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Originally Posted by harakiri
my first idea was that she was the first woman who sliced a kiwi (the bird), but thats silly ....
was she the first white woman to marry a maori? This was probably shocking in the 19th century, but a crime? Don't know ....
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Good guesses! But no.
Kiwis are protected now, but I'm not sure that they were in Minnie's time (edited to add: kiwi gained protection in 1896, which is just after Minnie's time). And interracial marriages have never been a crime in New Zealand.