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Book The Story of the Maori People

Download or read book The Story of the Maori People written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of the Maori People  Etc   Fourth Impression

Download or read book The Story of the Maori People Etc Fourth Impression written by Gilbert Llewelyn Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maori

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  • Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-07-31
  • ISBN : 9781724562364
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book The Maori written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "When one house dies, a second lives." - Maori proverb In 1769, Captain James Cook's historic expedition in the region would lead to an English claim on Australia, but before he reached Australia, he sailed near New Zealand and spent weeks mapping part of New Zealand's coast. Thus, he was also one of the first to observe and take note of the indigenous peoples of the two islands. His instructions from the Admiralty were to endeavor at all costs to cultivate friendly relations with tribes and peoples he might encounter, and to regard any native people as the natural and legal possessors of any land they were found to occupy. Cook, of course, was not engaged on an expedition of colonization, so when he encountered for the first time a war party of Maori, he certainly had no intention of challenging their overlordship of Aotearoa, although he certainly was interested in discovering more about them. It was on October 6, 1769 that land was sighted from the masthead of the HMS Endeavour. The ostensible purpose of the expedition was to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun, but in sealed orders, to be opened only when these astrological observations were complete, he was instructed to search for evidence of the fabled Terra Australis. Approaching from the east, having rounded Cape Horn and calling in at Tahiti, the Endeavour arrived off the coast of New Zealand, and two days later it dropped anchor in what would later be known as Poverty Bay. No sign of life or habitation was seen until on the morning of the 9 October when smoke was observed to be rising inland, indicating that the territory was indeed inhabited. Cook and a group of sailors set off for shore in two boats and leaving four men behind to mind the boats, the remainder set off inland over a line of low hills. The sentries, however, were surprised by the arrival of a group of four Maori, who adopted an aggressive posture, and when one lifted a lance to hurl, he was immediately shot down. The impression that all of this left on Cook and the scientific members of the expedition was mixed. By then there had already been several encounters with Polynesian people scattered about the South Pacific, and although occasionally warlike, there were none quite so aggressive as the Maori. In fairness, it must be added that the Maori understanding of Cook's appearance, and what it represented was by necessity partial, and in approaching it they simply fell back on default behavior, applicable to any stranger approaching their shores. The presence on board the Endeavour of Tupaia allowed for a certain amount of superficial exchange, and a little trade, but little else, and Cook was intrigued by this upright, warlike and handsome people. Taking into account similarities of appearance, customs and languages spread across a vast region of scattered islands, it was obvious that the Polynesian race emerged from a single origin, and that origin Cook speculated was somewhere in the Malay Peninsula or the "East Indies." In this regard, he was not too far from the truth. The origins of the Polynesian race have been fiercely debated since then, and it was only relatively recently, through genetic and linguistic research, that it can now be stated with certainty that the Polynesian race originated on the Chinese mainland and the islands of Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. Oceania was, indeed, the last major region of the Earth to be penetrated and settled by people, and Polynesia was the last region of Oceania to be inhabited. The vehicle of this expansion was the outrigger canoe, and aided by tides and wind patterns, a migration along the Malay Archipelago, and across the wide expanses of the South Pacific, began sometime between 3000 and 1000 BCE, reaching the western Polynesian Islands in about 900 BCE.

Book Maori Lore  The Traditions of the Maori People  with the More Important of Their Legends   Primary Source Edition

Download or read book Maori Lore The Traditions of the Maori People with the More Important of Their Legends Primary Source Edition written by James Izett and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India  Their Religion and Institutions  Contributions to a knowledge of the cosmogony  mythology  religious ideas  life and manners  of the Indians in the Vedic age

Download or read book Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India Their Religion and Institutions Contributions to a knowledge of the cosmogony mythology religious ideas life and manners of the Indians in the Vedic age written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Maori of Nelson and Marlborough

Download or read book History of Maori of Nelson and Marlborough written by Hilary Mitchell and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Te Ara Hou - The New Society is the second volume in the history of Maori in Nelson and Marlborough. This history details Maori participation in the European settlement society, from commitment to Christianity to enthusiasm for commerce and relationships with Europeans. It shows how Maori fared under European institutions, struggled to survive and how Maori culture and language were swamped by assimilation and Anglicisation.

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India  Their Religion and Institutions Collected  Translated  and Illustrated by J  Muir    London   Tr  bner   Co

Download or read book Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India Their Religion and Institutions Collected Translated and Illustrated by J Muir London Tr bner Co written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maori Weapons in Pre European New Zealand

Download or read book Maori Weapons in Pre European New Zealand written by Jeff Evans and published by Libro International. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable introduction to the unique armory of weapons that Maori developed prior to contact with Europeans, including details of manufacture and accounts of combat.

Book The Academy

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  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 664 pages

Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: