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9780143006497
Opotiki-Mai-Tawhiti : Capital of Whakatoha - The Story of Whakatohea's Struggle During the Nineteeth and Twentieth Centuries
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Author:
Ranginui Walker
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This is a tribal history of Maori scholar Ranginui Walker's own iwi, Whakatohea of Opotiki, with the emphasis on the epic events of the nineteenth century and the tribe's subsequent struggle for social justice.
First published May 2007.
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9780143010869
Ask That Mountain: The story of Parihaka (new ed.)
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Author:
Dick Scott
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Dop 2008, Auckland
216pp
9th edition (1st edition by Raupo publishers)
Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand's colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha settlers in a struggle that swapped the weapons of war for the weapons of peace. Taking as their symbol the white feather, the chiefs Te Whiti and Tohu led Parihaka in one of the world's first-recorded campaigns of passive resistance.
Maori ploughmen wrote its message across the settlers' pastures, and Maori fencers underlined the point by throwing barriers across the queen's highways. Withstanding repeated military action, the spirit of resistance born at Parihaka kept alive the flame of that supposedly 'dying race', the Maori. Ask That Mountain draws on official papers, settler ...
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9780143008422
Best of Both Worlds : The: Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau
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Author:
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
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In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsden Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of Maungapohatu. The stories he gave to Best to be recorded for future generations are with us today. Best went on to become a noted Pakeha authority on a people he would style as the last of 'the oldtime Maori'. How much did the old man tell him? Was it freely given? Can Best's writings - so pervasive today in our understanding of Maori culture - be truly relied upon? In his unique examination of this historically significant relationship, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman poses such searching questions, further informing a vital national debate on the shared identity - and destiny - of Maori and Pakeha.
First published March 2010.
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9781877372261
Colonial Discourses : Niupepa Maori 1855 - 1963
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Author:
Lachy Paterson
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First published August 2006
Contents: Introduction; The Newspapers; Literacy and Education; Language; Propaganda; Law; Civilisation; Politics; And More Politics; Conclusion
A number of Maori language newspapers were published during the nineteenth century, a time when the relationship between Maori and the Crown was still evolving. This book surveys nine such newspapers from 1855 to 1863.
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9781869694111
Contested Ground : Te Whenua I Tohea - The Taranaki Wars 1860-1881
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Author:
Kelvin Day
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The first shots were fired on Wiremu Kingi's Te Kohia pa on 17 March 1860, marking the start of twenty-one years of direct conflict between Maori and Pakeha in the Taranaki region interspersed with periods of uneasy peace, culminating in the invasion of the Parihaka settlement on 5 November 1881. In Contested Ground: Te Whenua i Tohea, Kelvin Day brings together eleven distinguished academics and historians who provide fresh and engaging insights into this turbulent period, much sourced from previously overlooked material, and a remarkable collection of photographs and illustrations. 2010 marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Taranaki Wars, and this thoughtful and informative volume helps shed new light on the people and political landscape of 19th century Taranaki and the legacy of the wars on the history of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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9781877133671
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
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Author:
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
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"No budding researcher should be allowed to leave academy without reading this book" - Bob Morgan, University of Technology, Sydney
From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research methods.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the author critically examines the historical and philosophical base of Western research. Extending the work of Foucault, she explores the intersections of imperialism, knowledge and research, and the different ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and methodologies as 'regimes of truth'. Providing a history of knowledge from the Enlightenment to ...
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9781877385001
Fishing Methods & Devices of the Maori
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Author:
Eldson Best
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Elsdon Best was New Zealand’s foremost writer on pre-European Mâori life. His books are a uniquely valuable record of traditional Mâori culture, social customs and beliefs. Without him, we would know little of the customs and traditions of these times.
Elsdon Best was a prolific recorder of pre-European Maori social life and material culture. His work established him as New Zealand's foremost ethnographer of Maori society.
Best based is research on rare first-hand knowledge, wide reading, informed study and discussion with Maori. His was a lifelong project underpinned by a belief that Maori were a people under threat of extinction, yet by the time of his death in 1931 Best's work had assumed new importance as it informed a Maori cultural renaissance.
Today, the Elsdon Best books are accepted as classic studies. They remain a uniquely valuable record of traditional Maori culture, social customs and beliefs.
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9780790007298
Hauraki Landmarks - Te Takoto O Te Whenua
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Author:
TUROA Taimoana
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Hauraki Landmarks is a major publication that represents many years of scholarly and field research by the late Taimoana Turoa. Following in the tradition of Don Stafford’s Landmarks of Te Arawa, this book is a history both of the Maori peoples and of important places in the Hauraki region. After Turoa’s untimely death in 1998, the book has been brought to completion by his nephew, Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal, director of graduate studies and research at Te Wananga-o-Raukawa.
The Hauraki tribal district encompasses the entire Coromandel Peninsula as far south as Katikati, the Hauraki Plains, the lands bordering the Hauraki Gulf (taking in the east coast of Auckland as far north as Cape Rodney) and the islands of the Gulf, including Rangitoto, Hauturu (Little Barrier) and Aotea (Great Barrier). The area is home to the Parehauraki tribes, many of which are sub-tribes of Tainui.
The first part of the book gives a concise ...
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9781869403591
He Pitopito Korero no te Perehi Maori : Readings from the Maori-language press
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Author:
Jenifer Curnow, Ngapare Hopa & Jane McRae (eds)
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Readings from the Maori Language Press
He Pitopito Korero no te Perehi Maori
is a reader of various articles and content from nineteenth-century Maori newspapers. The editors, Curnow, McRae and Hopa, released a successful book of essays on Maori-language newspapers,
Rere Atu, Taku Manu!
, in 2002, and this companion volume is sure to be popular with the same audience. For easy use and comparison, the Maori and English texts run alongside one another illustrating a fascinating range of tone, style and subject. The book contains an introduction and then six sections divided thematically: From the Editors, Letters, Articles, News, Obituaries and Advertisements. Curnow, McRae & Hopa have chosen from the wealth of material available a representative, insightful selection of Maori-language texts that are incomparably useful as a reflection of New Zealand history and Maori attitudes as well as a wonderful resource for students ...
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9781869691011
Hikoi : Forty Years of Maori Protest
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Author:
Aroha Harris
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'At least one lesson of Hïkoi 2004 is clear: rather than never repeating, history is fated to repeat, and repeat again, until its lessons are learned.'
This book provides a glimpse of the fruits of the contemporary Maori protest 'movement' - the Waitangi Tribunal and the opportunity to prepare, present and negotiate Treaty settlements; Maori language made an official language; Maori-medium education; Maori health providers; iwi radio and, in 2004, Maori television.
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9780143019459
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou : Struggle Without End (Revised ed, 2004)
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Author:
Ranginui Walker
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This is a revised edition of Dr Ranginui Walker's best-selling history of Aotearoa, New Zealand, from a Maori perspective, containing two new chapters covering the last decade and a half.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, Maori have been involved in an endless struggle for justice, equality and self-determination. In this book Dr Walker provides a uniquely Maori view, not only of the events of the past two centuries but beyond to the very origins of Maori people.
In this updated edition Dr Walker has added new chapters covering the years of 1990, the flowering of the Maori culture and the growth of Maori political and economic power. Recent issues such as the foreshore and seabed legislation, the hikoi and Don Brash’s Orewa speech are discussed.
First published 1990; this revised edition 2004.
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9780790003207
Landmarks of Te Arawa (Volume 1: Rotorua)
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Author:
D. M. Stafford
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143010883
Maori : A photographic and social history
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Author:
Michael King
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Renowned historian Michael King (1945-2004) presents a comprehensive and searching documentary of Maori culture and society, and Maori-Pakeha contact, conflict and co-operation. From the earliest daguerreotype around 1852 to the strong protest images of the 1990s, King records and analyses changes and upheaval in the commentary that is always intelligent and objective. This book leaves the reader with not only a better understanding of the past but a challenge for the future.
This edition reprinted 2008
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781846033704
Maori Fortifications
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Author:
Ian Knight
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Dop April 2009, UK
248 x 184 mm,
64pp
softcover
The Maori people of New Zealand were experienced field engineers and it was common practice to protect villages with surrounding entrenchments and wooden palisades, known as pas. However, it was not until 1845, with the first fighting between the Maori and the British, that it became clear just how strong and sophisticated the Maori fortifications were. For the best part of 20 years, the Maori held off the dominant and technologically superior British forces, by adapting and developing their defences in response to new British assaults. This book explores the evolution and design of Maori fortifications, and charts the course of a conflict that would ultimately see the British break the Maori pas, leading to a bitter guerrilla bush war.
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9780790009711
Maori History & Placenames of the Hawke's Bay
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Author:
D R Simmons
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First published in the 1970s, this book remains an authoritative account of the Maori history and place names throughout the Hawke's Bay region. With many aerial photographs and maps, this book has been re-designed and re-released after being out of print for many years.
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9781877385070
Maori Storehouses and Kindred Structures
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Elsdon Best
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Elsdon Best was a prolific recorder of pre-European Maori social life and material culture. His work established him as New Zealand's foremost ethnographer of Maori society.
Best based is research on rare first-hand knowledge, wide reading, informed study and discussion with Maori. His was a lifelong project underpinned by a belief that Maori were a people under threat of extinction, yet by the time of his death in 1931 Best's work had assumed new importance as it informed a Maori cultural renaissance.
Today, the Elsdon Best books are accepted as classic studies. They remain a uniquely valuable record of traditional Maori culture, social customs and beliefs.
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9781869537395
Maori Tribes of New Zealand
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Author:
Te Ara online encyclopedia
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Designed for the visitors market this book combines great photos of scenic New Zealand with maps, Maori art and history. Contributors include some of New Zealand's top historians.
A guide to the main Maori tribes written especially for visitors and students, combining great photos of scenic New Zealand with maps, Maori art and history. Written by New Zealand's top Maori historians, this is a perfect compact guidebook to the tribes of New Zealand.
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9780790010625
Meeting-Houses of the Ngati Porou o te tai Rawhiti : An illustrated guide
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Author:
David Simmons
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This lavishly illustrated history of the Te Tai Rawhiti area is the most complete and detailed record of former and existing meeting-houses of Ngati Porou, which covers the region from the north of Gisborne to the East Cape.
It is the result of over 30 years research by scholar David Simmons and goes beyond existing studies of ceremonial house exteriors to investigate those with little, if any, decorative features as well as those with completely carved interiors. More than 300 black and white photos of carvings held in local and international museums and private collections are examined, uncovering the rich history of master carvers, carving practices, and the communities that called these places home.
First published July 2006.
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9781877242397
Ngai Tahu : A Migration History
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Author:
Te Maire Tau & Athol Anderson (eds.)
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Te Maire Tau writes:
'I first came across the Carrington typescript in 1987 when, as an under-graduate, I was researching our tribe's history in the Alexander Turnbull Library. Reading the text, I was captured for the rest of the day. Besided the exhilaration that historians always feel on coming across an old and little known manuscript, the story that Carrington told read differently from the standard histories of Ngai Tahu written by nineteenth-century scholars. ...'
English journalist Hugh Carrington wrote a history of Ngai Tahu in the 1930s, drawing on the knowledge of Oaro elder Hariata Beaton-Morel and earlier scholars. This text has been framed and edited by Te Maire Tau and Atholl Anderson, creating a history of Ngai Tahu's migration from the Wellington region through to Rakiura. Complementary traditions, in particular those recorded by Thomas Green, are also included.
This remarkable account presents oral ...
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9781869403317
Nga Iwi O Tainui : Traditional History of the Tainui People
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Author:
Pei Te Hurinui Jones (tr Bruce Biggs)
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A paperback edition of the landmark, bi-lingual, book of the histories, genealogies, songs and chants of the Tainui people, descended from the occupants of the Tainui canoe, who arrived at and settled the area around Kaawhia harbour about 1300AD.
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