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Pakeha Maori: The extraordinary story of the Europeans who lived as Maori in early New Zealand by Trevor Bentley; published 1999 ISBN 0-14-028540-7; Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by 'A Pakeha Maori' (Frederick Edward Maning) Gutenberg ebook, originally published 1863
Michael King, a leading writer and historian on Pākehā identity, discussed the concept of distinct European New Zealander practices and imaginations in his books: [46] Being Pākehā (1985) and Being Pākehā Now (1999), and the edited collection, Pakeha: The Quest for Identity in New Zealand (1991), conceptualising Pākehā as New Zealand's ...
This company was established to attract settlers from England to set up homes and farms in New Zealand. As part of its marketing, the company promoted New Zealand as ‘a Britain of the South’. The company wanted a range of people from working class to upper class to establish a similar class system in New Zealand as in Britain. Settlers were ...
Pākehā (or Pakeha; / ˈ p ɑː k ɛ h ɑː,-k iː h ɑː,-k iː ə /; [1] Māori pronunciation: [ˈpaːkɛhaː]) is a Māori-language word used in English, particularly in New Zealand. It generally means a non-Polynesian New Zealander or more specifically a European New Zealander. [2] [3] It is not a legal term and has no definition under New ...
In the most recent New Zealand census, in 2018, 70.2 per cent of the population identified as European and 16.5 per cent as Māori.Other major pan-ethnic groups include Asians (15.1 per cent) and Pacific peoples (8.1 per cent).
The New Zealand national rugby union team and many other New Zealand sports people perform a haka, a traditional Māori challenge, before events. [159] [160] Kī-o-rahi and Tapawai are two ball sports of Māori origin. Kī-o-rahi received an unexpected boost when McDonald's chose it to represent New Zealand. [161]
The Māori settlement of New Zealand represents an end-point of a long chain of island-hopping voyages in the South Pacific.. Evidence from genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology indicates that the ancestry of Polynesian people stretches all the way back to indigenous peoples of Taiwan.
Te Riri Pakeha: The White Man's Anger. Martinborough: Alister Taylor. ISBN 9780908578115. Sinclair, Keith, ed. (1996). The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand (2 ed.). Wellington: Oxford University Press. Vaggioli, Dom Felici (2000). History of New Zealand and its Inhabitants. Translated by John Crockett.