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… papers utilised his medical training to analyse Māori and Pākehā demography. In 1882 he published 'A study of the … these lines as typifying the scientific racism of Victorian Pākehā; yet in 1884, for example, he called on the House of … in the myth of the Aryan origins of the Māori, popular in Pākehā anthropological circles. He joined the Polynesian …
Type: Biography
… enforced the aukati line, which delineated Māori- from Pākehā-controlled land. Pākehā who crossed the line risked imminent death if … had his heart cut out, in a gruesome killing that alarmed Pākehā settlers. The removal of survey pegs and the …
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Part of story: Public protest
… contacts among Waikato and Ngāti Maniapoto at a time when Pākehā were increasingly fearful of the King movement and … on 4 September; they were to have four daughters. With his Pākehā family Searancke returned to Waikato in 1865, after … at various times. From 1867 his district covered all of Pākehā-occupied Waikato, and he took over the Raglan court …
Type: Biography
… cause) she treated herself. Others she sent to the Pākehā doctor. Puna often nursed her patients in her own … a committee to defray the costs of patients who needed Pākehā medication or treatment. Sometime between 1908 and … to Meremere pā from as far away as Gisborne. Many required Pākehā medical attention but could not be sent away for …
Type: Biography
… Māori were more willing to receive vaccinations than many Pākehā. The epidemic was declared over by December 1913, … The Māori death rate was more than eight times that for Pākehā. The highest regional death rates for Pākehā were in Southland, King Country, Wellington and …
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Part of story: Epidemics
… from kōrero (oral history) and archaeological research. Pākehā ideas For European settlers historic places were … as pā sites, few considered New Zealand old enough to have Pākehā equivalents. The capitalist idea of creative … Northland. As the first area to be settled permanently by Pākehā, it included New Zealand’s oldest wooden and stone …
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Part of story: Historic places
… Taonui protested, ‘What are these four to do among so many Pakehas; where will their voices be as compared with the … or documents were translated into te reo Māori and few Pākehā MPs could understand parliamentary speeches given in …
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Part of story: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties
… affects health. The health experiences of Māori and Pākehā women have been very different over the whole period … Island women has not, generally, been as good as that of Pākehā, although was often better than that of Māori. Health … the 20th centuries saw a major improvement in the health of Pākehā women. Driving this shift were the benefits of …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… hospitals commissioned by Governor George Grey for poor Pākehā and Māori patients. Among those supporting its … next to Pukekura Park. It was probably the first Pākehā building to be specifically kept for historical … after his hanging caused a ‘thrill of horror’ 1 in Pākehā society. The detail that the Pai Mārire leader …
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Part of story: Historic places
… Rangitāne, Muaūpoko and Ngāti Raukawa engaged with Pākehā in the flax trade, forming many settlements along the lower Manawatū River. Pākehā arrivals The Māori newcomers were still determining … the Rangitīkei and Manawatū rivers – was being leased by Pākehā from Māori owners for grazing sheep and cattle. The …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… expressed in this song by Tuini Ngāwai: Te mātauranga o te Pākehā He mea whakatō hei tinanatanga Mō wai rā, mō Hātana … of the ‘noble savage’ as a way of critiquing contemporary Pākehā society. This took a number of forms. The poet James … saw Māori communalism as an alternative to the harshness of Pākehā urban society, which he thought created battered …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… four new ‘Māori’ seats elected by Māori but represented by Pākehā MPs, three in the North Island and one in the south. … As well as restoring the balance of North and South Island Pākehā MPs, the Maori Representation Act 1867, introduced by … to enact wise laws to promote good, and for Māori and Pākehā to work together. He spoke in Māori, and his words …
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Part of story: Ngā māngai – Māori representation
… is originally an Aryan race’. 1 Cultural nationalism For Pākehā, Aryanism laundered Māori culture into a form … of New Zealand as a paradise of racial harmony, featuring Pākehā as the world’s best managers of natives. New Zealand … at least one up on being a dying race. But it did mean that Pākehā and Māori could join forces in being racist towards …
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Part of story: European ideas about Māori
… racial oppression’ in New Zealand. In a poem, he lamented: ‘Pākehā flies cruelly have driven away Māori flies. Pākehā grass has dried out Māori grass without affection to …
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Part of story: Japanese
… tangata tupua (foreign or demonic people) and eventually Pākehā (non-Māori, or European), a term which was in use by … Craik’s 1830 book about Māori, The New Zealanders , a Pākehā–Māori man is introduced as ‘a white New Zealander’ …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… the trader a keen desire to reap the economic benefits of Pākehā settlement in his area. He expressed his concern over … George Hawke, he commenced a pattern of settling Pākehā on tribal lands. In 1838 he was residing at Te … embraced both the religion and farming practices of the Pākehā. He was visited at Kaihū in 1838 by the CMS …
Type: Biography
… organisations worked hard to raise money for the MEF, few Pākehā helped them, and despite funds being matched by the … usefulness of te reo (Māori language) was widely held by Pākehā – but not by Māori. Ngā Tamatoa and others petitioned … schools. Kura are run by Māori for Māori (and interested Pākehā) though funded by the govenment. Kōhanga and kura …
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Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… and the Crown focused attention on Māori political rights. Pākehā politicians such as Donald McLean argued that giving … gave Māori men universal suffrage 12 years before their Pākehā counterparts. But four seats was a small concession: … a per-capita basis, Māori were entitled to around 15 seats (Pākehā had 72). The seats were intended to be temporary, but …
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Part of story: Voting rights
… Māori and early Pākehā It is likely that only a few hundred Māori lived in … Port Underwood, Kaikōura and other localities brought some Pākehā to the region, but the total population would not … Māori population was decreasing. A continuous history of Pākehā settlement dates from the 1850s. The heart of …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… doubly alienated, as they were rejected by the dominant Pākehā culture and yet lived at a distance from their centres of traditional culture. Pākehā concepts Pākehā characterisations of Māori were often determined by …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities