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 life history of eight Maori women is the first book in which different Maori women speak in their own words about the changing circumstances of their lives. All were brought up in small rural communities in the eastern part of the North Island of New Zealand--communities associated with 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.

Amiria was born on the East Coast nearly one hundred years ago. The story begins with her birth at Tuparoa, a childhood spent in both her grandmothers' raupo hut and the magnificient Williams homestead, Kaharau. It leads the reader through Amirias school days, her taumau or arranged marriage to...

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.

First published between 1887 and 1890, this six-volume work, containing Maori texts with English translations and commentary, and engraved illustrations, was one of the first printed records of the oral traditions of the Maori. The project was commissioned by the New Zealand government in 1879 when...