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… brought him home to Wairarapa. At this time Pākehā settlers were taking an interest in the sheepfarming … both with older leaders and with his own generation. Pākehā regarded him as their staunch friend in the 1840s and … of older leaders, such as Ngātuere Tāwhao , and the new Pākehā gentleman settlers. As early as 1853 he built a large …
Type: Biography
… an itinerant Scot, Abel Knox, and Ngata once said that this Pākehā ancestry was the source of his methodical habits, but … that he be educated in the learning and skills of the Pākehā so that he could turn them to the benefit of Ngāti … land: while they had leased some of their hill country to Pākehā, they retained most of their better land in tribal …
Type: Biography
… year the claim is correct. Gisborne was the region’s first Pākehā settlement and has always been by far the largest. It … Gisborne, after the then colonial secretary and to avoid Pākehā confusing it with Tauranga. A borough (town) council … in 1901 to more than 15,000 in 1926. It was overwhelmingly Pākehā – in 1926 fewer than 2% of the population were Māori, …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… resources. Native health nurses Native health nurses, both Pākehā and Māori, were appointed to the Māori nursing … smallpox epidemic which resulted in some Māori deaths. Many Pākehā died in the influenza pandemic of 1918, in which … population died, a death rate more than eight times that of Pākehā. Survival of traditional healing practices …
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Part of story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health
… museums presented taonga (treasures), always with colonial Pākehā interpretations, Māori enthusiastically engaged with … a number of Māori leaders and experts collaborated with Pākehā scholars, collectors and curators to preserve their … collections attracted the attention of a new generation of Pākehā curators and academics. Their work helped provide …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… remained. Growing support for national parks among some Pākehā, and the desire of Māori to protect their land, … They will be cut up and perhaps sold, a piece going to one pakeha and a piece to another. They will become of no … In 1887, following suggestions from some prominent Pākehā, the paramount chief of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, …
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Part of story: National parks
… Islanders in New Zealand continue to eat more seafood than Pākehā. About 25% of Pacific Islanders ate shellfish at … a week in 1997, compared with 15% of Māori and only 3% of Pākehā and other groups. Pacific Islanders ate fish the most … and a range of people have been prosecuted, including Pākehā, Pacific Islanders and Māori. Asian arrivals brought …
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Part of story: Seafood
… 1886 at Waimamaku she married Samuel Thompson Cummins, a Pākehā shipbuilder who later took up farming. The couple … until this was paid. Piipi also became concerned that Pākehā settlement was placing at risk the integrity of the … Cummins died at Waipoua on 9 August 1952 embittered by ‘Te Pākehā tahae’ (the thieving Pākehā) and the repeated …
Type: Biography
… a standard trade item by the early 1800s. It was used by Pākehā to pay Māori (including children) for provisions and … or photographed with a pipe at a time when smoking by Pākehā women was seen as unacceptable. Māori youth and … taane e nga wahine, me nga tamariki taane wahine, ko ta te Pakeha tikanga mo tenei kai mo te tupeka, ma nga taane …
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… more free-standing monuments to distinguished Māori than to Pākehā. Between 1872 and 1880 there were no memorials to Pākehā, but eight to Māori, and another five were erected in … and to the Treaty of Waitangi at Te Tii marae (1881). Also, Pākehā had a desire to express gratitude to Māori who had …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… score is reached. Billiards in New Zealand – the early days Pākehā settlers arriving in New Zealand in the 1840s brought … and billiards Māori soon adopted billiards, a practice some Pākehā saw as a sign of the corruptions induced by … ball, an offence given the title of ‘Turakina’. A Pākehā journalist noted, ‘When an opponent “pots” a ball, …
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Part of story: Billiards, snooker, pool and darts
… to Māori on the basis that tribes would benefit from Pākehā settlement. Māori were eager to have access to the … agreed to the sale of the Otago block, opening the way for Pākehā settlement in the region. During the negotiations, … then sold land for the township of Auckland, hoping that Pākehā settlement would protect them from incursions by …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… were places of trade and exchange between Māori and Pākehā. Māori frequently sold produce in exchange for metal … between the two groups, and in the whaling gangs Māori and Pākehā worked alongside each other. The intensive … European settlers throughout the colony. It was clear that Pākehā did not have an uncontested claim to land in what was …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… Petone and the Kāpiti Coast. By the mid-1830s, when a few Pākehā traders arrived around the coasts, much of northern … community was led by Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. Pākehā traders The schooner Adventure arrived off the Māori … from Ngāti Te Whiti, the local hapū. In 1832 the Pākehā at the station and the local hapū at Ōtaka pā were …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… political satire or protest. Waiata for Māori and Pākehā Māori composers began using European melodies from at least the mid-19th century. Some Pākehā composers, such as Alfred Hill, adapted Māori songs … Some Māori songs became so popular that they entered both Pākehā and Māori oral tradition. These include compositions …
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Part of story: Folk, country and blues music
… however, from neighbours, including several prominent local Pākehā families, from whom he learnt the social conventions … shearing sheds or freezing works. Hēmi’s upbringing among Pākehā families, along with his sporting commitments, saw … away from his family, and he became more comfortable in Pākehā than in Māori society. As an adult he tended to avoid …
Type: Biography
… warriors. Images of the ‘dying race’ After the wars, Pākehā artists set out to record the features of what many … Lindauer’s work became much admired by both Māori and Pākehā. This was also true of his successor Charles Goldie. … rather than Māori. At the turn of the 20th century, as Pākehā New Zealanders became interested in Māori mythology …
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Part of story: Painting
… of creating goodwill and co-operation between the Māori and Pākehā of Wellington. Fulfilment of this sacred trust was … firmly resisted plans to scatter these houses among the Pākehā community and insisted that his people be kept … all Māori; the contributions to its building made by the Pākehā community meant that it was also a house for both …
Type: Biography
… tangata mā (white people), tangata pora (strange people) or Pākehā. European settlers originally called the indigenous … or natives. ‘Māori’ only emerged as a term used by Pākehā in the 1840s. Official definitions Eventually the distinctions of Māori and Pākehā became important for state policy, and official …
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Part of story: Ethnic inequalities
… titles, so it could be more easily divided and sold to Pākehā – was symbolic. The Kauhanganui was a rallying point … its 1894 constitution set up courts and police to replace Pākehā institutions. A printing press was used to produce … the Kīngitanga’s economic power. She became well-known to Pākehā as ‘Princess’ Te Puea. Limited settlement A 1927 …
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Part of story: Waikato region