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… century and became an important link between Māori and Pākehā in the Tauranga district. About 1834 she met John … trading ventures to prosper. He became Ngāi Tūkairangi's Pākehā, accepted as a member of the tribe and valued for his …
Type: Biography
… word for horse was ‘kāmia’, which came from Māori hearing Pākehā saying ‘Come here’ to horses. Ngāti Porou people … from horses which were released by or escaped from their Pākehā or Māori owners. Kaimanawa horses are associated with …
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Part of story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
… and Maori Intelligencer invited Māori to surrender to Pākehā ‘the regulating of all things, for with him is wisdom … … cast aside the Maori life, and adopt the usages of the Pakeha’. 1 Many Māori followed this advice, but the majority …
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Part of story: Kāwanatanga – Māori engagement with the state
… were 82,271 registered voters, about 71% of the adult male Pākehā population. When the next election was held in 1881, there were 120,972 registered voters, 91% of adult Pākehā men. The character of Parliament also began to …
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Part of story: Voting rights
… Roimata o Hine Hukatere – the tears of the avalanche girl. Pākehā exploration In the 19th century few Pākehā New Zealanders climbed mountains for the sake of it. …
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Part of story: Mountains
… Action Committee, a coalition of Māori activists, and Pākehā organisations against racism, sexism, capitalism and … Waitangi. The consequences of their action affected Māori, Pākehā and the nation’s conscience. The hīkoi, like the land …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… from tuberculosis was around 10 times the rate for Pākehā. The disparity was about the same in 1947. In this … was falling, but in 1937 it was still nearly 40 times the Pākehā rate. Infant mortality was much higher among Māori …
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Part of story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health
… 1840 they also had to deal with the disruption caused by Pākehā settlement. In the 1840s the leadership of Te Āti Awa … the region, generally took a benign and hopeful attitude to Pākehā settlement. When the agents of the New Zealand … is reported to have said, in reply to Wakefield, 'I ask you Pakeha what did the Queen tell you? Did she say to you "go …
Type: Biography
… did not last, and within a few years flax trading was dead. Pākehā–Māori Some Europeans, nearly always male, lived … Largely adopting Māori ways of life, they became known as Pākehā–Māori . Most were escaped convicts or seamen. Some, … had arrived as escaped convicts or deserting seamen), and Pākehā–Māori (Europeans living with and as Māori) who …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… farms: some freehold, some leasehold, the majority owned by Pākehā. Airini and George Donnelly owned residences at … entertained her relatives and Māori friends as well as many Pākehā. The couple had two children: a daughter, Maud Airini … the one hand she strenuously opposed lease or sale to the Pākehā; on the other hand she worked relentlessly to obtain …
Type: Biography
… relations with their landlords were cordial. Māori sought Pākehā neighbours because it gave them mana (status), … trading opportunities and protection from enemies. Pākehā depended on Māori for food, labour and transport. As … Wars. This was largely due to the strong ties between Pākehā and Māori communities. Even so, some Wairarapa Māori …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… Zealand about 1350, promulgated by S. Percy Smith and other Pākehā scholars: 'All of that stuff is spurious'. He did not … an interpreter, and offered lessons in Māori to interested Pākehā. He recommended his own work, the Māori–English tutor … and who moved easily between and within Māori and Pākehā communities. On one occasion at Ōrākei, Auckland, …
Type: Biography
… Two further stories feature marriages between Māori men and Pākehā women, doomed to failure because they were socially unacceptable. Māori–Pākehā relationships also underpinned her first children's … of Doubtful Sound, and then to wars between Māori and Pākehā in the North Island. Her last novel, Martin Thorn – …
Type: Biography
… of Māori had internet access at home, compared to 45.5% of Pākehā. By 2006 Māori internet access at home had leaped to … in 2007, 62% of Māori, 72% of Pasifika peoples, 77% of Pākehā and 94% of Asians in New Zealand could use the …
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Part of story: Mātauranga hangarau – information technology
… rare occasions. Low life expectancy (in 1874 it was 48 for Pākehā men and 50 for Pākehā women, and even lower for Māori) meant that it was …
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Part of story: Birthdays and wedding anniversaries
… acknowledged past cultural ‘borrowings’ by both Māori and Pākehā, but asserted ‘In the cultural sphere – the arts – it … in art criticism. Rangihiroa Panoho’s critique of Pākehā artists’ use and misuse of Māori motifs, ‘Maori: at …
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Part of story: Criticism and the arts
… and some men chose to desert the ship for their partner. Pākehā–Māori From the 1790s a small number of men jumped … in New Zealand and lived with Māori. They were known as Pākehā–Māori, and were welcomed into Māori communities …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… infections as the main cause of death) much later than Pākehā, because of the effects of colonisation on their … before they turned seven. In comparison, fewer than 10% of Pākehā girls died before nine months, and only about 15% …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… ‘Waingaromia’ meant ‘out of sight’. 1 Mock Māori Māori and Pākehā had little contact with each other in the early 20th … a mythical, clownish Māori comments in broken English on Pākehā customs. In many cartoons produced for publications …
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Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata
… Figures indicated that the majority of viewers were Pākehā. Questions remained as to whether the channels were … Māori and general audiences. Some of these shows reflected Pākehā views of Māori as people who are often in trouble …
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Part of story: Māori and television – whakaata