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… urging that places and objects significant in New Zealand history should be kept for future generations. Historic … collections of objects relating to both Māori and Pākehā history. Most identifying and classifying of sites and … researched sites. In museums volunteers often cared for the history collections. Historic reserves Former …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Public history
… how New Zealanders understood themselves and their history. A prominent poet and New Zealand’s most important … two books published in the late 1950s. The origins of the Maori Wars , based on his Auckland doctoral dissertation, … he continued to write. He finished his Kinds of peace: Maori people after the wars, 1870–85 (1991), and also …
Type: Biography
… by S. Percy Smith in Hawaiki: the original home of the Maori (1904) introduced Kupe as a Māori navigator to rival … the migration of Māori to these islands within a larger history of Polynesians that could be traced back to India, … in the Māori name for the sun. Edward Tregear ’s The Aryan Maori (1885) suggested that Māori had the same ancestry and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Non-fiction
… They share these characteristics, which have their roots in history, with Pacific Islanders. Race relations Until the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Society
… Edward Tregear , also encouraged Best in the study of Māori history and culture. Best's association with these local … a society to promote the study and recording of Polynesian history and culture. He became a foundation member of the … blocks. In his new position Best was able to record Tūhoe history and genealogy as it was debated before him. Best's …
Type: Biography
… teller. Smart still found time to do much research into the history of the town and region. In particular, he developed his interest in recording Maori history and customs. His thirst for knowledge, his retentive memory, and his sympathy for Maori made him a respected figure at marae on the Whanganui …
Type: Biography
… family stories. New interest Those who remembered family history were usually older. As the number of older people in … there were more people likely to be interested in family history. Social change made people feel more remote from … Genealogical magazines and guides to researching family history in New Zealand appeared. Most important was the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… because the Māori population was decreasing. A continuous history of Pākehā settlement dates from the 1850s. The heart … Māori in the 20th century Despite a vigorous history, the Māori population of Marlborough was not large …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough region
… featured people and places important in Northland’s Māori history. The photographers G. Radcliffe, Tudor Collins and … earliest. They now cater to a burgeoning tourist market. History and scholarship In the 19th century, Māori … the 20th century Ruth Ross and A. H. Reed pioneered serious history writing about Northland, and Dick Scott wrote Seven …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Northland region
… who should have been expected to be familiar with tribal history and traditions, have admitted that when they were … in the things of his generation and with songs that were history and geography in themselves! … A new era has dawned … to improve their knowledge of Tainui tikanga (customs) and history and to ensure the continuity of Tainui traditions …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… several of the major fights. In 1845 he began writing A history of the war in the north of New Zealand against the … the governor with outlandish stories about local natural history, including one about a 'Kaweau' lizard that flew … thought by Māori to be an ill omen. Maning's two books, A history of the war in the north and Old New Zealand , were …
Type: Biography
… ana tenei wahine me ana korero ano ...’ ‘(but with the Maori Runanga, all must assemble together, the small and the … the old woman these all obtain admittance to the Runanga Maori, with all their thoughts and speeches ... this woman … belief system. Mikaere states that Māori cosmology and history was retold to emphasise the male characters, while …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… and genealogies of his people. His first manuscript history was an account of the emigration of the Māori from … were incorporated into volume four of White's The ancient history of the Māori (1888). The editing was poor: … S. Percy Smith that White had distorted his account. Nahe's history began with the building of the Tainui canoe in …
Type: Biography
… Read a history of the Te Ara project . What is Te Ara? ‘Te ara’ in … guide to the country’s peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society. As an …
Type: Basic page
… Twentieth-century Ngāti Raukawa history is diverse and complex. The people experienced great …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… pre-European creation beliefs. Turning whakapapa into history Other Pākehā writers, such as Stephenson Percy Smith … because of assumptions that a Western form of linear history was the measurement of validity. This was also …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… more diverse and dispersed than at any other time in their history. Some continued to live in their traditional tribal …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori
… with relatively little ethnic diversity for much of its history, and this has encouraged intolerance of ethnic … an Australian civil servant and historian, published a History of New Zealand , which set out a long list of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… 1 Songs are also major sources of tribal oral tradition, history, geography, and political and social commentary, and … that her compositions ‘show that she was well-versed in the history of her tribes and had a good knowledge of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… in karakia, whaikōrero (oratory) and whakapapa, and the history and use of ancient weapons. He won the taiaha … Force and studied the great figures of European military history. Awatere was successfully to combine the Māori and … philosophy in 1955, and did extensive research into Māori history and ethnography. He served as a Māori district …
Type: Biography