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… skills and confidence to move with aplomb between the Pākehā and Māori worlds. On leaving school, Mākereti went to … P. Parkerson and George Isles. Postcards of her clothed in Pākehā or Māori costume, with the headscarf she usually wore … Mākereti was scornful of the ignorant assumptions of many Pākehā ethnologists and corrected them in her text. The book …
Type: Biography
… the wrong time: it was not the moment to have a compromised Pākehā-Māori character speak out against orthodox … of The greenstone door : Big Man, Old Settler and idealised Pākehā-Māori. Although Māori diggers were in the majority on … he in the end succeeds as a farmer, indeed 'lives like a Pakeha'. The most popular of Satchell's books, The …
Type: Biography
… was known for his kindness and generosity to Māori and Pākehā alike. When Donald McLean , then a government land … Bay settlers in 1863, Whaanga was among those who reassured Pākehā by speaking strongly in support of peace. In 1864 the … occupied Ōmarunui pā, near Napier, in September 1866. Both Pākehā and Māori regarded this move as a sign of Hauhau …
Type: Biography
… sources, was published in 1907, and established him as a Pākehā authority on the Māori. In newspapers and in lectures, Andersen advised Pākehā artists and poets to 'leave the Greek and turn to the … historical and personal colour by collecting Māori and Pākehā placenames, divining their meanings and establishing …
Type: Biography
… His mother, Teu Bosini, was a Rarotongan woman married to a Pākehā New Zealander, John Archibald (Jock) Campbell, who, … and underlined his outsider status as a Polynesian in Pākehā New Zealand. Wellington After a brief, troubled … and contradictions of Te Rauparaha’s legacy, outside the Pākehā frame of fascinated abhorrence of his violence. Peter …
Type: Biography
… Tiakitai . He acquired the skills and the understanding of Pākehā affairs which made him a capable man of business, … Tautāne and Ākitio. Hēnare Matua lived at Ākitio. Pākehā settlers were then taking an increasing interest in … with his neighbour Ormond to calm both Māori and Pākehā. When, in 1864, Ngairo Takatakapūtea, the Wairarapa …
Type: Biography
… Te Kooti at Taupō. Only 100 of McDonnell's 700 troops were Pākehā, and he again found that his command of kūpapa was … that I could not touch'. He was immensely popular with his Pākehā troops and was capable of winning deep loyalty. His … metaphor, was as confusing to Māori listeners as to Pākehā. From 1866 to 1868 'Fighting Mac' was the colony's …
Type: Biography
… to prove she could do as well as, if not better than, the Pākehā students. She attended Queen Victoria Māori Girls’ … By the early 1950s she moved easily between the Māori and Pākehā worlds and was honing her communication and … delegates resented having to present themselves alongside Pākehā women as ‘New Zealand delegates’. This meant they …
Type: Biography
… by the settlers in a passive role of suppliers of land for Pākehā entrepreneurs convinced him that they must aim to do … modern economic life and securing their equality with Pākehā. He accepted that the burgeoning flow of settlement … to be settled by a special commission of five Tūhoe and two Pākehā, with the land managed by committees. In return the …
Type: Biography
… wars (1922–23) drew sympathetically on Māori as well as Pākehā accounts. Another prolific writer in both English and … Times in the late 1960s sparked his interest in Māori–Pākehā relations and led to some ground-breaking histories. …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… foundation stone for a new Māori meeting house. Until then, Pākehā New Zealanders had taken little interest in the site … the beginning of a process of rediscovery on the part of Pākehā and a broadening awareness among Māori. The couple …
Type: Biography
… the coast, and in tiny areas further inland. The arrival of Pākehā settlers in the 1840s began the near-complete … wonders Taranaki’s fertile soil was a boon to early Pākehā settlers, as this letter suggests: ‘[W]e have had …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… – left their ships and set up on shore to trade. Women and Pākehā–Māori The first women settlers, who landed in 1806, … and go-betweens for traders. These men were known as Pākehā–Māori . The first settler? Who was the first European …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… of food 150 feet long, 10 feet wide and 4 feet high. Many Pākehā visitors attended the gathering, some out of … themselves. Three months later Pāora Te Pōtangaroa died. Pākehā authorities greeted his death with relief; they had …
Type: Biography
… 1915. On 6 August they were sent into battle beside their Pākehā comrades at Sari Bair. On the eve of the battle Te … had been split up into platoons and forced to fight with Pākehā battalions. He and Buck had attempted to persuade …
Type: Biography
… farming activities. He entered into a partnership with a Pākehā farmer, John Sinclair , and bought the huge … combined. He experimented with farming methods and employed Pākehā as well as Māori workers. Te Whāiti's expertise in …
Type: Biography
… of the New Zealand identity . Māori differences from Pākehā are evident in social customs such as tangi … larger towns as the rest of the population. When Māori and Pākehā began living in closer proximity, the belief that the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Society
… are still the most significant of all Māori gatherings. Pākeha practices In the 19th century most undertakers were …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Death and dying
… in the Pacific was marked by its mix of Māori and Pākehā customs. Māori protocol was used in negotiations, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Peacekeeping
… for cultural performances and religious expression. Some Pākehā Catholics criticised these hui for going against a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations