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… Māori were eager to prove their equality with their Pākehā comrades as warriors and to earn the full benefits … Overall command initially went to George Dittmer, a Pākehā professional soldier and First World War veteran. At … marching song became enormously popular with Māori and Pākehā audiences during the Second World War. It was …
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Part of story: Ngā pakanga ki tāwāhi – Māori and overseas wars
… argued that the Māori seats should be abolished. Opposition Pākehā MPs proposed the seats’ abolition in 1902 because an … and corruption’. Pirani felt the Māori seats prevented ‘Pakeha members of this House from taking that interest in …
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Part of story: Ngā māngai – Māori representation
… stray from the village ‘in case the patupaiarehe gets you’. Pākehā Pakepakehā is another word for patupaiarehe. It may have given rise to the term Pākehā (a New Zealander of European descent). To Māori, …
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Part of story: Patupaiarehe
… From the 1880s Pākehā New Zealand became a more settled society, shaped by … continued through the following decades. By the 1930s Pākehā families usually had just two children. Living in …
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Part of story: Women and men
… ‘Mauria tō moni, nāku tonu taku riri, ehara i a koe i te Pākehā.’ (‘Take your money away, the fight was mine, not yours, the Pākehā.’) When it heeded their warnings not to confiscate …
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Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… in 1902 at Waiōmatatini on the East Coast. Minister of Pākehā affairs The Kauhanganui, or parliament of the King … of native affairs, the Kauhanganui had a minister of Pākehā affairs. Kauhanganui The Kīngitanga, or King …
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Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements
… also Onehunga began as military settlements, from which the Pākehā invasion of Waikato was launched in the 1860s. In the … railway-line, in which nearly all the Maori men (like my Pakeha father) worked at one of the three freezing works … …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… still strongly affected Māori confidence in tohunga. Some Pākehā missionaries attributed the spread of disease to a … there were so many that they were seen as a threat by both Pākehā and Māori authorities. The Tohunga Suppression Act …
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Part of story: Rongoā – medicinal use of plants
… had farmed their own land, but as the best land moved into Pākehā ownership, Māori increasingly worked in contract … Contract workers Many Māori relied on seasonal work on Pākehā farms. From the late 1800s Māori formed shearing …
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Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… Court The Native Land Court was set up in the 1860s, with Pākehā judges assisted by Māori assessors. In the … a means to an English-speaking end. From the late 1850s the Pākehā population was greater than the Māori population. …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… considerable courage in going as a representative of a Pākehā religion to a territory where Pākehā were scorned and hated following the conflicts of the … diocesan superiors. Despite support from local Māori and Pākehā, Bennett's resignation followed. Bennett moved to …
Type: Biography
… of the Wairarapa people coincided with the beginning of Pākehā interest in the region for settlement and for … of his mana, and known to the Wairarapa people as 'Hiko's Pākehā'. The two men were sometimes at odds, when the one … Angus's son Hugh was also known as Tuhitarata. After the Pākehā family was established, Te Hiko built his pā at Te …
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… Act 1863 had been used to confiscate Māori land for Pākehā settlement. There was even a rumour that Queen … was made to establish a boundary, or aukati, to keep out Pākehā and their Te Arawa allies, both of whom were seen as … crush the mana of Ngāti Awa for all time and to establish Pākehā sovereignty over the land. It was a winner-take-all …
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… for the land In Tutira , Herbert Guthrie-Smith lamented Pākehā disrespect for the environment: ‘When a block of land … his acres their due? Aue, taukari e, ano te kuware o te pakeha kahore nei i whakaaro ki te mauri o te whenua. Alas! … by the author for over half a century. Both Māori and Pākehā have a place in the story of this sheep station, but …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… management on Māori. Rates of marriage The proportion of Pākehā men marrying increased as girls born in New Zealand … rates By the early 20th century the birth rate for Pākehā women had dropped to 3.5 per woman because women … up in large families. In the 1911 census, two-thirds of Pākehā children with mothers in their 40s belonged to …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… movement. As war approached, he became bitterly opposed to Pākehā institutions and government. Wahanui fought at … the inevitability of the King Country being opened to Pākehā. Their strategy was to control this process while … of bad feeling on the part of Ngāti Maniapoto towards Pākehā institutions and government. In September 1884 …
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… as his prophet, commanded him to cast off the yoke of the Pākehā and promised the restoration of the birthright of … was at first considered mad by his relations as well as by Pākehā observers, but he saw the period after his vision as … whose respective tasks were to promote peace and respond to Pākehā aggression. The religious duty of the Tuku was to …
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… amounts of fish were eaten. Māori ate more seafood than Pākehā; their consumption of 20 kilograms per person in 1941 was nearly three times the national average. As Pākehā became familiar with the taste of New Zealand fish, …
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Part of story: Seafood
… by northern Māori and at managing relationships with Pākehā, many of whom became bound to Māori families through … agreed to the sale of the Otago block, opening the way for Pākehā settlement. Decline In the late 1840s the shore …
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Part of story: Otago region
… Te ao hurihuri , a book of Māori perspectives edited by Pākehā historian Michael King , was published. It was unique … In 1989 Hugh Kawharu edited a book on Māori and Pākehā perspectives of the treaty. Māori contributors …
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