Māori academic staff make up 10 % of the total, and hold one-quarter of all senior positions throughout the University.

* Angeline Greensill ( b. 1948 ), Māori political rights campaigner, academic and leader

* Professor Sir Hirini Moko Mead, Māori Studies academic.

* Professor Pou Temara, Māori Studies academic.

* Professor Ranginui Walker, Māori Studies academic.

Many of Turia's supporters, such as Mana Motuhake leader Willie Jackson and Māori academic Pita Sharples, claimed that Māori who formerly supported Labour would flock to the new party en masse.

The most notable, perhaps, was his involvement in academic and literary circles – in this period, he published a number of works on significant Māori culture, with Nga moteatea, a collection of Māori songs, being one of his better known works.

Pita Russell Sharples, CBE, ( born Peter Russell Sharples, 20 July 1941 ), a Māori academic and politician, currently co-leads the Māori Party.

In addition to his academic work, Sharples has long advocated a separate Māori political party.

She shares the party leadership with Pita Sharples, a Māori academic.

This group pursued a more academic type of reform, focused around socially liberal causes such as women's suffrage and Māori rights.

* 23 August: The Māori Party launches its campaign for the general election with co-leader Dr Pita Sharples suggesting that the party would not form a coalition with a major party, but would offer support to a government on a case by case basis.

The current Minister of Māori Affairs is Dr. Pita Sharples.

** Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother in Māori mythology

Papa and Rangi held each other in a tight embraceIn Māori mythology the primal couple Rangi and Papa ( or Ranginui and Papatuanuku ) appear in a creation myth explaining the origin of the world.

In Māori mythology, Tāne ( also called Tāne Mahuta, Tāne nui a Rangi, and several other names ) is the god of forests and of birds, and the son of Ranginui and Papatuanuku, the sky father and the earth mother, who lie in a tight embrace.

* In Māori mythology, Ranginui was the sky father.

He ran foul of local Māori, and was forced to flee, kidnapping one of the chiefs, Ranginui.

Michael Walker ( born 1984 ) is a New Zealand jockey of Māori ancestry.

Māori established separate tribes, built fortified villages ( Pā ), hunted and fished, traded commodities, developed agriculture, arts and weaponry, and kept a detailed oral history.

The latter was designed by a Māori architect with a detailed knowledge of carving and weaving.

Written in Māori the letter used the word " pākehā " to mean British European, and the words " tau iwi " to mean strangers ( non British ) as shown in the translation that year of the letter from Māori to English by the missionary William Yate.

On 28 October 1835, Busby oversaw a hui ( forum ) held at Waitangi, at which a flag was selected for New Zealand and a declaration of independence written by Busby was signed by 36 Māori chiefs ; both were acknowledged the following year by the King in a letter from Lord Glenelg.

Competition for land was a primary cause of the New Zealand Land Wars of the 1860s and 1870s, in which the Taranaki and Waikato regions were invaded by colonial troops and Māori of these regions had much of their land taken from them.

Local Māori were the target of raids by Ngāpuhi during the Musket Wars, and several pā sites from this period can still be found beside the Waikato River. In December 2011 several rua or food storage pits were found near the Waikato River bank, close to the Waikato museum.

During the early stages of the Waikato War the Forest Rangers were used to protect the army's supply lines from marauding Māori, patrolling mainly in the Hunua Ranges south of Auckland and trying to intercept enemy war parties before they reached the Great South Road.

It was during this period that they were involved in a dramatic rescue of some soldiers ambushed by the Māori while swimming in the Waikato River.

But he said the Māori victory was a hollow one, leading to the invasion of the Waikato.

After receiving a series of 18 threatening letters from Wiremu Tamihana, the Waikato leader who was until then was considered one of the more peaceful rangatira and who had negotiated the truce at the end of the First Taranki War, on 9 July 1863 Governor Grey expelled virtually all the Māori living in the territory controlled by the British south of Auckland after Kingitanga Maori refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen.

The conflict, which overlapped the wars in Waikato and Tauranga, was fuelled by a combination of factors: lingering Māori resentment over the sale of land at Waitara in 1860 and government delays in resolving the issue ; a large-scale land confiscation policy launched by the government in late 1863 ; and the rise of the Hauhau movement, an extremist part of the Pai Marire syncretic religion, which was strongly opposed to the alienation of Māori land and eager to strengthen Māori identity.

), National Library of New Zealand, Index of Māori Names, The New Zealand Collection of the University of Waikato Library, unpublished manuscript compiled about 1925

The conflict, which overlapped the wars in Waikato and Tauranga, was fuelled by a combination of factors: lingering Māori resentment over the sale of land at Waitara in 1860 and government delays in resolving the issue ; a large-scale land confiscation policy launched by the government in late 1863 ; and the rise of the Hauhau movement, an extremist part of the Pai Marire syncretic religion, which was strongly opposed to the alienation of Māori land and eager to strengthen Māori identity.

