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… In the 2000s, it became more common for both Māori and Pākehā to celebrate Matariki. Since 2022, a public holiday …
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… no selling land). Having seen the disastrous effects of Pākehā settlement on other tribes, their lands and … at tracks entering Te Urewera warning strangers, especially Pākehā, not to enter. Eru Tamaikōhā, fighting chief of Te … Who would deny them that?’ 1 Rua’s community was seen by Pākehā as subversive, and he was accused of discouraging his …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… comfortable if one of his seven children came home with a Pākehā partner. Ngāi Tahu leader Tahu Potiki commented that while his Pākehā mother’s parents had been very accepting of her … his father’s sister had not been allowed to marry a Pākehā – or even a Māori of another tribe. Potiki said he …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… of living, in comparison with the small-town and urban Pākehā community which was fully part of the capitalist … in health status and life expectancy for Māori and Pākehā. This reflected both differences in material … for Māori were inferior to conditions experienced by most Pākehā. Surveys of Māori housing in the late 1930s noted …
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Part of story: Ethnic inequalities
… seafood, which was a major part of their traditional diet. Pākehā have only come around to celebrating it relatively … in status. Until the late 1940s they were ignored by most Pākehā. Since they were sold ready-boiled, rock lobsters … food. Oysters have always had general appeal to Māori and Pākehā alike, but mussels only gained in status when they …
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Part of story: Food
… leaders who operated effectively in both Māori and Pākehā societies. Hating school The ‘strong antipathy to … for most students, exam pass rates matched those of Pākehā students. These results were being achieved with a … and Wesley College had a mix of Māori, Pacific Island, and Pākehā students. Both schools were accepted and valued by …
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Part of story: Private education
… Newton families and four other families of Māori wives and Pākehā husbands founded a settlement at Otaku (Murray's … the Newton lineage with most of the other early Māori–Pākehā families in Murihiku. For example, Susan Ballantyne, … earliest founding mothers of an extensive network of Māori–Pākehā families in southern New Zealand. She was one of the …
Type: Biography
… public could buy produce directly from growers appeared in Pākehā settlements in the 19th century. Markets were based … food from these shops. Māori marketing In the early days of Pākehā settlement food was mainly imported, or purchased …
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Part of story: Markets
… finding accommodation. The reputation Māori had among Pākehā for overcrowding and taking poor care of their homes … open to the Maori are the ramshackle discards of the pakeha’. 1 After the Second World War the migration of Māori … Corporation (SAC). To encourage their integration into Pākehā society, Māori families would be pepper-potted or …
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Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare
… acceptance of intermarriage. It was commonly thought by Pākehā that Māori were genetically superior to other native … only’, and in some places Māori were kept separate from Pākehā in cinemas and swimming pools. Māori migration and … of Māori moved to the city. This meant that Māori and Pākehā had greater contact as they intermingled in urban …
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Part of story: Ethnic and religious intolerance
… wash-house copper or on the coal range. Nineteenth-century Pākehā In 19th-century New Zealand the rhythm of life was … of the moon, and the days of the week. More than half the Pākehā population was rural, and sowing, harvesting, burning … rhythms among Māori differed significantly from those among Pākehā. Being alone was far less common. People slept in a …
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Part of story: Rhythms of daily life
… (blood relationships). Clashes occurred when a Pākehā parent saw family independence as important while the … side, or they may live a more European lifestyle if the Pākehā parent is not comfortable with Māori culture and … up as part of whānau while also being mindful of their Pākehā heritage. They were taken to their home marae as much …
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Part of story: Whānau – Māori and family
… growth. Fertility rates remained high, well above those of Pākehā, despite the Pākehā ‘baby boom’. At the same time, levels of Māori … an urban-based people, Māori were still less likely than Pākehā to live in densely populated metropolitan areas. The …
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Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… from predominantly Māori until 1860 to predominantly Pākehā. Today's multi-ethnic composition is a relatively … to low or natural increase or even natural decrease. Pākehā followed this model from the 19th century. For Māori … of the 20th century, but accelerated faster than the Pākehā model once it started. Population growth Migration, …
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Part of story: Population change
… or in their hapū directed by rangatira. Trading with Pākehā As Māori sought European technology, including … adapted their economy to supply and trade goods required by Pākehā. Kauri spars were required by visiting ships for … purchase a single musket. Potatoes were also traded with Pākehā – around 1814 one musket cost 150 baskets of …
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Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… the Cook Strait region. He also instigated trade with Pākehā by welcoming visiting ships to Kāpiti and encouraging … the surveying of land on the Wairau (Blenheim) plains for Pākehā settlement in 1843. But by 1846 their leading chiefs …
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Part of story: Ngāti Toarangatira
… Kīngitanga flags Tension rose between Māori and Pākehā despite the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, as the number and ambitions of Pākehā settlers grew, and war erupted during the 1860s. …
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Part of story: Ngā haki – Māori and flags
… told of a long and adventurous past for both Māori and Pākehā migrants, linked to a distant but common ancestry. … The idea of the Great Fleet was accepted by both Māori and Pākehā. The Māori scholar Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa), who … a legend. Until the 1970s, it was a feature of Māori and Pākehā learning and enshrined in New Zealand’s wider culture. …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… more people to the region. Relations between Māori and Pākehā were friendly – Wairarapa stayed out of the New Zealand wars – but as Pākehā prospered, Māori lost most of their land and wealth. … 1945 many Māori moved to towns and found jobs alongside Pākehā in rural processing and other industries. Social …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… of Waitangi in 1840 established an ideal that Māori and Pākehā were ‘one people’, and there was an official policy … population dropping to under 50,000 in the 1890s, some Pākehā began to romanticise Māori. They turned to Māori … the women’s suffrage leader, wrote in 1901, ‘Maori and Pakeha have become one people, under one Sovereign and one …
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Part of story: New Zealand identity