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Jacky Marmon

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Watch a television clip on Jacky Marmon, perhaps the most notorious Pākehā–Māori. He was a runaway convict who arrived in Hokianga in the early 1820s and negotiated between settlers and Māori until he lost faith in his own people, commenting, 'Henceforth I am Maori in thought, word and deed since among the savages I have found more true faithfulness man to man than in the boasted European.'

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Mark Derby, Cultural go-betweens – Pākehā–Māori, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/26789/jacky-marmon (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 22 March 2011.