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Wyllie, Kate

… Court hearings in Gisborne. She moved in both Māori and Pākehā worlds, protecting her mana and interests through …

Type: Biography

… River. While at Jerusalem she began caring for unwanted Pākehā children, an activity which led her into a third … a shortage of personnel. The ever-increasing demands of the Pākehā population for priests and competition from other … probably for these remedies that she was best known among Pākehā New Zealanders at the time. However, dissatisfaction …

Type: Biography

Buck, Peter Henry

… Throughout his life Peter Henry Buck regarded his Māori and Pākehā ancestry as equally important. His Māori descent was … he used it as a pen-name. Buck sometimes described his Pākehā ancestors as Irish; his family was descended from … Kapuakore. Nevertheless, his early upbringing was more Pākehā than Māori. His father was an educated man who gave …

Type: Biography

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Early Pākehā settlement

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Browne, Thomas Robert Gore

… government, ministers would answer to an exclusively Pākehā assembly. However, the governor personally controlled … that moderate counsels might yet prevail. However, among Pākehā observers there was no division. Even clergy who had … including local self-government, a training school for Pākehā and Māori entering the native service, and a Māori …

Type: Biography

McKenzie, Mina Louise

… wider Manawatū–Rangitikei area through her Māori and her Pākehā lineages, and because of the role she played in … via unpaid and then part-time work. As the centennial of Pākehā settlement in Palmerston North approached in 1967, … in were emphasised. Her roles as a bridge between Māori and Pākehā, between Jew and Gentile, between iwi and museum …

Type: Biography

Beattie, James Herries

… writing had produced 27 books, of which 12 were on the Pākehā pioneers and 10 on Māori. These included Tīkao talks … approach. He systematically interviewed Māori elders and Pākehā pioneers, and constructed from their recollections …

Type: Biography

Haddon, Robert Tahupōtiki

… with the name Robert; he was known to both Māori and Pākehā as Tahupōtiki. As a girl, Haddon's mother was trained … in an unsuccessful attempt to amalgamate its Māori and Pākehā circuits. When the Presbyterian church opened its …

Type: Biography

Mitchell, Henry Taipōrutu Te Mapu-o-te-rangi

… where his services were in great demand by Māori and Pākehā. He was called on by the government to undertake … Mitchell accepted leadership roles in both the Māori and Pākehā communities. He served on the Rotorua County Council …

Type: Biography

Nahe, Hoani

… and published Nahe's papers on the etymology of 'Māori', 'Pākehā' and 'kaipuke'. Nahe argued that all were ancient in … a prolific letter writer, corresponding with many Māori and Pākehā leaders. He was able to discourse on many subjects of …

Type: Biography

Stirling, Mihi Kōtukutuku

… in the Raukōkore Anglican Church in 1896. Duncan was of Pākehā, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe descent. A qualified … for her. He spoke little Māori and was regarded as a Pākehā by some in the Raukōkore community. Mihi's people had …

Type: Biography

Taranui, Te Pōkiha

… dash across 200 yards of ground under enemy fire, to assist Pākehā troops in an exposed position. On his advice they … a major, was among the defenders. In March 1870, however, Pākehā officers replaced Te Arawa leaders, who had …

Type: Biography

Te Whiwhi, Hēnare Mātene

… defensive. In the 1850s the central North Island had little Pakeha settlement, and Te Whiwhi wished to preserve the … not to join. Ōtaki people, he said, had no wish to kill Pākehā. But he added: 'any young man who wishes to join the …

Type: Biography