Pakehan.adj.

1817 J. L. Nicholas Narr. Voy. N.Z. I. 181 We could easily perceive..that the packahâ, or white man, was the subject of some extraordinary remarks.

1832 A. Earle Narr. Resid. N.Z. 146 The white taboo'd day, when the packeahs (or white men) put on clean clothes, and leave off work.

1854 W. Golder Pigeons' Parl. iii. 44 Aiding some vile pakehas In deeds subversive of the laws.

1873 J. H. H. St. John Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands ii. vii. 124 A lot of scoundrels, who would have thought it a good deed to tomahawk any pakeha.

1904 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 56 He had..fallen foul of many native kiangas [sic] where the pakeha was unwelcome.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Sept. 8/4 The first pakehas were not at all ethical—rough whalers and adventurers.

1959 G. Slatter Gun in my Hand xxii. 224 The Maori must smile at the pakeha going all Maori when he's overseas. People on the ship to England wearing tikis and saying good kai this morning.

1963 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 25 July Co~existence between Maoris and Pakehas had seriously affected Maori culture.

1978 Economist (Nexis) 3 June 84 Many younger Maoris are angry not only at the pakehas (whites) who control most of the land, but also at their ancestors who over the past century and a half have often willingly let it go.

1994 Listener (Auckland, N.Z.) 4 June 30/1 The paradox about Whina is that, although she was an autocrat among her own people, among Pakeha her methods verged on the servile.

2004 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 31 July What a funny Pakeha I am, I thought, to feel so at home at the sound of ‘ka mate, ka mate’.

1832 H. Williams Early Jrnls. 16 Dec. (1961) 268 [Warekaua] pleaded hard for Missionaries to live in his neighbourhood, as they would never be ora [‘satisfied’] by the Pakeha Maori.

1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. 73 We do not want the missionaries from the Bay of Islands, they are pakeha maori, or whites who have become natives.

1865 C. Hursthouse England's N.Z. War 37 Pakeha-Maoris consist, chiefly, of old Whalers and runaway Sailors, Australian Expirees, Sawyers and Pedling Traders, who have taken Native Concubines and left civilization for the bush.

1930 B. Guthrie N.Z. Memories 9 With the coming of the settler this curious existence of the ‘pakeha Maori’ vanished quickly; for it was no longer necessary to have a go-between for trade.

1959 K. Sinclair Hist. N.Z. 23 Judge F.E. Maning..in his younger days had been a ‘Pakeha Maori’ (..a white man living with and more or less as the Maoris).

1999 D. Alves Maori & Crown 11 We know this from accounts of Maori life provided by those who ‘went native’, becoming Pakeha Maori living as part of the tribe.

1834 E. Markham New Zealand (1963–5) 57 I told her it was for a Waheinee Parkiah, European Woman.

1879 Amer. Naturalist 13 73 As the Maori rat was destroyed by the Pakeha rat, so our people also will be gradually supplanted and exterminated by the Europeans.

1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War p. vi Its first result was Heke's war, which exploded the Maori theory of the invincibility of the Pakeha soldier.

1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop i. 12 He looked to his sons for the old-time implicit obedience, refusing to pander to pakeha influences on his own.

1954 Econ. Geogr. 30 79/2 Nelson apart, the pakeha population of the South Island probably totalled less than 500 as late as 1847.

1973 W. Ihimaera Tangi xx. 78 I was never hurt again because I took a firm step forward into the Pakeha world.

1985 National Educ. (N.Z.) Nov. 216 We retrace the first Maori and Pakeha contacts.

2001 Trans. Philol. Soc. 99 5 The disyllabic form is mostly associated with Pakeha speakers, who use them [sic] almost twice as much as young Maori.