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Article: Interracial marriages and colonial regimes in Victoria and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
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- Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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In 1895 in the Rotorua district of the British colony of New Zealand, Jane Foley, a Maori woman, moved to the fore in her local branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). As secretary she became noted for speaking at meetings, organizing other local events, and writing reports in both Maori and English for the WCTU'S monthly paper, the White Ribbon. (1) Jane Foley, also known by her Maori name, Heni Pore, was one of a number of women of mixed Maori and European descent who were prominent in the WCTU, the most influential women's organization in the colony. That same year in the country town of Bairnsdale in the British colony of Victoria, an Aboriginal woman ...