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Mau and movement
A key watershed came from 1952 to 1956, during the Mau Mau Uprising, an armed local movement directed principally against the colonial government and the European settlers.
" The British killed over 4000, and the Mau Mau many more, as the assassinations and killings on all sides reflecting the ferocity of the movement and the ruthlessness with which the British suppressed it.
The second major incident arose out of an initially peaceful protest by the Mau ( which literally translates as " strongly held opinion "), a non-violent popular movement which had its beginnings in the early 1900s on Savai ' i, led by Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, an orator chief deposed by Solf.
From 1908, with the establishment of the Mau movement (" opinion movement "), Western Samoans began to assert their claim to independence.
The early beginnings of the national Mau movement began in 1908 with the ' Mau a Pule ' resistance on Savai ' i, led by orator chief Lauaki Namulau ' ulu Mamoe.
The Mau movement gained momentum with Samoa's royal leaders becoming more visible in supporting the peoples movement but strongly opposed violence.
In 2002, New Zealand's prime minister Helen Clark formally apologized for two incidents during the period of New Zealand's administration: a failure in 1918 to quarantine the SS Talune, which carried the ' Spanish ' flu ' to Samoa, leading to an epidemic which devastated the Samoan population, and the shooting of leaders of the non-violent Mau movement during a ceremonial procession in 1929.
In the early 1950s the Mau Mau movement of violent resistance to British rule was active in neighbouring Kenya.
In the Pacific, on December 28 – " Black Saturday " in Samoa – New Zealand colonial police killed 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which led the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.
* December 28 – " Black Saturday " in Samoa: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.
By the mid-1960s, this atavistic, psychopathic view of Mau Mau was being challenged by memoirs of former members and leaders that portrayed Mau Mau as an essential, if radical, component of African nationalism in Kenya, and by academic studies that analysed the movement as a modern and nationalist response to the unfairness and oppression of colonial domination ( though such studies downplayed the specifically Kikuyu nature of the movement ).

Mau and was
During the Mau Mau Uprising in 1952, the poisonous latex of the African milk bush was used to kill cattle.
Officially titled Rifle, No. 5 Mk I, it was introduced in the closing months of World War II, but did not see widespread service until the Korean War, the Mau Mau uprising, and the Malayan Emergency.
Kenyatta denied he was a leader of the Mau Mau but was convicted at trial and was sent to prison in 1953, gaining his freedom in 1961.
The next landmark publication by Koolhaas was S, M, L, XL, together with Bruce Mau, Jennifer Sigler, and Hans Werlemann ( 1995 ), a 1376-page tome combining essays, manifestos, diaries, fiction, travelogues, and meditations on the contemporary city.
One of the Mau leaders was Olaf Frederick Nelson, a half Samoan and half Swedish merchant.
Widowed during the Mau Mau years in Kenya, she was the " talented amateur " who saw her aid to Steed's cases as a service to her nation.
Mao is most likely descended from the German game Mau Mau, or from Eleusis, which was published in Martin Gardner's column in the Scientific American in June 1959.
Both the Burmese and Tonkinese breeds can be traced back to a single cat, Wong Mau, which was brought from Burma in the 1930s.
As an example, when the Hōkūle ‘ a was built to be sailed to the South Pacific to prove the voyaging capabilities of the ancient Hawaiians, master navigator Mau Piailug from Satawal was brought to Hawai ' i to teach the Hawaiians navigation.
William Jasper Blackburn, a Reconstruction U. S. Representative from Louisiana, was born on the Fourche de Mau in Randolph County in 1820.
The Mau Mau rebellion was just winding down, the settlers believing they had won a victory, and the mood reflected that struggle and that belief.

Mau and also
The Mau Mau Uprising ( also known as the Mau Mau Revolt, Mau Mau Rebellion and the Kenya Emergency ) was a military conflict that took place in Kenya between 1952 and 1960.
Kariuki also wrote that the term Mau Mau was adopted by the rebellion in order to counter what they regarded as colonial propaganda.
It has also been argued that Mau Mau was not explicitly national, either intellectually or operationally ;
His marriage of Colonial Chief's daughters, his post independence Kikuyu allies mainly being former colonial collaborators ( though also from his tribe ), and his short shrift treatment of former Mau Mau fighters after he came to power, all strongly suggest he had scant regard for the Mau Mau.
There was also an American Samoa Mau that took place in Tutuila in American Samoa in the 1920s.
Generally, numerical effects can be stacked and passed along, as with the above mentioned variation regarding sevens in Mau Mau, though this rule also applies to eights, with the number of turns missed by the next player increasing by one for each eight played in succession.
Korris was also designated a Massive Change Visionary in Bruce Mau ’ s Massive Change exhibit in October 2004, which premiered at the Vancouver Art Gallery and travelled most recently to the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
The island is also the location of regular Mau rākau training camps in the Maori martial art of taiaha.
The U Minh biosphere reserve and Mũi Cà Mau, the southernmost point of Vietnam, serve also as important tourism destinations.
The provincial capital, also named Cà Mau, is a separate municipality.
He also helped in soliciting money, boots and housing for Mau Mau.

Mau and bitter
Ugandans deeply feared the prospect of an East African federation dominated by the racist settlers of Kenya, which was then in the midst of the bitter Mau Mau uprising.

Mau and struggle
The psychological war became of critical importance to military and civilian leaders, who waged it in the time-honoured colonial fashion of divide and rule, always trying to " emphasise that there was in effect a civil war, and that the struggle was not black versus white ", attempting to isolate Mau Mau from the Kikuyu, and the Kikuyu from the rest of the colony's population and the world outside.

Mau and among
There continues to be vigorous debate within Kenyan society and among the academic community within and without Kenya regarding the nature of Mau Mau and its aims, as well as the response to and effects of the uprising.
Another interpretation among the Rastafari is that " dread " refers to the fear that dreadlocked Mau Mau warriors inspired among the colonial British.
The groundswell of support among Samoans for the Mau came from the leadership of Samoan matai, the heads of families in Samoa's traditional socio-political structure.
Muindi wa Mbingu A brave leader among the Kamba who led the Mau Mau revolution in Ukambani

Mau and Kikuyu
Because of the crimes perpetrated by Mau Mau and because the Kikuyu have made themselves Mau Mau.
Kenya, the Kikuyu and Mau Mau.
* March 25 – 26 – Lari Massacre in Kenya: Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives.
It involved a Kikuyu-dominated anti-colonial group called Mau Mau and elements of the British Army, auxiliaries and anti-Mau Mau Kikuyu.
Some publications, such as Fred Majdalany's State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau, claim that it was an anagram of Uma Uma ( which means " get out get out ") and was a military codeword based on a secret language-game Kikuyu boys used to play at the time of their circumcision.
Mau Mau was " perverted tribalism " that sought to take the Kikuyu people back to " the bad old days " before British rule.
In driving a wedge between Mau Mau and the Kikuyu generally, these propaganda efforts essentially played no role, though they could apparently claim an important contribution to the isolation of Mau Mau from the non-Kikuyu sections of the population.

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