Word: maoris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Price of Citizenship." But the Maoris did not die out. Today they are a healthy, thriving people. They are among the leaders of many professions. Racial discrimination in New Zealand is un known, and intermarriage of whites and Maoris is common. Through World War II the Maori Battalion fought in Montgomery's Eighth Army, paying heavily in casualties for what they called proudly "the price of citizenship." Recently, when color-conscious South Africa refused to accept Maoris in a team of touring New Zealand footballers, white New Zealanders were bitterly affronted...
This profound change of white attitude toward the Maoris and their own reinvigoration are due in a large measure to one man-a Maori. Apirana Turupa Ngata was born in a native village, went to a native school, later took degrees at the University of New Zealand. One of the first Maori lawyers, at the turn of the century he was demanding improved housing, sanitation and medicine for the Maoris.' He carried his fight into the New Zealand House of Representatives, to which he was elected...
...touched the white man's conscience, and became Minister of Native Affairs in one government after another. He taught Maoris how to farm their lands economically. It was an uphill fight. Even in 1938 Maori child mortality was four times that of the whites. But the white man had begun to understand and respect the Maoris...
Three months later, she was slogging her way alone through the New Zealand jungle. The swirling rivers had to be forded, the roads were often impassable, the fierce Maori tribes were fighting a series of bitter wars. Unscathed through it all moved Suzanne-preaching the Gospel in the Maori tongue, setting up dispensaries that grew into hospitals, organizing teaching centers that eventually became schools...