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• Enterprise

  The top of the South Island has long been an area of enterprise and ingenuity. These are stories about those enterprises - business, farming, fishing, industry; and the infrastructure which...

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• Maori

  The Māori of Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough have a rich and living history. This section tells some of the stories about the people and their land- ngā kōrero...

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• Ropoama's Spring

  Ropoama Te One, a rangitira of Te Atiawa[http://teatiawa.iwi.nz/], was one of the signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi, and one of the main signatories to the Waitohi[sitetree_link,id=195] Purchase, by...

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• Te Tau Ihu Maori and the Taranaki Wars

  On 17 March 1860 Government troops attacked the pa Te Kohia at Waitara, North Taranaki, stronghold of Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitaake of Te Atiawa  and his followers.  Te...

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• Maori and education

  Pre-European Maori learned by oral methods which developed strong memory skills and powerful oratory. Early European visitors and settlers admired Maori intelligence. Dieffenbach (1839) wrote: Greenwood, Sarah: The Motueka...

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