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… Before the fighting in Bay of Plenty, a few Pākehā co-existed with many Māori. By 1870 trade between Māori and Pākehā had waned, and the missions had closed. Bay of Plenty …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… as a result of changes in technology, and contact with Pākehā culture. The migration of Māori to cities some … the closest to the form practised before the arrival of Pākehā. For this reason, of all Māori gatherings, the …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… The Polynesian Society By the 1880s Pākehā anthropologists were convinced that Māori and other … of sources. The early Polynesian Society was basically a Pākehā organisation of amateur anthropologists. Despite this, it had more Māori members, and more Pākehā members who spoke Māori, in its early years than at …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… contact was mainly through Māori doing seasonal work for Pākehā farmers, but in Rotorua it was mainly due to tourism. … to meet her lover on Mokoia Island, became well-known among Pākehā. It has inspired a musical work by Alfred Hill and a … Tuwharetoa , a history of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, in 1959. The Pākehā historian D. M. Stafford published a history of Te …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… only Māori researchers understood the issues involved. Many Pākehā anthropologists withdrew from Māori research, instead … other communities, including Pacific Islanders, Indians and Pākehā. By the 1990s Māori opposition to Pākehā anthropologists had somewhat subsided, with some …
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Part of story: Anthropology and archaeology
… my Maori people”.’ Pronunciation of Māori Also in 1928, a Pākehā speaker of Māori, J. F. Montague, broadcast a series … for many years. Leo Fowler In this period Leo Fowler, a Pākehā, was the manager of Gisborne’s radio station and … the country to record the reminiscences of both Māori and Pākehā. Wiremu (Bill) Kerekere (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki) was his …
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Part of story: Māori radio – reo irirangi
… non-Māori, and brought Māori under almost the same rules as Pākehā. Māori children’s tribal affiliations were rarely … But in some cases, especially if the birth mother was Pākehā, Māori families who wanted the child were set aside … 1960s when a Māori family whose son fathered a child with a Pākehā girl tried to adopt the baby: ‘His parents said that …
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Part of story: Adoption
… in Paihia, in the Bay of Islands, in which Māori and Pākehā boys played together. In 1835 English naturalist … and partners).’ 2 Māori teams are recorded as playing Pākeha teams. For example, a report from 1882 has a junior … club at Kaiapoi. The Māori team got 94 runs against the Pākehā boys’ 35. One player, J. Uru (probably John Hopere …
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Part of story: Māori and sport – hākinakina
… often as acknowledgements of agreements or relationships. Pākehā also bought, traded for and sometimes stole taonga. … of exhibitions were held in the colony itself. Generally Pākehā exhibited Māori taonga to illustrate European … began breaking down under the pressure of land alienation, Pākehā collectors easily acquired taonga and ancestral human …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… was by 1900 under 50,000 and posed no military threat to Pākehā dominance, but also because some intellectuals … the women’s suffrage leader Kate Sheppard said, ‘Maori and Pakeha have become one people, under one Sovereign and one … also claimed that the war confirmed the union of Māori and Pākehā as New Zealanders ‘when their blood co-mingled in the …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… North Island. Māori fought alongside, as well as against, Pākehā, and warm friendships developed between the British … women moved to cities and worked in factories alongside Pākehā women. Often the two peoples were in close contact … Second World War Māori gained much greater respect from Pākehā during the Second World War, when 28 (Māori) …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… suburbs caused a range of social problems and many of the Pākehā residents moved out as soon as possible. In 1966 Pākehā made up 62% of the population of Ōtara. In 2006 only 15% were Pākehā. They were outnumbered by Māori and more than half …
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Part of story: Suburbs
… considering that no justice could result from a Pākehā inquiry. Hōri Kerei Taiaroa , MHR for Southern Māori, … returned, bitter, to Te Ao Mārama. Tension between local Pākehā runholders and Te Maihāroa's supporters increased, … was followed by an attempt to achieve justice within the Pākehā judicial and political framework. In 1879 and 1880 …
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… that the institution of whāngai was quite different to Pākehā adoption, and spoke about a concern of Māori relating … nga tamariki whangai: Kaua e whaimana te tamaiti whangai pakeha, ahakoa i rehitatia ki nga rawa a te matua whangai … whāngai children: Don’t give legal recognition to a Pākehā child who has been taken as a whāngai, even though …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… Māori land tenure and Pākehā law Māori land tenure includes complex overlapping …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… 1848, was important enough to make some impact even on Pākehā records. During his first 20 years the younger … measles and influenza epidemic known as Te Ariki; the first Pākehā he ever saw was probably three-year-old John Guard, … and the busy capital increased his knowledge of things Pākehā. He quickly learned to write in Māori. His first …
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… cross-cultural frontier into a settled region dominated by Pākehā. Colonists needed land, and Māori resistance to its … constitutes an extraordinary bicultural performance. Pākehā identity By the mid-1880s a majority of the … Zealand had a special value, and it seemed possible that Pākehā had become a distinct people too, with a scenery as …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… its members began to publish Māori history. These included Pākehā scholars such as Elsdon Best , Johannes Andersen and … rode bareback.’ 3 Local history The ageing of the founding Pākehā settlers and the commemoration of national, … For similar reasons, at the turn of the century a few Pākehā such as Thomas Morland Hocken in Dunedin and …
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Part of story: History and historians
… destination, but businesses were controlled by former Pākehā soldiers rather than the local iwi. In 1887 … Te Arawa and tourism During the mid-19th century Pākehā tourists began visiting the hot springs near Rotorua, …
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Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… were rigidly separated. Māori voted in Māori seats and Pākehā in European (general) seats; only so-called ‘half-castes’ (those with a Māori parent and a Pākehā parent) could choose between the two. That changed in …
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Part of story: Voting rights