Ngāti Kahu: Portrait of a Sovereign Nation by Margaret Mutu et al
64.99 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories
This book describes the iwi of Ngāti Kahu through the traditions and histories of each of the sixteen hapū, told by kuia and kaumātua. These include histories of poverty, deprivation and marginalisation at the hands of the Crown and loss of 95 percent of the lands of the iwi. The book examines the varie ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu: Volume Two by Helen Brown & Michael Stevens
49.99 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories | Reading Level: near fine
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngāi Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngāi Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapū and whānau in myriad ways: here ...Show more
Te Kai a te Rangatira - Leadership from the Maori World by Rawiri Tapiata (ed.); Renee Smith (ed.); Marcus Akuhata-Brown (ed.)
79.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
‘Awe-inspiring collective wisdom and a snapshot into the current state of Maori leadership’ – this extraordinary book of interviews and photographs enriches our understanding of what it means to be a leader. In 2017 a group of rangatahi came together with the kaupapa of making a contribution to their co ...Show more
Maori Tribes of New Zealand by Te Ara
34.99 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories
A guide to the main Maori tribes written especially for visitors and students, combining great photos of scenic New Zealand with maps, Maori art and history. Written by New Zealand's top Maori historians, this is a perfect compact guidebook to the tribes of New Zealand.
Horouta by Rongowhakaata Halbert
124.99 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories
Horouta is the definitive history of the descendants of the voyaging canoes that brought the first settlers from Polynesia to the lands that stretch from East Cape to northern Hawke's Bay.Assembled through painstaking historical and genealogical research over more than 70 years by Rongowhakaata Halbert ...Show more
Takitimu - A History of Ngati Kahungunu by J. H. Mitchell
84.99 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories
Takitimu is one of the great tribal histories in the New Zealand literary canon. It tells of the Ngati Kahungunu people tangata whenua of Hawkes Bay and parts of East Coast and Wairarapa from their origins in the Pacific Islands to their lineage in Aotearoa up to the twentieth century. It is divided int ...Show more
Tainui: The Story of Hoturoa and His Descendants by L.G. Kelly
87.99 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories | Reading Level: very good
'Preserves the essential wisdom of an ancient culture and the identity of a modern people.' The traditions and history of the people of the Waikato from the Tainui canoe to the King Movement. Contains many genealogical tables. First published by the Polynesian Society in 1949. This is a facsimile reprin ...Show more
Nga Iwi o Tainui: The Traditional History of the Tainui People / Nga Koorero Tuku Iho o Nga Tuupuna by Jones Pei Te Hurinui
69.99 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories
A paperback edition of the landmark, bi-lingual, book of the histories, genealogies, songs and chants of the Tainui people, descended from the occupants of the Tainui canoe, who arrived at and settled the area around Kaawhia harbour about 1300AD.
Prophetic Histories: The People of the Maramatanga by Karen Sinclair (Professor of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, USA)
80.00 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories
Compiling 25 years of field work, this guide examines diaries, songs, pilgrimages, and life histories of the Maori. Issues included are: written and unwritten histories; colonialism; and gender. It examines what New Zealand scholars have grown to understand: there is no monolithic Maori voice.
My Dear Bannie by M. V. Mueller
52.17 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories
Gerhard Mueller surveyed the West Coast during the gold rush and his letters to his wife in Invercargill written between 1865 and 1866 provide a glimpse into the isolation of the West Coast and the chaos of frontier society.
Te Pito O Toku Ao: a Ngapuhi Narrative Ko Tautoro by Sadler Hone
59.99 NZD
Category: Iwi, Hapū and Whānau Histories
Ngapuhi is the largest iwi in New Zealand, and its people have occupied the northern North Island, from Tamaki in the south to Te Rerenga Wairua in the north, from the time of their arrival from Hawaiki. Ko Tautoro, Te Pito o Toku Ao is Ngapuhi elder Hone Sadler's powerful account of the origins, histor ...Show more
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