Anti-Māori sentiment
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Anti-Māori sentiment, broadly defined, is the dislike, distrust, discrimination, and racism directed against Māori people as an ethnicity and Māori culture. Various scholars have characterised anti-Mā
'Hori reading notice' (Observer, 4 July 1914). Note the character's use of pidgin English
Pukekohe (modern day South Auckland), c. 1910. In the mid-century Pukekohe was one of the most notoriously segregated towns in the country.
Pākehā
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Pākehā or Pakeha 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. It is not a leg
Anti-Māori sentiment
…all marked by anti-Māori sentiment, often justified through false claims Māori were "dying out". Anti-Māori sentiment developed as views of Māori among Pākehā evolved, from the earliest notions of "noble savages" to 20th-century stereotypes of Māori as being fat, lazy, dirty, happy-go-lucky and unintelligent…
Māori and Pākehā boys at school swimming pool, Auckland, 1970
Drawing of a traditional waka showing Māori rowers facing forwards (1773)