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… ‘Pākehā–Māori’ was the 19th-century term for Europeans who … from Australia. In 1833 there were said to be about 70 Pākehā–Māori, mostly runaways, in the Hokianga area alone. … goods and skills and needed someone to negotiate with Pākehā on their behalf. Before 1840 Pākehā–Māori were the …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… welcomed by Māori because of the resources they offered. Pākehā-Māori From the late 1820s traders and adventurers … farming and commerce. Some married Māori women, becoming Pākehā-Māori (Europeans who lived within Māori tribes). … about pressure to sell their land to the Crown for Pākehā settlement. Their traditional system of collective …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… the tribe, taking prominent Maniapoto women as their wives. Pākehā–Māori unions Louis Hetet was a settler with an … Te Wai married Te Toko Turner, the son of another prominent Pākehā–Māori, William Turner, who gave rise to the large … The coming of the Pākehā …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… Individuals and small groups of Pākehā lived in the region before organised European settlement began. Supply problems The first Pākehā settlers encountered a few vexing, and probably … including Pātea (1865) and Hāwera (1866). From this period Pākehā settlement expanded north into Taranaki from …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… (56.8%) were in Whanganui city – a similar proportion to Pākehā. Rātana movement The Rātana movement began after its … leader and healer. Through the 1920s many Māori and some Pākehā flocked to Rātana’s home on a farm outside Whanganui, … Māori and Pākehā …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… contact The first recorded contact between Māori and Pākehā was in December 1642, when four crew members of Abel … Coming of the Pākehā …
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Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… Pākehā men pursuing whales off the coast of Aotearoa New … from Britain began, and relations between Māori and Pākehā soon deteriorated. … Māori–Pākehā relations …
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… to population growth has been natural increase. Pākehā fertility was high in the 19th century. From the … Weddings and babies In the 19th century the fertility of Pākehā women in New Zealand was much higher than that of … – about two births per woman fewer. Declining fertility Pākehā fertility rates started to drop in the late 1870s. In …
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Part of story: Population change
… had a cumulative effect, and life expectancy at birth for Pākehā rose markedly. Pākehā women in New Zealand were the first population in the … in the late 1870s. In 1874 life expectancy was 48 for Pākehā men and 50 for Pākehā women, and by 1891 it was 55 … Pākehā epidemiological transition …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… Early trade In initial exchanges between Māori and Pākehā trade worked on two levels. The first was an extension to Pākehā explorers of the traditional practice of the … bartering skills developed with increased contact with Pākehā. Early visitors often commented on Māori bargaining …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… many Māori opposed the sales. Relations between Māori and Pākehā deteriorated after nearly 600 Te Āti Awa returned … hapū at Bell Block during the 1850s. This alarmed many Pākehā settlers, and as a result of their submissions, … – longer than in any other New Zealand region – Māori and Pākehā society in Taranaki was fractured by periodic …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… in the early 1970s about the relationship between a young Pākehā woman and a Māori man. Films about the complexity of … Pākehā love stories …
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Part of story: Love and romance
… naming displaced Māori names. This was little discussed by Pākehā at the time. Māori continued to use their own place … Māori and Pākehā names …
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Part of story: Place names
… as bushmen or shearers – and, with the rapid rise in the Pākehā population, a minority. By 1891 there were more than four Pākehā to every Māori in Poverty Bay. Ngāti Porou, under the … in sheep farming on their own account. Relatively few Pākehā families settled in their territory. However, Māori …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… Age structure Pākehā age structures have changed over time and are … working-age people increases. This pattern occurred in the Pākehā population in the first third of the 20th century. In … 15. This change is called structural ageing. Dependency Pākehā dependency ratios (the notional support burden placed …
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Part of story: Population change
… complications arising from land dealings between Māori and Pākehā. Settlement Pākehā who enthusiastically promoted and developed the … in the wider urban area. Growth of the region The region’s Pākehā population reached 25,000 in 1926 (the Māori … Pākehā settlement, 1870 to 1940 …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… (South Africa) after Grey had left New Zealand. Another Pākehā recorder of Māori oral tradition was John White , … yielding their songs and stories to a form controlled by Pākehā. Though purportedly directed at Māori, these books … Early publishing for Pākehā and Māori …
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Part of story: Publishing
… For Pākehā, as for Māori, land ownership was the most important … Early Pākehā land settlement …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… resulted from labour-force transformation which saw Pākehā workers increasingly employed in the secondary … in terms of employment by the 1920s. The only time the Pākehā primary sector has had more than 50% of employees was … Pākehā geographic distribution and labour force …
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Part of story: Population change