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Studying New Zealand English

… Māori In 1943 New Zealander Jack Bennett criticised the way Pākehā pronounced and wrote Māori words. He mentioned …

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Part of story: English language in New Zealand

The emergence of the party system

… of native minister from 1928 to 1934. His knowledge of the Pākehā world and his professional skills assisted his …

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Part of story: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties

The Māori economy: a history

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Part of story: Economy

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Being Pākehā

Pākehā–Māori

Early Pākehā settlement

Māori and Pākehā whānau

The need for bridges and tunnels

… 19th century. Changing types of transport Māori and early Pākehā settlers largely travelled on foot, or by canoe up …

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Part of story: Bridges and tunnels

… intense, from the 1970s she attracted criticism for being a Pākehā academic working on Māori subject matter. Early life … in te ao Māori, something that was relatively unusual for Pākehā in that period. At her marriage she became Margaret … taking her away from her writing. Pushback from Māori about Pākehā scholars working in Māori spaces began in the 1970s …

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Ward, Alan Dudley

… his perception of the relationships between Māori and Pākehā. He observed a ‘strange contradiction’ in the attitudes of Pākehā towards Māori: respectful and friendly relationships … towards Māori as a group. The marginal rural Pākehā who Ward grew up among were a ‘contradictory and …

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Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki

… with a group of young men living at Mākaraka, who took Pākehā possessions as utu for grievances. His lawlessness … . He thereby acquired influential enemies, both Māori and Pākehā. The oral traditions interpret his wildness as the … 1868. The prisoners unloaded the ship, and paid off its Pākehā crew. Te Kooti then ordered the sacrifice of a pig …

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20th- and 21st-century travellers

… By 1951 American novelist James Michener decided that the (Pākehā) New Zealander was the most conservative white man in … on horseback through New Zealand, was also critical of Pākehā attitudes towards Māori. Not all negative Not all …

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Part of story: Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand

Mānuera, Eruera Riini

… This work, and the strong links he established with Pākehā, were his major achievements. He was born on 6 … University of Wellington. He claimed that these awards from Pākehā honoured him while he was still alive, and remarked …

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Marriage in the 19th century

… who was available. In the early and mid-19th century, Māori–Pākehā intermarriage was common. Until the early 20th … usually married within a few years. No more than 6% of Pākehā women over the age of 45 were single. Couples tended …

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Part of story: Marriage and partnering