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… West a Māori Working Women’s Committee was set up by two Pākehā women. The committees held conferences in 1934 and … set up were mixed, including women and men, Māori and Pākehā. Exceptions were the Canterbury Women’s Employment …
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Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… pass, Noti Raureka, known as Browning Pass after one of its Pākehā discoverers in 1865, was used for a while. A track …
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Part of story: European exploration
… KG Club was started by a collective of four Māori and four Pākehā lesbians. It shifted to various locations before …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives
… Wairarapa and Manawatu his movement was popularly known as Pākehā Hauhauism. Later congregations built on different …
Type: Biography
… the region’s population increased, in part because so many Pākehā were leaving. Whanganui economy and population …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… finally at Te Uruhi (Paraparaumu Beach). In 1841, as the Pākehā-Māori of the Puketapu hapū of Te Āti Awa, he began …
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… War During the Second World War, Māori women, like their Pākehā counterparts, took a role in running farms and …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… that drew hundreds and occasionally thousands of people. Pākehā expected to be involved and the occasions were …
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Part of story: Northland region
… with the local Maori, who in 1842 had had little to do with Pakeha. She was a small woman, but never one to allow her …
Type: Biography
… found that ‘Maori humour is fundamentally different from Pakeha, both in content (what the different groups find …
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Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata
… Jock Phillips’s ground-breaking history of the image of the Pākehā male, A man’s country (1987), and Michael King’s One …
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Part of story: Women and men
… and high fertility, and was particularly noticeable in Pākehā settler society in the 1870s and Māori society in the …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… in 1903, facilitated the opening of the King Country to Pākehā. The first European settlers took up farms in the …
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Part of story: King Country region
… Attitudes to pregnancy Among 19th-century Pākehā settlers pregnancy was often described as an illness. …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… him to lead his people in casting off the yoke of the Pākehā. The angel promised him that the birthright of …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… had widespread acceptance and many scholars, both Māori and Pākehā, were excited by his conclusions. Other theories …
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Part of story: Hawaiki
… who missed sweet potatoes from home took to kūmara. Many Pākehā followed suit. Pits The remains of kūmara storage …
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Part of story: Kūmara
… the chief and prophet Tītokowaru . Bent heard about another Pākehā, William Moffatt, who manufactured low-grade … was reviled as a traitor. He probably avoided contact with Pākehā authorities even after public hostility had given way … a confectioner. As time went on, he had more contact with Pākehā, often journalists seeking a tale of the old times. …
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… criminals and assisting people in need, both Māori and Pākehā. He advocated programmes that would encourage Māori … own cultural heritage and to become self-sufficient in a Pākehā-dominated society. Throughout his life Couch loved … issues, though criticised by many New Zealanders, Māori and Pākehā, was respected and supported by others, especially in …
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… Anglicans was not sympathetically regarded by some of the Pākehā bishops. His task during a transitional period was … life and administration, and the tension between Māori and Pākehā over pastoral responsibilities was never fully … of Waitangi, of a policy of absolute equality between Pākehā and Māori. Pānapa met Queen Elizabeth II at her …
Type: Biography