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9781869535933
Nga Tama Toa : The Price of Citizenship - C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945 order quantity
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NZ$ 70.00 each
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Author: Monty Soutar
In Stock: 8
Breaks new ground in telling the fascinating story of the Maori Battalion's war, with the focus firmly on C Company whose members were drawn from Tairawhiti, a region on the east coast of the North Island. Personal recollections and eyewitness accounts, many anecdotes and hundreds of photographs are woven through this history, from the inception of C Company in 1939 to the return of it's last members in 1946.

First published October 2008.
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9780143008422
Best of Both Worlds : The: Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau order quantity
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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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9780790010625
Meeting-Houses of the Ngati Porou o te tai Rawhiti : An illustrated guide order quantity
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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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9781869401313
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NZ$ 80.00 each
Author: BINNEY, Judith
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Story of a Treaty order quantity
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Author: Claudia Orange
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Treaty of Watangi simplified and explained.
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9780790008400
Te Arawa: a History of the Arawa People order quantity
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Author: Don Stafford
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9781869693992
The Parihaka Album: Lest We Forget order quantity
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Author: Rachel Buchanan
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A photo album doesn't tell the whole story of a family, and this book doesn't tell the whole story of Parihaka. Rather, it is a collection of snapshots, a patchwork quilt, a scrapbook. "The Parihaka Album: Lest We Forget" blends the personal and the historical. It tracks the author Rachel Buchanan's discovery of her family's links with Parihaka and her Maori and Pakeha ancestors' roles in the early days of the city that is now Parihaka.
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9780143010869
Ask That Mountain: The story of Parihaka (new ed.) order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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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 ... more
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9780958220132
Bravo, Neu Zeeland: Two Maori in Vienna 1859-1860 order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Helen M. Hogan
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Wanting to know what it was like for Mäori as Päkehä settlers arrived in New Zealand in the nineteenth century, sparked Helen Hogan’s interest in Mäori language manuscripts. The Mäori language scholar studied accounts of 14 Mäori journeys for her PhD thesis, which was completed when she was 72.

One of the manuscripts was a journal written by Hemara Te Rerehau, who together with his Tainui kinsman, Wiremu Toetoe sailed to Europe in 1859 on the Austrian frigate Novara. The journal, which records Te Rerehau’s impressions of nine months in Vienna, forms the central part of Hogan’s 2003 book Bravo, Neu Zeeland-Two Mäori in Vienna 1859-1860 (published by Clerestory Press in Christchurch).

While in Vienna, Te Rerehau and Toetoe met the Emperor Franz Josef and learned printing and engraving in the Imperial Printery. They also met Queen Victoria and were responsible for the gifting and transport of the printing press for the King ... more
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9781877372261
Colonial Discourses : Niupepa Maori 1855 - 1963 order quantity
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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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9781877133671
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples order quantity
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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 ... more

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9781877385001
Fishing Methods & Devices of the Maori order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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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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9780582858831
He Hokinga Mahara order quantity
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NZ$ 48.00 each
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Author: Potatau
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9781869403591
He Pitopito Korero no te Perehi Maori : Readings from the Maori-language press order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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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 ... more
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9781869691011
Hikoi : Forty Years of Maori Protest order quantity
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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) order quantity
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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) order quantity
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NZ$ 75.00 each
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Author: D. M. Stafford
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9780854671243
Manu Maori : Bird Legends and Customs order quantity
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NZ$ 38.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author: Murdoch Riley
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A book about Maori and their legends and customs involving birds - includes CD "Forest and Ocean" by Hirini Melbourne.

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9780864736116
Maori and the State : Crown-Maori relations in New Zealand Aotearoa 1950-2000 order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author: Richard S. Hill
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This book examines the principal interrelationships between the Crown and Maori through the 1950s and 60s, when Crown assimilationist policies intensified, and in the period from the 1970s, when the pressure of the ‘Maori Renaissance’ encouraged policies and goals based upon biculturalism (although Crown motivations were and remain problematic).

DoP October 2009, Wellington
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9780143010883
Maori : A photographic and social history order quantity
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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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