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… babies – lullabies which told whakapapa, legends and tribal history. …
Type: Story Front
… 2000s witnessed another flowering of government support for history publishing. Historical Branch expands After the … grants for historical research and publication and oral history projects. From 2000, when it was transferred to the … for Culture and Heritage, the branch was known as the History Group and members continued this work, as well as …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public history
… his early work he sought to communicate Māori culture and history to the wider public, and then produced major … Frank Sargeson and Janet Frame . He also wrote an important history of Moriori and several ground-breaking works of … peers but for ‘curious and intelligent general readers, Maori and Pakeha, who are not historians’. 12 The book was a …
Type: Biography
… learning. He had wide interests in literature and natural history but was not gifted academically. After two years at … novels. The latter reflected an intense curiosity about the history of Otago and Southland. From an early age Beattie … By the age of 11 he 'was well and truly smitten with the history microbe' and had begun to keep notebooks recording …
Type: Biography
… time he lived in Bulls, Downes had been interested in local history. One of his first articles, published in 1910 in the … of the New Zealand Institute , was on the 'Early history of the Rangitīkei and notes on the Ngāti Apa'. … opportunity to research and record all aspects of local history from his many Māori friends. This interest led him …
Type: Biography
… system being inherited from Britain, New Zealand has a history of innovation in law. …
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… and, more directly, in The Mao ri Messenger – Ko t e Karere Maori (1849–54) as civilising Māori. These ends were served … and to invite Māori opinion on the government. Te Waka Maori o Ahuriri (1863–71) was intended to generate goodwill … newspapers are a rich source of social and political history. Their content is mirrored, to a greater or lesser …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… for Newton (1861–69), and negotiator for peace with Waikato Maori on behalf of Governor George Grey in the late 1860s. … agent. In this position, Graham gave priority to helping Maori families with legal, health and housing problems, … and his relationships gave him a lifelong interest in Maori history, language, culture and artefacts. He drew on the …
Type: Biography
… John White’s collection of Māori traditions, The ancient history of the Maori . Government also supported Robert McNab to produce … in 1908 and 1914, and James Cowan to write his two-volume history, The New Zealand Wars , in the early 1920s. Lindsay …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public history
… such as Ngunguru (rumbling tides) reflect their seafaring history. Today, through the Ngātiwai Trust Board, Māori …
Type: Story Front
… a distinctive part of the country’s cultural and natural history. …
Type: Story Front
… the South Island. Rich in conflict and drama, and blending history and symbolism, these canoe traditions form a …
Type: Story Front
… built in different branches of the natural sciences, social history, clothing and textiles, decorative arts and … to New Zealand, scholar Hirini Moko Mead said, ‘The Maori people want to control their own heritage; they want … they want to control their own knowledge (matauranga Maori) and they want to present themselves their way to the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Museums
… from which surveyors had previously been driven by local Maori. Many of these experiences he later recorded in … Field surveying had necessitated frequent contact with Maori. While on survey expeditions he endeavoured to collect and record information on the traditional history and culture of local Maori. He was particularly …
Type: Biography
… language and collecting manuscripts on mythology, tribal history, proverbs, songs and whakapapa (genealogy). Edward … write the first ‘official’ ethnological work, The ancient history of the Ma ori , published in six volumes between … their own interpretations of Māori traditions and migration history, based on evidence given to the court. Alexander …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… Hauraki–Coromandel is a region of contrasts. It has a rich history of Māori occupation and European settlement, and was …
Type: Story Front
… it. That research was likely to include the traditional history of the claimants’ iwi, hapū or whānau (and in … or new interpretations of New Zealand’s race-relations history. Books partly based on tribunal research include: … Binney; The beating heart: a political and socio-economic history of Te Arawa , by Vincent O’Malley and David …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana
… did much to shape the way New Zealanders perceived their history. He was born at East Tāmaki on 14 April 1870. His … Cowan's lifelong fascination with Māori and colonial history grew out of his childhood experiences in this … for bush exploration and research into Māori and Pākehā history. Formative journalistic experiences included …
Type: Biography
… Wellington, taking courses on European and colonial history and English literature. Although New Zealand history was not then taught, F. L. W. Wood and J. C. … Historical Branch assume an advisory role for students of history requiring help with source material. During these …
Type: Biography