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The Oxford Dictionary of English (2011) defines 'Pakeha' as 'a white New Zealander'. [8] The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms (2010) defines the noun Pākehā as 'a light-skinned non-Polynesian New Zealander, especially one of British birth or ancestry as distinct from a Māori; a European or white person'; and the adjective as 'of or relating to Pākehā; non-Māori; European, white'.
Pākehā Māori or Pakeha Maori were early European settlers (known as Pākehā in the Māori language) who lived among the Māori in New Zealand. History [ edit ]
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"Puha and Pakeha" is a 1960s New Zealand novelty song, written and performed by Rod Derrett. Darkly humorous in nature, it is about Māori people in early New Zealand preparing 'boil-up' meals of pūhā (a leafy vegetable that grows in the wild) and Pākehā (New Zealanders of European descent).
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Pakeha Maori: The extraordinary story of the Europeans who lived as Maori in early New Zealand by Trevor Bentley; published 1999 ISBN 0-14-028540-7 pp. 132–33. Maning, Frederick Edward, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography; 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica; PDF copy of Maning's two books; Frederick Edward Maning at the New Zealand Electronic Text ...