Taonga Puoro - Singing Treasures: The Musical Instruments of the Maori by Brian Flintoff
39.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
And to further breathe life into this book, the technical information about each instrument is interwoven with the stories and myths that belong to each instrument. In addition, instructions are given for making and playing these singing treasures, and there is an explanation of the art forms used in Ma ...Show more
Ngāti Kahu: Portrait of a Sovereign Nation by Margaret Mutu; Lloyd Pōpata; Te Kani Williams; Ānahera Herbert-Graves; Reremoana Rēnata; JudyAnn Cooze; Zarrah Pineaha; Tania Thomas; Te Ikanui Kingi-Waiaua
65.00 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Ngāti Kahu book gives real insight into Treaty of Waitangi Claims process Many iwi have been through the Treaty of Waitangi Claims process to try and resolve past injustices, however very few have been able to document the detail of the process, provide an analysis of the policy and behaviour of the g ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu: People of Ngai Tahu, Vol 1 by Takerei Norton
39.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Series: Tāngata Ngāi | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Ngai Tahu remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapu and whanau in myriad ways: here are rangatir ...Show more
Te Ao Tawhito: The Old World 3000 BC- AD 1830: 2018 by Atholl Anderson
59.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Series: Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History
Te Ao Tawhito : The Old World contemplates Maori origins in the blue continent, the vast Pacific Ocean across which the earliest ancestors travelled to settle these southernmost Pacific islands. Here they organised into hapu and iwi, adapting tropical ways to life in a huge but temperate land, building ...Show more
Critical Conversations in Kaupapa Maori by Te Kawehau Hoskins (Editor); Alison Jones (Editor)
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
Kaupapa Māori theory and methodology developed over twenty years ago and have since become influential in social research, practice and policy areas. This collection furthers knowledge about kaupapa Māori by examining its effects over the decades, identifying and discussing its conventions and boundari ...Show more
Dancing With the King - The rise and fall of the King Country 1864-1885 by Belgrave Michael
75.00 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: near fine
After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state - a land governed by the Maor ...Show more
Goodbye Maoriland by Bourke Chris
59.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Be it `Tipperary' or `Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular ...Show more
Sleeps Standing - Moetu by Witi Ihimaera; Hemi Kelly
35.00 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Orakau. During three days in 1864, 300 Maori men, women and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end of the Land Wars in the Waikato and resulted in v ...Show more
Musket Wars by Ron Crosby
70.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
First published in 1999, with an introduction by the late Michael King, The Musket Wars established Ron Crosby's reputation as a daring, original chronicler of New Zealand history. This best-selling history provides the first comprehensive account of the wars that ravaged the country in the early 1800s, ...Show more
Tears of Rangi - Experiments Across Worlds by Salmon D Anne
65.00 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with map ...Show more
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds by Alison Jones; Kuni Jenkins
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Maori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and Europe ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi The treaty of Waitangi 1840 by Claudia Orange
29.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: near fine
Published in conjunction with the He Tohu exhibition at the National Library. Each book celebrates one of the three founding documents in New Zealand's history He Whakaputanga: The Declaration of Independence (1835), the Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840) and the Women's Suffrage Petition ( ...Show more