prehistory, distinctive symbols and a landscape already … of the dominant traits of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic race’. 2 ‘Maoriland’ was a common alternative name for New Zealand …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… Day, 6 February 1928, an elaborate pageant of Māori history, song and story was broadcast by all four national … some of you have not understood. I have been greeting my Maori people”.’ Pronunciation of Māori Also in 1928, a … It was a weekly 15-minute bulletin of news about 28 (Maori) Battalion. The broadcaster was Wiremu (Bill) Parker …
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Part of story: Māori radio – reo irirangi
… waiata (songs), whakataukī (proverbs), kōrero tawhito (history), pūrākau (stories) and whakapapa (genealogy) were important educative tools for transmitting an iwi’s history, values and models of behaviour. Whare wānanga The … kete tuauri represented knowledge of benign ritual and the history and practices of human lineages. Te kete tuatea was …
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Part of story: Māori education – mātauranga
… Empire. It was little wonder that Māori, with their own history of warfare, should take a deep interest in the …
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Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… compared, as examples of ethnography, ethnology or natural history. Archaeology offered yet another new label to …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… for playing tricks, especially against non-Māori. A history of the tribe records that one elderly Ngāti Porou … and modern culture. Hone Tuwhare’s 1972 poem ‘To a Maori figure cast in bronze outside the chief post office, …
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Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata
… first collection, Ko nga moteatea, me nga hakirara o nga Maori (1853), was in Māori and was printed in Wellington by … in 1879 appointed by the government to prepare an official history of Māori. Six bilingual volumes appeared from the …
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Part of story: Publishing
… part of their education: they learned family and tribal history, mythology and folklore from an early age, and this …
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Part of story: Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia
… Paora Tapsell, curator at the Rotorua Museum of Art and History, in 1990 Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, first curator Māori …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… painting showed the region as Tūhoe land, steeped in Tūhoe history. In 1997 it was taken from the visitor centre in …
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Part of story: National parks
… stories based on individuals and incidents in Māori history. Te Ohu Whakaari went on to produce plays written by … since the 1960s, formed a training scheme, Tamaki Creative Maori Arts, with Ruth Kapua in 1984. In 1985 Selwyn directed …
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Part of story: Māori theatre – te whare tapere hōu
… encounter with Māori. The man who gave New Zealand such a history was S. Percy Smith, surveyor-general and co-founder …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… International developments in history and local concerns about identity heightened the move away from history as ‘past politics’ and emphasised ‘history from below’. This meant scepticism about official …
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Part of story: History and historians
… This isolated region is known for its long and rich Māori history and heritage, its excellent surf beaches and its …
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… They work in diverse styles, influenced by the environment, history, politics and Māori and Pacific cultures. …
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… computers in databases, though they may also include oral history. Family histories Genealogies are often accompanied … and family histories to locate themselves in the history of their country and in particular geographical … are the ancestors in family histories. Mega-family history Individual genealogies and family histories have …
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Part of story: Genealogy and family history