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… royalty. Displaying a harmonious relationship between Pākehā and Māori was one reason to gather at Rotorua. … Many iwi were sceptical of Te Arawa’s focus on entertaining Pākehā. Waikato Māori refused to officially attend the … the King movement saw it as a form of co-existence with Pākehā: ‘The King on his piece; the Queen on her piece; God …
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Part of story: Royal family
… Māori’ for those who identified as Māori while retaining Pākehā notions of superiority. A related term, ‘plastic … Māori have always called European New Zealanders ‘Pākehā’ , but they are also sometimes colonialists, … infringe their rights under the Treaty of Waitangi. When Pākehā advocates of these strategies are patronising, Māori …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… Treaty of Waitangi was signed, relations between Māori and Pākehā were based on the Māori people’s complete authority … rewarding. In 1830 there were probably no more than 300 Pākehā living in New Zealand, among up to 100,000 Māori. A number of ‘Pākehā–Māori’ (Europeans living as part of a Māori …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… Changing causes of death In the 21st century Māori and Pākehā faced similar health issues. There had been a shift … from communicable to non-communicable diseases. For both Pākehā and Māori, acute infectious, respiratory and … Māori health expectancies in old age were close to those of Pākehā, but this was because their survival rates beyond …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… Problems in publication Early-20th-century Pākehā writers changed the order of creation from Te Pō (the … creation beliefs. Turning whakapapa into history Other Pākehā writers, such as Stephenson Percy Smith in Hawaiki … promoted it among their own people. False dates Pākehā scholars also averaged out long and short genealogies …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… From 1840 until the 1980s, government policies favoured Pākehā culture, although Māori culture and communities …
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… it up Some New Zealanders avoid an exclusive Māori or Pākehā identity and appreciate their heritage from both. … like we leak through any definition of race and culture.’ 1 Pākehā identity Other New Zealanders played with the idea of … of rugby games. The historian Michael King wrote Being Pakeha to explore this idea. When first published in 1985 …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… The loser's sister, Te Ani, admired the feat. 'Kapai te Pākehā' (The Pākehā is very good), she exclaimed, and a relationship … family the prestige and advantages that came from having a Pākehā resident among them. The couple settled with Ngāti …
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… – from the Bowentown Heads to Cape Runaway. For their Pākehā neighbours the line was first the sea and then the … whom Māori throughout the North Island are linked. Later, Pākehā knew it as the Bay of Plenty. The name was given by … 150 years after Cook’s voyage. Contact between Māori and Pākehā through missionaries and traders in the early 1800s …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… Māori life expectancy still lagged well behind that for Pākehā. There were several reasons. Most Māori continued to … pandemic of 1918 was more than eight times that for Pākehā. Serious epidemics occurred regularly in Māori … and economically, with poorer housing and nutrition than Pākehā. Diseases such as tuberculosis were closely …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… As a result of pressure from both Māori and concerned Pākehā, a commission of enquiry into Hawke’s Bay lands was … Donald McLean in 1873. The commission had two Māori and two Pākehā members and was chaired by Supreme Court Judge C. W. … report, rejecting Māori claims of fraudulent dealings by Pākehā settlers in Hawke’s Bay but strongly criticising the …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… purchased the trading post from Montefiore. Like many other Pākehā traders, Harris owed much of his success to his … buildings and considerably more livestock than his fellow Pākehā. His acquisition of land had been facilitated by his … beneficial. As a key person in the settlement, and a Pākehā who could move easily among Māori, Harris became a …
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… knowledge and their ability to mediate between Māori and Pākehā. The settlement's small policing unit had been … 1857. The Māori police were seldom appreciated by the Pākehā of the province, and not at all by 'insurrectionist' … fallen again to a two-man force; but with the expansion of Pākehā-settled territory the unit doubled in size. When the …
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… marriage and increasing family size. The fertility rate for Pākehā women rose and this continued until the early 1970s. … and became mothers soon after marriage. In the mid-1950s, Pākehā women had on average 3.8 live births while Māori … average almost seven. Māori fertility The baby boom was a Pākehā phenomenon. Māori fertility rates had been high …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… From the late 19th century, Pākehā included Māori traditions, customs and images in … the right to live as Māori within New Zealand society. The Pākehā anti-racist movement supported these calls. Engaged … commitment to biculturalism – the idea that the Māori and Pākehā cultures could exist on equal terms. Major policy …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… by 1986. As a result, many rural villages were depopulated. Pākehā attitudes For the first time, many Māori came into close contact with Pākehā. Initially there was a determination by many Pākehā to discourage the migration. It was thought that city …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… Ākenehi Hei, occasionally called Agnes by her Pākehā employers, was born probably in 1877 or 1878 into a … the influence of tohunga, rear their children in the Pākehā way and bring a 'life-giving stream of real sanitary … Māori nurses was not, however, to have them work in Pākehā hospitals. In November 1907 the government had agreed …
Type: Biography
… curiosity and speculation. The Polynesian Society In time, Pākehā ethnologists – many of them former missionaries, land … such a dependable forum. There was no equivalent study of Pākehā society. Early magazines New Zealand was also too … as a commentator on Māori issues – a market dominated by Pākehā. He sometimes signed his work ‘Professor of Maori’ (a …
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Part of story: Intellectuals
… (like measles, influenza and tuberculosis), introduced by Pākehā settlers. The musket wars of the 1820s and 1830s … of factors such as the introduction of venereal diseases by Pākehā, and exposure to other diseases and malnutrition, … level into the second half of the 20th century. Unlike the Pākehā fertility rate, which consistently declined from the …
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Part of story: Population change
… politicians The best-known broker between the Māori and Pākehā worlds in the late 19th century was James Carroll . … Ngata was the most prominent mediator between the Māori and Pākehā worlds in the early 20th century. As MP for Eastern … together as a Māori battalion. Using his knowledge of the Pākehā world and his professional skills, Ngata dedicated …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens