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9780143010067
Tohunga Whakairo : Paki Harrison - The Story of a Master Carver
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Ranginui Walker
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Paki Harrison is widely regarded as New Zealand's greatest living master carver, a man with a huge reputation as a leading tohunga of the art form. He possesses immense knowledge about the traditional arts of the carver, extending way beyond the actual physical arts to include its most ancient aspects - the symbolism contained in Maori art, to its role in transmitting old tribal history. Few know more about the symbolism of the waka taua (war canoe), whare whakairo (carved meeting houses) and kowhaiwhai patterns. This major biography by Ranginui Walker, himself a well-known public figure, traces Paki Harrison's life and work, from his privileged upbringing in the Ngati Porou household of his grandmother, where he was singled out for special training. The carving and building of several big meeting houses is described in detail, from the inside.
First published November 2008.
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9780473150600
Ancient Wisdom: Modern Solutions
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Ngahini O Te Ra Bidois
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The very intimate account of the life of Patrick Bidois recording the highs and lows as he 'joined the ranks of the unemployed to relearn the language he'd once spurned... reconnected with his Maori heritage... and finally made the life-changing decision to receive the gift of ta moo from his ancestors".
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9780864732941
Apirana Turupa Ngata
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Apirana Ngata
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This book is written in Maori.
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9781877283819
Awatere: A Soldiers Story
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Hinemoa Awatere
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Here is a story of Shakespearian dimensions: Arapeta Awatere was a humble man born in 1910 at Tuupaaroa on New Zealand's East Coast; in World War Two he served his country with distinction in fierce fighting, rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and led the 28th (Maaori)Battalion. Post-war he became a distinguished community leader, an acknowledged authority on tikanga Maaori; he was a founding member of Outward Bound and an Auckland city councillor, and so the list goes on. He was a poet, a musician, a composer, an orator and a genealogist.
In 1969, at the age of fifty-nine, his life shattered. He was convicted of a crime of passion - the murder of his mistress's lover - and he ended his years in prison.
This book is part of his legacy: the passion, insight and pain left by an indomitable spirit and strong intellect whose life's work nearly foundered in one night.
Awatere: A Soldier's Story
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9780473131159
He Iti, He Taonga - Taranaki Women Speak
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Kerensa Johnston (editor)
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He Iti, He Taonga records the stories of ten Taranaki Maori women. Although the women differ in age, background and experiences, the common themes of family, community, land and the environment weave their stories together. This book contains a treasure of collective knowledge and wisdom which has been generously shared and recorded in the women’s own words.
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9780908990764
Hone Heke : Nga Puhi warrior
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Paul Moon
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Dop 2001
Biography of Nga Puhi: warrior chief in the unsettled 1840's.A captivating account of the life of Hone Heke, first to sign the Treaty of Waitangi, then feller of the flagpole who at one stage seemed to hold the future of the young colony in his hand.
First published 2001.
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9780143019893
Mata Toa : The Life and Times of Ranginui Walker
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Paul Spoonley
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Academic, author, biographer, historian, commentator, controversialist, activist, iwi consultant, mover and shaker - Dr Ranginui Walker has been in the headlines for decades, ever since the beginnings of the Maori political and cultural renaissance in the 1970s.
Walker is one of the few Maori leaders to take on the responsibility of crossing the cultural/racial divide and making the Maori world intelligible to Pakeha readers. Articulate and forthright, he has had a major influence on how Pakeha view Maori in the twenty-first century. It is a task he has deliberately accepted, and it has often made him a controversial figure (although only on the Pakeha side - to most Maori he remains highly respected, and he remains heavily involved in many Maori organisations). His many books include the bestselling
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou, Struggle Without End
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He Tipua
, his highly acclaimed biography of Sir Apirana Ngata.
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9780143020073
Mihipeka: Early Years
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Mihi Edwards
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I wanted to write a story about how the Maori people lost their language, to let it be known how it really did happen.
So begins this story, in her own words, of Mihi Edwards, known to her family as Aunty Mihi. This book is her story of the early years of a Maori woman growing up in rural New Zealand.
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9780143010975
Ratana the Prophet
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Keith Newman
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Throughout history, certain individuals with a rare passion for justice and a gift of insight have been able to rally and motivate people through periods of great social change, sometimes defying all odds and being greatly misunderstood in the process. Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana was such a man, called to prominence at a pivotal time, with a message for the Maori people and for the wider world. After a profound vision he became a healer of people's physical ailments and a lifter of ancient curses; and he was also a leader in healing the 'land sickness' of the Maori, after decades of land confiscation by the Government and the Crown. As founder of the Ratana Church and the Ratana movement, he led his followers in the quest to unite all Maori under one God, and to restore the Treaty of Waitangi as the founding document of the nation, giving Maori equal rights to British citizens. Ratana - The Prophet, based on some 20 years of research, ...
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9780790009056
The Rise and Fall of Te Hemara Tauhia
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Paul Goldsmith
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Te Hemara Tauhia fell before he rose, only to fall again – each change in fortune the product of European intervention in Aotearoa. In this complete biography of the Ngati Rongo/Kawerau chief, Paul Goldsmith details Te Hemara’s life from his part in the musket wars in the 1820s through to his death in the 1880s.
Te Hemara Tauhia’s hapu Ngati Rongo/Kawerau, who were traditionally based around Waiwera, were decimated by Nga Puhi during the musket wars of the 1820s. Then in the 1850s Te Hemara Tauhia prospered in a way that would have been impossible in a pre-European context. Using the Native Land Court and native title to his advantage Te Hemara made his living selling land, eventually claiming part ownership in lands to which he had little or no connection.
Many books have related the fall of chiefs in relation to European intervention in New Zealand, yet little has been written about the success of some Maori in the context of ...
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9781877133343
Four Generations from Maoridom: the Memoirs of a South Island Kaumatua
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Cormack, Syd; Orwin, Joanna
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9780143020646
He Tipua
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Ranginui Walker
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Apirana Turupa Ngata (1874-1943) of Ng ti Porou was one of the most important and illustrious New Zealanders of the twentieth century. He was the most influential Maori leader of recent times. He was born into a world in which Maori were in a debilitated state caused by military domination and land alienation.
Maori, at the beginning of Ngata's life, were said to be a dying race. Ngata's lifelong mission was to restore the balance. Ngata had great gifts of intelligence, energy and foresight. He was the first Maori to obtain a university degree. He was a Member of Parliament from 1905 to 1943 and a hugely influential Minister of Maori Affairs from 1928 to 1934.
In this much-acclaimed first-ever full biography of Ranginui Walker describes in detail the huge impact Ngata had on the social, cultureal, economic and political landscape of New Zealand.
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9780670911882
He Tipua: the Life and Times of Sir Apirana Ngata
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Walker, Ranginui
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Apirana Turupa Ngata (1874-1950) of Ngati Porou was one of the most important and illustrious New Zealanders of the twentieth century. He was arguably the most influential Maori eader of recent times.
He was born into a world in which Maori were in a debilitated sate caused by military domination and land alienation. Maori, at the beginning of Ngata's life, were said to be a dying race. Ngata's lifelong mission was to restore the balance.
Ngata had great powers of intelligence, energy anf foresight. He was the first Maori to obtain a university degree. He was a Member of Parliament from 1905 to 1943 and a hugely influential Minister of maori Affairs from 1928 to 1934.
This book, the first-ever full biography of this major Maori leader, describes in detail the huge impact Ngata had on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of New Zealand. Scholar, author, farmer, churchman, developer of Maori farming, builder ...
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9780143018315
He Tipua: the Life & Times of Sir Apirana Ngata
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Ranginui Walker
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The biography of twentieth century Maori leader, Sir Apirana Ngata, explores the impact the Maori leader had on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of New Zealand.
Apirana Turupa Ngata (1874-1950) of Ngati Porou was one of the most important and illustrious New Zealanders of the twentieth century. He was arguably the most influential Maori eader of recent times.
He was born into a world in which Maori were in a debilitated sate caused by military domination and land alienation. Maori, at the beginning of Ngata's life, were said to be a dying race. Ngata's lifelong mission was to restore the balance.
Ngata had great powers of intelligence, energy anf foresight. He was the first Maori to obtain a university degree. He was a Member of Parliament from 1905 to 1943 and a hugely influential Minister of maori Affairs from 1928 to 1934.
This book, the first-ever full biography of this major Maori leader, ...
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9781877228223
Mihipeka: Te Karanga a Te Kuia (Mihipeka - the Call of an Elder)
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Mihipeka Edwards
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9780864736239
Te Mata: The Ethnological Portrait
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Roger Blackley
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Te Mata: The Ethnological Portrait is an important new addition to the analysis of portraiture in a New Zealand context, authored by leading colonial art historian Roger Blackley. Based on an exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington in 2008, this publication offers a fascinating reading of a unique but little-known series of Maori portrait busts, now languishing in a storeroom at Te Papa, that were created in 1908 by the itinerant Anglo-Australian sculptor Nelson Illingworth. In an essay based on intensive new research, Blackley considers the history and function of these turn-of-the-century depictions within an ethnological and art historical frame. Commissioned by Dominion Museum director Augustus Hamilton, who intended them for the portrait gallery of an unrealised National Maori Museum, Illingworth's busts were to immortalise fast-disappearing Maori 'types'. Blackley places these fascinating sculptures ...
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9781877242335
The Legacy of Guilt : A Life of Thomas Kendall (revised edition, 2005)
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Judith Binney
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Judith Binney, one of New Zealand’s leading historians, first wrote Thomas Kendall’s story 36 years ago.
Kendall was sent to New Zealand by the Church Missionary Society to civilize and convert the ‘heathens’, but was himself almost converted to the ideas of those whom he had come to save. This fascinating account of early Maori–Pakeha relations has been updated with an introduction that provides a contemporary perspective.
Thomas Kendall, a devout Evangelist, founded a mission settlement in the Bay of Islands, in 1814, where he documented the Maori language and preached his faith. However, the strains of surviving in a foreign and isolated land, combined with Kendall’s idealistic and self-torturing evangelical beliefs, led to conflict with the other settlers and an intense feeling of failure. His attempts to establish a school failed and his initial transcription of the language was discredited by a professor at Cambridge ...
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