Maori Peoples of New Zealand by Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
49.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
The first publication to come out of the online Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand project tells the story of the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa, from their journeys across the vast Pacific Ocean to the histories of all the major iwi, including the contemporary issues they face today. No other book brings t ...Show more
Maori Tales of Long Ago by A. W. Reed
34.99 NZD
Category: Maori History
Maori Tales of Long Ago is a fresh facsimile edition of a classic collection of sixteen stories adapted from Maori mythology for a young readership. The tales were originally published by A.W. & A.H. Reed during the late 1940s in two hardback volumes, Maori Tales of Long Ago and Wonder Tales of Maor ...Show more
The First Migration : Māori Origins 3000BC – AD1450 (BWB Texts) by Atholl Anderson
14.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: good
Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson's ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand's first human inhabitants. Taken fro ...Show more
Beneath the Southern cross by Graeme Sturgeon
32.50 NZD
37.00 (12% off)
Category: Maori History
Dop October 2008, Auckland 456pp softcover fiction A novel set in pre-Treaty New Zealand. Sturgeon uses his first-hand experience of sea, bush and mountains as he explores the strange and often savage world of the Pakeha Maori in the early days of European settlement.
Favourite Maori Legends by A.W. Reed; Ross Calman
29.99 NZD
Category: Maori History
Maori myths and legends have an important role in transmitting and regenerating traditional knowledge. Yet as Ross Calman points out in his introduction to this new edition, they are also simply great yarns - reflective of a time when telling and listening to stories was a key leisure activity in Maori ...Show more
Song of Waitaha - The Histories of a Nation by Iharaira Te Meihana & Wiremu Ruka Te Korako et al
57.50 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Song of Waitaha repairs the torn fabric of our past and opens doors into the future. The Histories tell of a society where many peoples walked in harmony with each other. It shows how they honoured the land and waters to sustain life - harvesting birds and fish to increase the numbers, cutting tall tree ...Show more
Bunty Preece Soldier of the 28 (Maori) Battalion by Tom O’Connor
70.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
This then is the story of Alfred (Bunty) Preece of the Chatham Islands, soldier, farmer, local body politician, kaumatua and tireless advocate for his people. His recollections of the Italian Campaign of World War Two and the effect of those two and a half years were but the beginning of a lifetime of d ...Show more
Te Whiti o Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka by Danny Keenan
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
This is an account of the life and times of Te Whiti o Rongomai set against the politics and Crown policies of the nineteenth century. It traces the forces that shaped his life's journey from Ngamotu, where he was born, to his settling at Parihaka and his evolving sense of the injustices and disempowerm ...Show more
Stories on the Four Winds: Nga hau e Wha by Brian Bargh; Robyn Bargh
35.00 NZD
Category: Maori History | Series: 1st
This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.
Whakapapa of Tradition by Ellis Ngarino
69.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: near fine
From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngati Porou carving and a profound ...Show more
Entanglements of Empire by Tony Ballantyne
39.99 NZD
Category: Maori History
Description: The first Protestant mission to New Zealand, established in 1814, saw the beginning of complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Entanglements of Empire is a deft reconstruction of the cross-cultural translations of this early period. Misunderstanding was rife, an ...Show more
New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by Belich James
39.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of Maori, and the inability of 'Victorian interpretation' to acknowledge those qualities, Belich's account of the New Zealand Wars offered a very different picture from the one previously given in historical works. Maori, in Belich's view, won the North ...Show more