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… throes of urbanisation. These programmes were all made by Pākehā. In the next decade, this was to change. A new … These six documentaries from Pacific Films were fronted by Pākehā historian Michael King. The director was Barry …
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Part of story: Māori and television – whakaata
… about them. The increasing attention to Māori culture made Pākehā more interested in their own identity, with the Māori … of Genealogists The growing interest in genealogy among Pākehā New Zealanders was reflected in the founding of the …
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Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… 19th-century ‘expatriates’ In the 19th century many Pākehā who had been born in Britain thought of themselves as … widespread belief was that New Zealanders, particularly Pākehā, were ‘British’, and therefore heirs to British …
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Part of story: Creative and intellectual expatriates
… Huntly was a military post during the Waikato War and a Pākehā settlement afterwards. It was named after the home … of coal seams from the 1840s. It has been suggested that Pākehā desire to control this resource was one reason for …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… Myth of racial harmony Until the 1960s many Pākehā New Zealanders, including those opposed to racially … reproach. They assumed full equality between Māori and Pākehā was an established part of the New Zealand way of …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… an unarmed force. The NZPF was almost entirely staffed by Pākehā, increasingly focused on crime control, and developed … recruited until considerably later. Māori police? Pākehā social attitudes and government policy meant that …
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Part of story: Police
… Te Rarawa) led a petition for equality between Māori and Pākehā over not just the tour but in New Zealand society. … and push for mana motuhake – did not always sit well with Pākehā protesters. Many demonstraters were arrested and …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū tautohetohe – Māori protest movements
… and Economic Advancement Act 1945. In this period Māori and Pākehā were coming into greater daily contact with each … to be held by the Crown. More than 30,000 Māori and their Pākehā supporters marched on Parliament to challenge the …
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Part of story: Kāwanatanga – Māori engagement with the state
… in rugby, as in warfare, enhanced his people’s esteem among Pākehā. Māori and apartheid rugby Nēpia missed the 1928 tour … how highly the Maori race is regarded by his fellow Pakeha citizens’. 3 Despite this high regard, the New …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… by the local tribe, Ngāti Whātua, who expected that Pākehā settlement would bring trade, and protection from … share of trade decline. Waikato War In the early 1860s, Pākehā feared that Auckland was vulnerable to attack by …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… its natural scenery had romantic features, for a long time Pākehā saw the bush as monotonous and frightening. However, … often emotional connection that New Zealanders, Māori and Pākehā, had with the land, beaches and the ocean. …
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Part of story: New Zealand identity
… Zealand Company naturalist Ernst Dieffenbach was the first Pākehā to climb Taranaki Maunga. He made two unsuccessful … reached the summit. Jane Maria Atkinson was the first Pākehā woman to climb the mountain, with her husband Arthur …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… dropping to about two children per woman for both Māori and Pākehā in the 1980s and beyond. Women adopt the pill New … to get the pill until the 1970s, and the pregnancy rate for Pākehā teenagers reached an all-time high around 1970. The …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… to the assistance of Waikato in their fight against the Pākehā. He had also failed to condemn the killing of Te … words remains. 'E mate hara kore ana ahau. Tēnā koutou Pākehā. Hei aha.' (I die an innocent man. Farewell Pākehā. So be it.) His words at the scaffold, and his song, …
Type: Biography
… Te Kāhui Kararehe lived at a time when Māori–Pākehā relations in Taranaki were at their most critical. … in November 1881, Te Kāhui worked within the framework of Pākehā law to help the Māori people in the Taranaki … for the right of Māori landowners to lease direct to Pākehā, instead of through the public trustee. In September …
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… than 3 million acres of Māori land and made it available to Pākehā settlers. The 1894 Advances to Settlers Act offered …
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Part of story: Government and agriculture
… social pattern’ charted the ways recent novels had revealed Pākehā social mores – a subject at some remove from …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… and the movements that followed were dominated by Pākehā men. From the 1970s other groups demanded a larger … their culture in creative ways. They critiqued the heavily Pākehā focus of much cultural nationalism and noted the …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… celebrated on the date that the first organised group of Pākehā settlers arrived in each place. Auckland was an … were very meaningful in the first few decades of Pākehā settlement, when the original settlers were still …
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Part of story: Public holidays
… diseases, Māori women had lower levels of fertility than Pākehā women in the late 19th century. Until the 1960s Māori … Act 1877 which introduced compulsory schooling. Non-farming Pākehā households depended on access to money, and usually …
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Part of story: Families: a history