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Blending academic history and cultural insight, this bilingual compilation charts the genealogies, songs, and stories of the Polynesian/Maori Tainui people. More than 60 stories and 50 genealogical tables convey the astounding depth and color of the native people of New Zealand in this...

Whatiwhatihoe investigates a complex bundle of issues often referred to simply as a tribal "resource claim" but that really concern factors spanning the total social, political, and economic spectrum. Whatiwhatihoe tracks the origins and history of the Waikato raupatu claim, focusing...

This trail-blazing book rewrites our understanding of the wars between Maori and Pakeha, and of colonial warfare in general. It is the inspiration for the five-part television documentary series of the same name which is written and presented by James Belich.

Gives a first hand account of Maori life and Pakeha settlement on the Hauraki and the Waitemata in 1840-41.

Contains a detailed account of the operations of both Imperial and Colonial forces in the Waikato campaign of 1863-4, from Koheroa to the Gate Pa and Te Ranga.

Since the mid-1800's Te Kingitanga has been a force in New Zealand society. The Maori King movement combines spiritual and political elements which conserve the "turangawaewae" (standpoints) of the past with practical leadership in the contemporary Maori world. This collection of 14...

Text celebrating the 35 year reign from 1966 to 2001 of Te Arikinui, Te Kuini, Te Atairangikaahu, the first woman to hold the Maori Kingship. Text is well supplemented with black and white and colour photographs.

These handsome books relate the historical and geographical record of the Tanui tribal confederation. Tradition tells that Tanui migrated from Hawaiiki and their landfall was at Kawhia in Aotearoa in the fouteenth century. With territorial expansion Tanui lands expanded to encompass the North Island...

A biography of Wiremu Tamihana highlighting the important role that he played in Maori and New Zealand history during the 1850s and 1860s.

Hauraki Landmarks is a major publication that represents many years of scholarly and field research by the late Taimoana Turoa. Following in the tradition of Don Stafford's Landmarks of Te Arawa, this book is a history both of the Maori peoples and of important places in the Hauraki region. After...

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...

"Outline of events in the life of the Ngatihaua chief Te Waharoa with emphasis on the missionary period. In three parts, the first, tribal conflicts to the early 1830s in Thames and the Bay of Plenty, the visit in 1828 of Hy. Williams, Hamlin and Davis; Part II, the establishment of the C.M.S. at...