Missionaries Flashcards
1
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Hongi Hika
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-carver (including one at Te Papa of himself), learnt to write, associated with missionaries and muskets
2
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Thomas Kendall
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- CMS, printer, one of NZs first Christian missionaries (1814-1821), pioneered transcription of Maori Language
- Attracted hostility from other missionaries through the depth of his investigations into how Maori understood the universe
- Teacher of the ‘useful arts’ i.e. farming
- “The Natives uncivilise me” = exposure to Maori ideology and life left him questioning
- “Fall from Grace”= had an affair with Tungaroa the daughter of a Tohunga from Rangihoua
- Write book titled He Korero published 1815
- Worked with Maori word lists
3
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Kendall and Lee’s Grammar of the modern Maori Language (1820)
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- more comprehensive than Kendall’s one from 1815
- print nature= key
- Still key differences from how we see the language today i.e. Shungee= Hongi
- Differences in Vowels and Macrons
- Lee was a professor of Arabic and so was quite skilled at orthography style work
4
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Bradford Haami (historian)
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- by 1830 Maori desire for books was insatiable, books used as wages
- Some Maori acquired a working knowledge of reading and writing within three months
5
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Edward Markham
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-Claimed in 1834 that ‘not less than ten thousand people’ could read
6
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William Brown
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-Claimed in 1845 that great numbers of Maori ‘had these acquirements [i.e. reading] and that too amongst tribes who have no intercourse with the missionaries’
7
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Binney et al reading
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- Establishment of British colony in NSW (1788) was key for contact
- “[NZ] was gradually and surely drawn into the British world.”
- Missionaries were valued because of teh skills, articles they bought
- Patronage was a “double-edged sword” i.e. Hongi Hika
- mid 1820s key change with Hongi’s death, missionary growing own food, teachingin te reo
- Change of CMS leader to Henry Williams key
- 1837 CM printed NT in Maori, 1939 Book of Common Prayer
- disease, muskets key in increasing conversion
- But Christianity incorporated into traditional Maori Belief systems
8
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Marsden
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- Invited specific Maori to study with him at his model farm in Parramatta (i.e. Ruatara)
- Gave first Christain sermon at Rangihoua on Christmas ADy 1814
- 1794 appointed chaplain of NSW
- Preferred Maori to Aboriginal people
9
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Alice Te Punga Somerville Reading
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- Looks at both the New Zealand Seminary and Native institution in Parramatta Sydney
- Mainly people from Northland who got to go there
- New Zealander= Maori
- Links everything together through the street in Parramatta named New Zealand Street
- Hard to find out much about what the children sent to the institutions thought, felt etc.
- 5 Maori children at the Native Institute but one called Kooley died and was buried in an unmarked grave
