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Eruera Stirling was an elder of the Whanau-a-Apanui tribe, who lived in Auckland. This outstanding autobiography arises from his determination to pass on the traditional knowledge entrusted to him in his childhood by tribal elders, and from his wish to explain to a younger generation the deeper...

This work comprises th life history of eight Maori women. They have all been brought up in small rural communities - communities associated with the Riangatu faith, a distinct Maori religious movement founded in the late-19th century by the visionary leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. It is the...

The life story and career of world famous opera singer, Kiri Te Kanawa.

Horouta is a history of the descendants of the Horouta canoe, who peopled the lands from East Cape to Northern Hawke's Bay. As the first complete tribal history of the area, this book is of immense significance to students of Maori history and society and to Maori people in the region, including New...

In 1902 two Ngati Porou men (Henare Kohere and Terei Ngatai) were among 32 Maori soldiers sent to London for the coronation of Edward VII. They wrote about their travel experiences (they went as far as Homburg in Germany), and their observations of a completely different world to their own. Their...

In the late nineteenth century, the leading tohunga Pita Kapiti, at Waiapu on the East Coast, dictated an account of the rituals surrounding the cultivation of kumara and hue (gourds) and the hunting of kiore (rats), kereru (pigeons) and kaka. He also recorded many karakia and accounts of ritual...

The life story of the reknowned Maori leader, M.P., scholar and promoter of Maoritanga.

Sir Apirana Ngata (1874-1950), Member of Parliament for nearly forty years and a cabinet minister, and Sir Peter Buck (1877-1951), a medical practitioner and politician turned anthropoligist, wrote to each other faithfully for a quarter of a century. Through their eloquent correspondence emerges not...

Revised edition of: Taura tangata : te Whakapapa o nga kiore o Ohinewaiapu ; the Goldsmith/Collier genealogy.

A biography of Maori leader, Sir Apirana Ngata. It describes in detail the huge impact Ngata had on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of New Zealand and how he created a new path of reconciliation between Maori and Pakeha and helped build an enduring Maori recovery.