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… Ngāi Tahu , and within months of the arrival of the first Pākehā settlers in Canterbury. Tīkao claimed descent from 21 … Hōne Taare Tīkao helped his father farm, and worked for Pākehā settlers. He moved away at the time of his first … led him into easy contact with prominent Canterbury Pākehā, and he frequently delivered addresses on Māori …
Type: Biography
… Muskets and war The arrival of Pākehā, who traded muskets with Māori, had a noticeable … maize, fruit, vegetables, pigs and potatoes for trade. Pākehā pastoralists had established themselves in Wairarapa … areas for tangata whenua, and when they were drained by Pākehā for agricultural purposes the soil was very rich and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… of the Māori people, they also urged adaptation to the Pākehā world. Young Māori Party leaders Apirana Ngata and … hospitals in England. Conscription In 1916 conscription for Pākehā males was introduced to ensure reinforcements for … war Rua discouraged his followers from volunteering. Some Pākehā feared that he was a Māori ‘Kaiser’, actively …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… lands. By mid-1864 western and central Waikato was in Pākehā hands and many of its Māori inhabitants were in exile … lands to the south, which became known as the King Country. Pākehā settlement Although explorers, traders and missionaries came before, the first permanent Pākehā settlers were soldiers guarding militia townships. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato region
… myth. Māori contributed to the ethnographies written by Pākehā such as George Grey and Elsdon Best . Their principal … little opportunity or incentive to break through into the Pākehā world of higher education. With few exceptions, a … competition. The work laments the negative effects of Pākehā modernity on Māori society while celebrating …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki
… of ancestors and their family relationships. Pākehā genealogies share similar structural forms to Māori … the generations orally, though many are now documented. Pākehā genealogies are usually recorded on paper (written as … often begin with the great overlapping migrations of Māori, Pākehā, Pasifika and Asian ancestors. Uses of genealogies An …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… were welcome at Parihaka, although its leaders rejected Pākehā education for their children, having learnt to distrust Pākehā values. Increasingly they sent their people to … sets of followers. Māori, too, were sometimes misled by the Pākehā view, which was widely disseminated in newspapers. …
Type: Biography
… European accounts of Māori origins A hundred years earlier Pākehā interested in how our ‘two worlds’ touched asked a … that Māori had the same ancestry and motivations as Pākehā: ‘No freebooting Huns or Vandals, mad for plunder and … Hīroa) . Different interpretations Before the arrival of Pākehā, a Māori seer prophesied: ‘Kei tua i te awe mapara, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Non-fiction
… for adults. Although the people were deeply suspicious of Pākehā, Sister Annie built close relationships with Tūhoe. … from the nearest telephone. As the only permanent resident Pākehā for many years, Sister Annie not only taught and gave … to respect each other, Sister Annie was one of the very few Pākehā to be allowed into his round temple at Maungapōhatu. …
Type: Biography
… country are native, even in the largest cities. The Pākehā settlers who came to New Zealand enthusiastically … and welcome swallow have colonised New Zealand since Pākehā settlement created habitats that suited them. These …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Land birds – overview
… settlers from attack. The cost of the flag was £20 and Pākehā women from Whanganui, Rangitīkei and Manawatū came … centre is a gilt crown, below which are two clasped hands, Pākehā and Māori, with the word ‘Moutoa’. Tangiharuru …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā haki – Māori and flags
… was to administer Māori land. There was a mix of Māori and Pākehā membership on these councils, with a Māori majority, but later the government changed this to a Pākehā majority. The Māori councils allowed tribal members …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā rōpū – Māori organisations
… people have tried to interpret the world around them. For Pākehā most of their ideas have come from outside, and there … in their ritual and karakia. Adapting European ideas Once Pākehā arrived, Māori once more engaged intellectually with …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… purposes. New Zealand settler records In New Zealand, Pākehā births and deaths were officially recorded from 1848, … for death certificates. By the 1870s virtually all Pākehā deaths were registered, so by that time the records …
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Part of story: Death rates and life expectancy
… included dioceses and parishes, Māori churches, schools for Pākehā and Māori boys and girls, and theological colleges. … England was, numerically, the strongest denomination in the Pākehā population (about 43% of the non-Māori population …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: English
… history, recording the interaction between Māori and Pākehā in government, war, religion, education, everyday … had translations of articles from English newspapers. Pākehā wrote to the papers in Māori and translated material …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… entered into with the idea that Māori would benefit from Pākehā settling nearby. Māori were eager to have access to … transfer of land from Māori ownership to government and Pākehā ownership. This had a severe impact on Māori tribal …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… built within an urban environment. In many cases, Māori and Pākehā worked together in community fundraising efforts. … and city have also provided facilities where Māori and Pākehā can learn and participate in all aspects of Māori …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… among Ngāti Hauā communities, and traded surplus produce to Pākehā settlers in Auckland. On the diplomatic front he … Māori king. For this he was given the title 'Kingmaker' by Pākehā. A number of incidents, including a rebuff when he … meetings to consider resistance to further land sales and Pākehā encroachment, the potential disintegration of Māori …
Type: Biography
… as Tahi to his intimates, and as Sam Maioha junior to his Pākehā business associates. He was the son of Wiremu … to act as a magistrate during the hearings of disputes with Pākehā, with local Māori over property, or cases of petty … Maioha's Māori activities increased his status in the Pākehā world, as did his membership of the Freemasons; …
Type: Biography