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  • ...of Tamati Pewhairangi of Tokomaru Bay, where she stayed until she was sent to a boarding school for Maori girls at the age of 14. ...also a widow, but he died after only a year, leaving her with a baby son. To support her family she now became a canning factory worker and farm laborer
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  • Long Lance (born Sylvester Long) claimed to be a Blackfoot or Blackfoot-Cherokee chief. In fact he was almost certainly not a Blackfoot a When he was 12 he left home to join a wild west show. He attended the US Bureau of Indian Affairs school a
    3 KB (441 words) - 03:04, 26 February 2018
  • ...So baby Eruera was born in a makeshift thatched hut and immediately given to an aunt and uncle as a [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whangai]]. They were a poo ...t]] of traditional practices which would slow Maori development, which led to him being given the epithet He Tangata Wawahi Taha (A Destroyer of Calabash
    2 KB (331 words) - 07:08, 12 October 2022
  • ...d; the version which follows is based on a recent biography which attempts to get at the truth from both the white and Maori sides. ...ttle of te Ngutu o te Manu in September 1868, a party of whites, intending to massacre a group of Maori adherents of the Pai Marire religion was ambushed
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 00:55, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:21, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,449 words) - 04:26, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:29, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:34, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,499 words) - 05:04, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 05:15, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 02:58, 5 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 03:13, 5 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 03:16, 5 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:04, 5 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:25, 5 March 2018

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