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Eruera : the teachings of a Maori elder
Stirling, Eruera
Paper Book
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...
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Nga Morehu - The Survivors: The Life Story of Eight Maori Women
Binney, Judith
Paper Book
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...
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Ancient tide-lore and tales of the sea, from the two ends of the world : also some highly curious ancient and legendary little-known East Coast Maori stories
Colenso, W.
Paper Book
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Nga Korero a Pita Kapiti: The Teachings of Pita Kapiti
Reedy, Anaru
Paper Book
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...
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Na to Hoa Aroha: from Your Dear Friend: The Correspondence Between Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1925-50 Volume 1: 1925-29
Sorrenson, M. P. K.
Paper Book
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...
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Amiria : the life story of a Maori woman
Stirling, Amiria Manutahi.
Paper Book
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...
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The Ancient History of the Maori, his Mythology and Traditions. Volume 6, Tai-nui
White, John
Ebook
First published between 1887 and 1890, this multi-volume chronicle of Maori history and culture was one of the first books to record the oral narratives of the indigenous people of New Zealand. The project were commissioned by the New Zealand government in 1879 when it was observed that, due to the...
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