lecture 12 - the meeting of peoples

Question 1

When does Cook first explore NZ?

Answer 1

The 1770s

Question 2

What is the Maori name for the Bay of Islands?

Answer 2

Pewhairangi

Question 3

What is the Maori name for the Foveaux Strait?

Answer 3

Te Ara a Kiwa

Question 4

What are words that early maori used to describe the early European arrivals?

Answer 4

tangata ke (strangers), maitai (from the sea), tangata tupua (goblin people)

Question 5

When did whalers from NSW arrive at the Bay of Islands?

Answer 5

from the 1790s

Question 6

When is their a temporary cessation of whaling, and why?

Answer 6

In 1809, after utu against the Boyd

Question 7

Why was the Boyd burnt?

Answer 7

Burnt by Maori in 1809 after the crew ill treated a young rangatira on board

Question 8

Over what decades was sealing first established in NZ?

Answer 8

1790s-1810s

Question 9

Where did early sealers come from?

Answer 9

Australia (e.g. NSW, Port Jackson), USA

Question 10

When was the first shore whaling station established in NZ?

Answer 10

1829

Question 11

Where were whaling stations set up in NZ?

Answer 11

In the South Island and lower North island

Question 12

How did early whalers and Maori establish connections?

Answer 12

By marrying Maori women and trading with them. Participated in wive’s whanau and helped to run their businesses

Question 13

Who kidnaps Tuki-Tahua and takes him to Norfold Island to teach convict to make flax rope?

Answer 13

Philip King

Question 14

Who draws up the 1793 ‘cultural map of New Zealand’ after relationships with Philip King at Norfolk island?

Answer 14

Tuki-tahua

Question 15

Who is the first Christian Missionary in NZ?

Answer 15

Samuel Marsden, NSW principal chaplain

Question 16

Who is Te Pahi, and how was he involved in the early settlement of missionaries?

Answer 16

He visited Governor King in NSW and meets marsden, a missionary. Mistakenly killed by lynch-mob who thought he burnt the Boyd

Question 17

Which Maori man was involved in helping Marsden settle, after being nursed back to health by him?

Answer 17

Ruatara

Question 18

Where does Marsden settle in NZ?

Answer 18

Rangihoua - Northern bay of Islands

Question 19

Who protects Samuel Marsden in his mission after the death of Ruatara?

Answer 19

Hongi Hika

Question 20

Who were the 2 alliances that competed for access to Pakeha and missionaries in Pewhairangi between 1770s and 1826?

Answer 20

Hongi’s Northern Alliance, the Southern Alliance

Question 21

What is the Maori name for Russel, a key early settlement in the bay of islands?

Answer 21

Kororareka

Question 22

What were the implications for early intermarrying of Ngai Tahu with pakeha whalers, sealers, etc.?

Answer 22

Ngai tahu had a high mixed-descent population allowing for integration with Pakeha communiites

Question 23

What was the CMS?

Answer 23

Christian Missionary Society

Question 24

Who was the leader of Nga Puhi in the 1820s, and visited britain with Thomas Kendall?

Answer 24

Hongi Hika

Question 25

Who was Te Raiparaha?

Answer 25

Rangatira of Ngati Toa Rangatira of the Southern North island, active around the 1830s

Question 26

What iwi was Te Wherowhero from?

Answer 26

Waikato-Tainui

Question 27

Who does Tw Wherowhero fight in the 1840s?

Answer 27

nga puhi, iwi in taranaki

Question 28

In what time period do iwi rush to buy muskets?

Answer 28

1810s-1830s

Question 29

What do Maori trade for muskets?

Answer 29

Potatoes, flax, pigs

Question 30

What is the Maori name coined to describe European introduced diseases?

Answer 30

Mate pakeha

Question 31

What type of mate pakeha caused low birth rates, and aided in the decline of the maori population?

Answer 31

Sexually transmitted diseases

Question 32

Who, form the bible, did many maori identify with?

Answer 32

The jews from the Old Testament

Question 33

Who was Thomas Kendall?

Answer 33

A British Missionary