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… occupation and housing became more obvious once Māori and Pākehā were in the same location. Moving to the city also … from the Pacific, closer to home but less familiar to Pākehā, were also encouraged to enter the country. Workers, …
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Part of story: Ethnic inequalities
… Traders By necessity, whalers were also traders. Other Pākehā came to the region specifically to trade with Māori. … such as farming for financial gain. However, because Pākehā were present in small numbers, Māori society was not …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… were very well educated. But in the 1850s about 25% of Pākehā could not read or write, and another 14% could only … primary education to standard six (year eight) for all Pākehā New Zealand children, and public schools were set up …
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Part of story: Country schooling
… until the century was nearly over ‘A dying race’ Many Pākehā spoke of Māori as a ‘dying race’. They regarded the … non-Māori population grew, hospitals became increasingly Pākehā-dominated institutions, built and administered by the …
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Part of story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health
… 1910 Manawatū, the district that came late in the story of Pākehā settlement, had equal standing with regions such as … and Southland. The economy was buoyant and in 1911 the Pākehā population had grown 40-fold since 1871 – from 1,000 …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… scattering and integrating individual Māori families among Pākehā neighbours. This was preferred to placing Māori … the demands of city life and the pressures of conforming to Pākehā ways made it difficult for many to maintain that …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… near the Waitara River bridge. The district was opened to Pākehā settlement in the mid-1880s and the township was … major Māori settlement on the Waitara River. The first Pākehā settlers took up land in 1891. St Peter’s Anglican …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… the symbolic power of the Union Jack and the importance Pākehā attached to the raising and lowering of flags. They … white hand clasped, suggesting friendship between Māori and Pākehā. Tino rangatiratanga flag The flag commonly known as …
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Part of story: Flags
… story of Hinemoa and Tūtānekai attracted the attention of Pākehā settlers and has been the inspiration for popular songs and several movies. Its prominence reflects Pākehā conceptions of the ideal love story. The first …
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Part of story: Love and romance
… Māori were paid less and suffered worse conditions than Pākehā labourers on equivalent relief schemes, and they … workers and to increase Māori relief scheme rates to equal Pākehā rates – but it was the New Zealand Workers’ Union …
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Part of story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement
… women died for every 1,000 live births. (The rate amongst Pākehā women was 6.5 per 1,000 live births.) This figure, … to be examined by male doctors (almost invariably Pākehā). …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… When they refused to take on contracts below this rate, Pākehā shearers came into the area and did the work instead; … responded by saying that Māori would be treated the same as Pākehā: ‘the Māoris are the first citizens of New Zealand … …
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… were usually better educated or more highly trained than Pākehā–Māori and, unlike them, almost never married Māori women. However, like Pākehā–Māori, missionaries needed a good knowledge of Māori …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… battle of Rangiriri in November 1863, and was settled by Pākehā in 1864. Renamed Queenstown and then, in 1870, … which operated from 1842 to 1863. Taupiri was settled by Pākehā in the 1870s, and became a farming centre with flax …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… rights and to promoting understanding between Māori and Pākehā. He developed a marae at Whareroa, a well-used … and unveiled in August 1920. A large gathering of Māori and Pākehā expressed their respect for Ngātai. A life-size …
Type: Biography
… sabbath from Protestant missionaries and other Christian Pākehā. Some Māori adopted Sunday as a day of rest before … Christianity. This was probably a mark of respect for Pākehā customs, although a day of rest may have been seen as …
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Part of story: Weekends
… still live. European settlement and conflict Systematic Pākehā settlement by the Plymouth Company began in 1841. … there was more than a decade of conflict between Māori and Pākehā over land and sovereignty. From the 1870s new waves …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… who ran completely away from them in every race.’ 1 The Pākehā men, on observing their hosts’ fine physical … laid on. Hāngī might be set up by Māori, giving their Pākehā neighbours a chance to experience Māori cuisine. Big …
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Part of story: Picnics and barbecues
… confiscations that had followed the wars between Māori and Pākehā in Waikato. She was known personally to all the King … Te Akarana Māori Association, an organisation of Māori and Pākehā with interests in Māori ethnology, decided to set up …
Type: Biography