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… – an average of seven children in the 1870s. Also, many Pākehā were immigrants, and often lacked extended family …
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Part of story: Unpaid domestic work
… It was designed by Jasmax Architects with a bicultural (Pākehā and Māori) brief that was reflected in its floor …
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Part of story: Public, commercial and church architecture
… his troupe on a short tour: four concerts and visits to Pākehā schools. This was followed by other ‘commercial’ …
Type: Biography
… colonisation. All the Polynesian characters were played by Pākehā (perhaps providing a further allegory for …
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Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… pou (poles made from trees) and other Māori carvings. After Pākehā settlement these were followed by statues of …
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Part of story: Public and street art
… themselves, he turned to other subject matter with Being Pakeha (1985), biographies of Frank Sargeson (1995) and …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… His wife took in washing for ships' officers and local Pākehā. When his raupō hut burned down in 1829, Taiwhanga …
Type: Biography
… them off. The attack succeeded in demoralising the small Pākehā community. Te Mamaku's letters to other Whanganui …
Type: Biography
… wrote, ‘Kei te kino rawa atu inaianei te porangirangi o nga pakeha’ 1 (the English are in an absolute frenzy). Once …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… passed through, to go in peace and not to interfere with Pākehā. Kereopa, however, demanded that a European be given …
Type: Biography
… secure the northern boundary of the Taranaki tribes against Pākehā settlement, Te Rei Hanataua led 100 armed men to …
Type: Biography
… who coined this name. ‘Te Rohe Pōtae’ came to be used by Pākehā as well as Māori. The aukati (boundary) between …
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Part of story: King Country region
… Unlike Te Puea's, Piupiu's efforts were not covered by the Pākehā press, and all her life she struggled in relative …
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… Country’s limestone territory. Some were known prior to Pākehā settlement – the Ruakurī Cave was discovered by a …
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Part of story: King Country region
… possession, is a link between the two groups. The island’s Pākehā name commemorates French explorer Dumont d’Urville, …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… she was a doubly unique figure in an industry dominated by Pākehā men. Early life By her own account, Ramai … In portraying the obstacles facing Māori when they married Pākehā, she was dramatising her own struggle for acceptance …
Type: Biography
… BLitt in 1958. He studied one of the major consequences of Pākehā colonisation: how the shift from communal land … 1071). Hugh also edited and co-authored Waitangi: Māori and Pākehā perspectives of the Treaty of Waitangi (1989), a …
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… World War had not received enough decorations compared to Pākehā. He campaigned against T. W. Rātana in 1921–22, … impassioned. 'I have been anxious and trembling lest the Pākehā influence is so strong that it would deprive the …
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… of the New Zealand story was relations between Māori and Pākehā. He agreed to write a script on the condition he … The production deliberately combined both Māori and Pākehā values in its working methods, and Barclay was …
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… and outdated cultural assumptions of its original Pākehā colonists, and argued that modern New Zealanders … pre-contact Māori as more attuned to the landscape than the Pākehā who now farmed it for profit; ‘they knew it and … 7 The essays reflected cultural anxieties shared by other Pākehā literary and artistic figures of the time such as …
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