The five tribes encamped in the area – Atiawa, Taranaki, Ngatiruanui, Ngatirauru and Whanganui – promptly requested assistance from Ngāti Maniapoto and Waikato Māori to respond to what they regarded as an act of war.

Te Rōpū Manukura is the Kaitiaki ( guardian ) of the Treaty of Waitangi for the University of Waikato, and acts to ensure that the University works in partnership with iwi to meet tertiary needs and aspirations of Māori communities.

In 2011, Waikato Management School ’ s MBA programme for Māori leaders won AMBA ’ s inaugural MBA Innovation Award.

The Invasion of Waikato was a campaign during the middle stages of the New Zealand Wars, fought in the North Island of New Zealand from July 1863 to April 1864 between the military forces of the Colonial Government and a federation of rebel Māori tribes known as the Kingitanga Movement.

The Waikato campaign differed from the previous Māori Campaign in Taranaki in that it was planned by the governor to end the threat posed by the rebel King Movement.

After receiving a series of 18 threatening letters from Tamihana, the Waikato leader who was until then was considered one of the more peaceful rangatira and who had negotiated the truce at the end of the First Taranki War, on 9 July 1863 Governor Grey expelled virtually all the Māori living in the territory controlled by the British south of Auckland after Kingitanga Maori refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen.

On 17 July they advanced to the banks of the Waikato River and 500 soldiers advanced up a ridge and defeated a force of 400 Māori led by Te Huirama of Ngati Mahutawho at Koheroa.

Most of the captured Māori subsequently escaped from Kawau Island and returned to the Waikato but by then the war was long over.

The English version can be said to give the British Crown sovereignty over New Zealand but in the Māori version the Crown receives kawanatanga, which, arguably, is a lesser power ( see interpretations of the Treaty ).

A comment in Grey's Polynesian Mythology may have given the Māori something they did not have before — as A. W Reed put it, " In Polynesian Mythology Grey said that when Tāwhaki's ancestors released the floods of heaven, the earth was overwhelmed and all human beings perished — thus providing the Māori with his own version of the universal flood " ( Reed 1963: 165, in a footnote ).

Rewa, a Catholic chief, who had been influenced by the French Catholic Bishop Pompallier, said " The Māori people don't want a governor!

Māori present at the signing of the Treaty would have placed more value and reliance on what Hobson and the missionaries said, rather than the words of the actual Treaty.

As far as Māori literature can be said to exist, it is principally literature in English dealing with Māori themes.

Key said the Māori flag would not replace the New Zealand flag but would fly alongside it to recognise the partnership the Crown and Māori entered into when signing the Treaty of Waitangi.

Sharples said the Māori flag was a simple way to recognise the status of Māori as tangata whenua.

The name Manukau, from the Manukau Harbour west of the city, is of Māori origin, and means ' wading birds ', although it has been suggested that the name of the harbour was also sometimes rendered as Mānuka, meaning a marker post with which an early chief is said to have claimed the area.

In early 1844, the new Governor, Robert Fitzroy investigated and at a meeting with Te Rauparaha, Te Rangihaeata and other Māori said: " In the first place, the white men were in the wrong.

As with most other settler societies, it can be said descriptively that Pākehā contemporary culture is an amalgam of cultural practices, tensions, and accommodations: British / European with some Māori and Polynesian influences and more recently wider cultural inputs, particularly from Chinese and other Far Eastern cultures.

The causes were similar and the protagonists almost the same, namely, the disputed purchase of titles to land by the New Zealand Company from the Māori people, and the desire of the settlers to move on to land before disputes over said titles were resolved.

It is also said that many Māori reject tribal affiliation because of a working class unemployed attitude, defiance and frustration.

The Māori name for the cliffs is Te Kurī-a-Pāoa, meaning The Dog of Pāoa, as this was what it was originally said to look like.

The name means " Glistening Waters ", and is said to have been applied by an early Māori explorer, Huanui, who saw the rivers and lake from the mountains to the west.

The then Governor, George Bowen said the Nene did more than any other Māori to promote colonisation and to establish the Queen's authority.

" Wakefield said the reserves – " a very important part of our projected plan " – would remain inalienable to ensure that the Māori would not quickly sell the land to speculators.

In a statement to explain his position on 30 September 2006, Brash said that the Government had no responsibility to address the over-representation of Māori in negative social statistics.

Henare, who had often criticised the Alliance's ( and Mana Motuhake's ) approach to Māori affairs, said that Kopu was welcome to join New Zealand First, although this was later rejected by other members of the party.