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How to use Pakeha in a sentence

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She understands both Maori and Pakeha ways of relating to each other and of doing business.
From the beginning Pakeha New Zealanders have struggled to establish and define a national identity for themselves.
While Rawiri Waiaua, chief of the Hua division of the Puketapu hapu was happy to sell land to the Pakeha, chief Katatore was not.
This feat put Jane Maria in the history books as the first Pakeha woman to reach the summit of the mountain.
He has suggested that he would hire a Pakeha over a Maori of equal merit because, he said, Maori could claim unlimited tangi leave.
Does privilege mean that we Maori dominate certain illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, asthma, glue ear, and others, and that we die 10 years earlier than Pakeha?
Explanations given to Maori at the time of signing emphasised the role of this kawanatanga in curbing the excesses of Pakeha settlers and protecting Maori.
Paritutu was first discovered by Pakeha in 1770 when Captain Cook sailed down the coast and named the islands after the lumps of sugar he put in his tea.
It was the first tangi for a Pakeha ever held on the Kaiaua Marae.
On average, Maori life expectancy is 10 years less than that of Pakeha.
In the contemporary talk of Pakeha the idea of Maori as a national group is unpolitic and raises difficult questions about Maori sovereignty and the status of Pakeha.
Many more canoes journeyed from Hawaiki, bringing the people who settled the land and who lived there for many hundreds of years before the arrival of the Pakeha.
Witi Ihimaera and Bruce Stewart provide a contrasting view of the male hero, since they write of Maori society as opposed to Pakeha society.
Even titi, a familiar word to a large number of Pakeha Southlanders, was not used within the text.
Mrs Hartley, who is originally from Sunderland, is currently Dean of Tikanga Pakeha students at St John's College in Auckland, New Zealand.
A Health Ministry report in 2010 showed bowel-cancer rates were highest for Pakeha and Maori men but lower for Asians and Pacific Islanders.
The latest New Zealand Census-Mortality Study shows that Maori die younger than pakeha, even after controlling for socioeconomic status.
I am still in a dilemma of how, as a pakeha, to present this relationship and history.
After all, the ferocious equalitarianism of the old public sector would never have let people be paid more simply because they were pakeha.
Haast named the pass after himself and claimed to be the first pakeha to have travelled through it, but the discovery of Cameron's flask discredited this claim.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The pakeha was drowning the Maori for Utu for himself, in case he should be drowned.
He says his pakeha was to have brought plenty of guns and powder, and he has not brought any.
But now, because of the advent of the pakeha, power had melted in his hand like snow.
The pakeha, changing his position so that Rup could see him, explained his predicament.
The martial instincts of Maori and pakeha were at once aroused.
Trench after trench was taken at the bayonet point by pakeha and Maori.
The mihonere and the kuremata have taught them the things of the pakeha.
If you become his pakeha, he will be bound to fight for you.
Down he crouched at once, and stealthily stalked the pakeha.
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