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… games. In contrast, during the early years of settlement Pākehā children had few opportunities to play traditional … being played in 21st-century playgrounds. Māori and Pākehā games At Ōhau, near Levin, in the 1910s, ‘[a]bout …
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Part of story: Children’s play
… thermal springs, long known to Māori, were discovered by Pākehā. A hotel and bathing pools were constructed and the … station’s chimney. Aotea Harbour was not heavily settled by Pākehā because of its dangerous bar. The Aotea Scientific …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… the protection and guidance of Ngati Tama as 'Katene's Pakeha'. A number of Maori and Moriori worked as stockmen on … that the followers of Te Whiti planned to massacre all Pakeha on the island the frightened citizens barricaded …
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… Taiamai, a woman held in high respect by both Māori and Pākehā. She was known for her kindness and hospitality to … school was opened at Ōhinemutu for all children, Māori and Pākehā. At first Māori attendance was poor; little progress …
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… edge of the King Country because of a Kingite embargo on Pākehā travelling into that region. They were transferred to … relations with Māori; it is said that theirs was the first Pākehā house that King Tāwhiao visited once fighting had …
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… in Palmerston North (1954–64) again blended Māori and Pākehā traditions, with considerable use made of carved … with the social and political issues separating Māori and Pākehā. He, however, envisaged fusion rather than division …
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… houses were built, carvers became more dependent on wealthy Pākehā who saw carving as a craft with the potential to draw … school was following a pattern that had been established by Pākehā such as Hamilton and Nelson in the 1880s. The carving …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… his relative, Matetakahia, had been accused of killing a Pākehā. Nene accused Matetakahia of the crime and shot him … and cultivating the land. The chief then sold the land to a Pākehā without consulting the girl or her parents. They left …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… law, government offices and other settings where Māori and Pākehā came into official contact with each other. In this … and interpreters were often people of mixed ethnicity, or Pākehā who had grown up in Māori-speaking communities and …
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… (John Beecham), a local chief who provided protection for Pākehā surveyors in the 1880s. The gateway and ‘provision … central crossroads, an 1890 marble obelisk commemorates the Pākehā casualties of the 1868–69 Taranaki wars; a second …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… countries in the late 19th century. In New Zealand, the Pākehā birth rate dropped by about 50% from 1878 to 1900, …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… beaches. Māori also often took part in events organised by Pākehā. In 1842, a horse race for Māori was included at a …
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Part of story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
… of New Zealand society, not least race relations. Māori and Pākehā had been brought together in unprecedented fashion. …
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Part of story: Second World War
… with Māori families sprinkled around predominantly Pākehā communities. The number of Māori moving to cities …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… naturally resented the confiscations, and some prominent Pākehā criticised the process from the start. Sir William …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… Football in various forms was played from early days of Pākehā settlement – the first football club was set up in …
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Part of story: Culture and recreation in the city
… grew in size and received many visitors, both Māori and Pākehā, including trade unionists, artists, writers and …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… and enrolled, and an assembly of the public, Maori and Pakeha. After the conclusion of the formalities the first … of a grand-daughter of Nga Puhi chief Rewa; and among Pakeha because of the horrible features of the crime. It was … by a special jury consisting of equal numbers of Maori and Pakeha was also dismissed, because as a Maori he was not an …
Type: Biography
… school was to close, and a few did. Pope well knew that Pākeha and Māori interests could conflict when the future of native schools was at issue. He knew, too, that Pākeha views were more likely than Māori to be heard where … became a fluent Māori speaker and one of the best-informed Pākeha of his time on Māori lore and traditions. He won the …
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… cross the cultural and political divide between Māori and Pākehā, especially through books such as Ka whawhai tonu … as a sword.’ 1 His critiques were not simply reserved for Pākehā or the state; he was just as likely to criticise … and alcohol. In Auckland, Walker began courting a young Pākehā woman, Deirdre Patricia Dodson, who was also training …
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