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Book Koroki  My King

Download or read book Koroki My King written by Carmen Kirkwood and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of memories of King Koroki, the fifth Māori king. These memoirs have been offered by the people of Waikato"--Introd.

Book Driftwood

    Book Details:
  • Author : ROBERT TAYLOR QSM
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2012-11
  • ISBN : 1479737127
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Driftwood written by ROBERT TAYLOR QSM and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driftwood is a poetic look at the world, covering the span of a lifetime from birth in war torn London to retirement on a small island in Moreton Bay, on Queensland's east coast and the influences of nature upon its author. Robert has enjoyed an interesting broadcasting career in Australia and New Zealand but all through it, he\has been followed by poetry that both stimulates and exhilarates. "Driftwood-Another Voice" is about whispers we all hear in our minds, that urge us to do and see things in a different light. It is about being able to listen to your positive voice' and value it because, like driftwood, it can be washed up on a beach one day and gone on the next high tide. Like driftwood, Robert's poems take us to places around the world and we end up on some unusual beaches. We dance with sparkling streams and even meet some of his unusual spectres but always there are the trees and birds, beaches and mountains. Driftwood is a unique book for people who have a passion for the natural world. Driftwood-The Other Voice, reveals something within all of us, if only we can learn to listen.

Book State Authority  Indigenous Autonomy

Download or read book State Authority Indigenous Autonomy written by Richard S. Hill and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the relations between the Maori and the Fuling New Zealand government, this text provides an overview of the Maori quest for autonomy in the first half of the 20th century and the government's responses to those requests.

Book Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Historical Dictionary of New Zealand

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of New Zealand written by Janine Hayward and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse elements have created New Zealand’s distinctive political and social culture. First is New Zealand’s journey as a colony, and the various impacts this had on settler and Maori society. The second theme is the quest for what one prominent historian has labelled ‘national obsessions’ – equality and security, both individual and collective. The third, and more recent, theme is New Zealand’s emergence as a nation with a unique identity. New Zealand’s small geographic size and relative isolation from other societies, the dominant influence of British culture, the resurgence of Maori language and culture, the endemic instability of an economy based on a narrow range of pastoral products, and the dominance of the state in the lives of its people, all help to explain much of the present-day New Zealand psyche. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of New Zealand contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New Zealand.

Book Parliamentary Debates

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Te Arikinui and the Millennium of Waikato

Download or read book Te Arikinui and the Millennium of Waikato written by Carmen Kirkwood and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--Publisher's description.

Book A Fence Around the Cuckoo

Download or read book A Fence Around the Cuckoo written by Ruth Park and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of autobiography by celebrated writer Ruth Park, author of The Harp in the South, and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Age Book of the Year and the Colin Roderick Award.

Book Te Puea  A Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael King
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2013-08-01
  • ISBN : 1742539688
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book Te Puea A Life written by Michael King and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Te Puea Herangi, whom Professor John Pocock identified as 'possibly the most influential woman in our political history', wanted an honest biography of her turbulent life. 'I want the truth told and nothing but the truth,' she told a Pakeha journalist. Michael King has written such a book. He did so with the full support of Te Puea's tribe, Tainui, and of her surviving family and protégés. When this book first appeared in 1977 it was hailed as the best book written by or about a New Zealander. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature said it was so far an advance on anything published previously that it was without precedent. It remains so.

Book Ratana Revisited

Download or read book Ratana Revisited written by Keith Newman and published by Raupo. This book was released on 2006 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between two world wars the prophet, healer and political visionary T.W. Ratana rose from obscuirty to take on the mantle of the Maori prophetic and unity movements and rally the broken spirits of a once proud people. From the time of his 'divine' visitation in 1918, T.W. Ratana and his growing band of followers tirelessly worked to unite all Maori under one God and to restore the Treaty of Waitangi to its rightful placa as the founding document of the nation ..."--Publisher's desciption.

Book The Journal of the Polynesian Society

Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Book Paradise Reforged

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Belich
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2002-02-28
  • ISBN : 9780824825423
  • Pages : 614 pages

Download or read book Paradise Reforged written by James Belich and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise Reforged picks up where Making Peoples left off, taking the story of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the end of the twentieth century. It begins with the search for "Better Britain" and ends by analyzing the modern Maori resurgence, the new Pakeha consciousness, and the implications of a reinterpreted past for New Zealand's future. Along the way the book deals with subjects ranging from sport and sex to childhood and popular culture. Critics hailed Making Peoples as "brilliant" and "the most ambitious book yet written on [New Zealand's] past." Paradise Reforged, its successor, adopts a similarly incisive, original sweep across the New Zealand historical landscape in confronting the myths of the past. That some of its themes are uncomfortably close to the present makes the result all the more fascinating.

Book Being Pakeha Now

Download or read book Being Pakeha Now written by Michael King and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, Michael King's Being Pakeha became a gentle Kiwi classic, a strong reply both to Maori who were asserting their own identity and also to Pakeha who mumbled that they didn t have a strong culture and identity of their own. Being Pakeha Now is an updated edition that reflects on these issues and how they have changed and evolved over the last fifteen years. The theme of Being Pakeha is that white New Zealanders do indeed belong to a strong culture, which is called 'Pakeha' and which is different, strong and definable and worth celebrating. In this revised edition King rewrites the Introduction and updates many of the chapters. In addition, he offers two new chapters, one on his experiences with Moriori and the Chathams and the other on his involvement in the NZ literary community.

Book A Fish In the Swim of the World

Download or read book A Fish In the Swim of the World written by Ben Brown and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afffecting, evocative memoir by one of New Zealand's finest Maori writers. ‘This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories—distorted by time and distance and a writer’s choice of words...’ In the debut memoir that kickstarted a writing career that has spawned 17 books, including many award-winners, Ben Brown writes of a quintessentially New Zealand way of living that may not change the world or even ripple its waters, but is replete with meaning. Gathered from the tobacco-green valleys of the Motueka River where he grew up during the 1960s and 1970s, Brown’s memoir is rich with a sense of place, of family. The strands of his parents’ lives reach from Outback Australia and the hardship years of the Great Depression and World War II, to the Waikato heart of the Kingitanga and a re-emergent people, to a time and place where ‘tobacco was king’ and a small farm by a river was the sum of all ambition. Each story, each portrait, resonates with the dignity, warmth and understated humour of a fine new poetic voice.

Book Race to the Sea

Download or read book Race to the Sea written by Dr. Dayton Lee Alverson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Alverson's story covers his early life experiences, through high school, World War II, his education and his involvement in State, Federal and International fisheries science and management. His career and story cover the period (1950-2000) during which world fisheries would explode from small boat coastal activities to distant water fleets of large vessels. World catches would increase over 300% after WWII and most of the worlds oceans and seas would be heavily exploited. Overfishing and impacts on coastal fisheries would lead the world community to seek new laws for the harvest of ocean fisheries and result in unilateral extension of national jurisdictions over ocean space. The growth of environmental movement in the later half of the 20th century would lead to conflicts between fishing and conservation groups resulting in changes in national and international fish policies. The book tracks many of these developments and DR Alverson's personal involvements and experiences during the traumatic period of world fishery expansion. During the course of his life marine fisheries resource would be seen as the great source of world protein to feed the worlds hungry and later as overfished and polluted.

Book Collaborative Programs in Indigenous Communities

Download or read book Collaborative Programs in Indigenous Communities written by Barbara Harrison and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an important reference for developing collaborative programs between indigenous groups and outside experts. The author outlines the process of program design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation for formal or pilot programs. The case study materials provide useful detail for developing projects in education, economic development, social services, and health.

Book Parliamentary Debates

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: