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Book Maori Life in Old Taranaki

Download or read book Maori Life in Old Taranaki written by John Houston and published by Raupo. This book was released on 1965 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Taranaki Maori is one of the most stubborn, one of the proudest, and most intelligent of the Maori race. - Sir Apirana Ngata, letter to John Houston 21 April 1936 The most authoritative account of Maori customary practices and history of the region, Maori Life in Old Taranaki contains more than 30 chapters of material which ranges over topics such as migratory canoe stories, the origins of place names, proverbs and sayings, karakia and waiata, Hauhauism and traditional lore as well as indepth coverage of the armed conflict that rent Taranaki asunder during the nineteenth century. .

Book Prophets of Rebellion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Adas
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 1469610027
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Prophets of Rebellion written by Michael Adas and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. The rebellions examined are: Netherlands East Indies (1825-30), New Zealand (c. 1864-67), Central India (1895-1900), German East Africa (1903-6), and Burma (1930-32). Arranged topically to emphasize comparative patterns, the study analyzes causes, leaders, organization, failure, and the impact on the individual society. Originally published in 1979. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Book Nga Waka O Nehera

Download or read book Nga Waka O Nehera written by Jeff Evans and published by Oratia Media Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the essential reference work to the traditions of Maori canoes that voyaged to New Zealand including lists of the waka, names of crew members and vessels, karakia and waiata, and maps. Jeff Evans collects the main information sources about travelling canoes into one volume. A must for lovers of history, students of Maori and nautical enthusiasts.

Book Maori Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mervyn McLean
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781869401443
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Maori Music written by Mervyn McLean and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maori music records and analyses ancient Maori musical tradition and knowledge, and explores the impact of European music on this tradition. Mervyn McLean draws on diverse written and oral sources gathered over more than 30 years of scholarship and field work that yielded some 1300 recorded songs, hundreds of pages of interviews with singers, and numerous eye-witness accounts. The work is illustrated throughout with photos and music examples.

Book Frontier Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edwin Stanley Brookes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-06-04
  • ISBN : 9780282257491
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Frontier Life written by Edwin Stanley Brookes and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Frontier Life: Taranaki, New Zealand, With Maps and SketchesPage. -a very old canoe - Fully described - Soloman's opinion - The rimu - The oldest specimen - Soloman an authority - The strata where old canoe found - The scoop or bailer used in the Tainui Custom of the natives - The tangi - A tattooed native - Missionary - A description of him - His descent given from the crew of the canoe Tainui - Poetry - The last Maori warrior.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Ng  ti Ruanui

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Sole
  • Publisher : Huia Publishers
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781869691806
  • Pages : 556 pages

Download or read book Ng ti Ruanui written by Tony Sole and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eloquent and detailed Taranki history has grown out of research for the Ngati Ruanui tribal treaty claim against the New Zealand Crown. From pre-Hawaiki times it follows the Aotea canoe from Ranigatea in the Pacific to New Zealand Aotearoa and the settlement of Turi and his people at Patea. The battles and alliances over the centuries and the rich and varied Ngati Ruanui history form the narrative background for the arrival of Pakeha from Europe and the devastation and land confiscations that followed. The story of the successful negotiation of the Ngati Ruanui treaty settlement and the creation of Te Rananga o Ngati Ruanui is told here for the first time. The central theme of this important book is the unwavering determination of the Ngati Ruanui tribe to hold on to their land and their autonomy.

Book I Shall Not Die

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  • Author : James Belich
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2015-12-23
  • ISBN : 1927131197
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book I Shall Not Die written by James Belich and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading historian James Belich presents Titokowaru, a Taranaki chief in the 1860s, as one of the great figures of New Zealand history. A leader in peace and war, he ran a stunning military campaign against colonial forces as he sought to save his people and their lands from European invasion. In a powerfully written, compelling book, Belich restores the image of a man who, after winning numerous victories and almost repelling colonial forces in 1868–69, was then ‘forgotten by Pākehā as a child forgets a nightmare’. A new introduction by Belich brings his 1989 work up to date.

Book  Hauhau

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Clark
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1775580822
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Hauhau written by Paul Clark and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most New Zealanders, the word 'Hauhau' conjures up a picture of bloodthirsty fanaticism. This book, the definitive study of the Pai Marire or 'Hauhau' M&āori movement in the 1860s, presents a different view. Pai Marire is shown as being a search for ways of meeting European settlement and domination, and of using European skills and literacy, on M&āori terms and without compromising M&āori identity. Sources include the Ua Rongopai notebook, which contains a record of the words of Te Ua Haum&ēne, the prophet of Pai Marire, himself.

Book Wars Without End

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danny Keenan
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2021-02-02
  • ISBN : 0143774948
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Wars Without End written by Danny Keenan and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Maori have struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Maori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only intensified. For both sides, land was at the heart of the conflict, one that casts a long shadow over race relations in modern-day New Zealand. Wars Without End is the first book to approach this contentious subject from a Maori point of view, focusing on the Maori resolve to maintain possession of customary lands and explaining the subtleties of an ongoing and complex conflict. Written by senior Maori historian Danny Keenan, Wars Without End eloquently and powerfully describes the Maori reasons for fighting the Land Wars, placing them in the wider context of the Maori struggle to retain their sovereign estates. The Land Wars might have been quickly forgotten by Pakeha, but for Maori these longstanding struggles are wars without end.

Book God s Messenger

Download or read book God s Messenger written by Peter H. Oettli and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God's Messenger is a new biography of the North German missionary Rev. J. F. Riemenschneider, who settled in the Taranaki region in the first half of the nineteenth century. The book places him into the historical and social context, which not only illuminates his life and work, but throws new light on aspects of nineteenth century New Zealand history. The book outlines Riemenschneider’s upbringing in North Germany, his arrival in New Zealand and setting up of a missionary station in Taranaki, rifts between the missionary and his people, his exile from Taranaki and setting up in Otago." --Publisher.

Book The Forgotten Prophet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey Sissons
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2023-10-02
  • ISBN : 1991033494
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book The Forgotten Prophet written by Jeffrey Sissons and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Te Ito’s vision was one of pan-tribal unity; he wanted to bring together all the people of Taranaki ‘from Mokau to Pātea’. Tāmati Te Ito Ngāmoke led the prophetic Kaingārara movement in Taranaki from 1856. Te Ito was revered by tribal leaders as a prophetic tohunga matakite; but others, including many settlers and officials, viewed him as an ‘imposter’, a ‘fanatic’. Despite his influence and leadership, Te Ito’s historical importance remains largely unrecognised today. By the time war broke out in 1860, Te Ito and his followers had established a school and a court system in Taranaki. Striving for the ‘fulfilment of the divine order’, the Kaingārara movement initiated the ‘Taranaki iconoclasm’, discarding tapu objects associated with atua (ancestral spirits, which often took the form of reptiles) into massive bonfires. Te Ito was a visionary adviser to Te Ātiawa chief Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke, and played a crucial role in the conflicted region, both before and after the wars of the 1860s. Initially perceived as a rival to the Parihaka leaders, Tohu Kākahi and Te Whiti o Rongomai, he eventually joined the Parihaka community. Jeffrey Sissons’s account illuminates this tumultuous chapter in Aotearoa’s history.

Book Rautahi  The Maoris of New Zealand

Download or read book Rautahi The Maoris of New Zealand written by Joan Metge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the Maori in New Zealand, this book covers Maori history and culture, language and art and includes chapters on the following: · Basic concepts in Maori culture · Land · Kinship · Education · Association · Leadership & social control · The Marae · Hui · Maori and Pakeha · Maori spelling and pronunciation There is an extensive glossary, bibliography and index. First published in 1967. This edition reprints the revised edition of 1976.

Book Te Rou

Download or read book Te Rou written by John White and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A series of set pieces based on the life of a Māori tribe in the Hokianga region. Much on love, war and cannibaliam, presented by named characters within a pattern of Victorian expression and convention, which the numerous footnotes and elaborate textual explanaions of custom humanise only in part. Intended to be the first of a series. Revenge (W1065) was the only (posthumous) sequel"--Bagnall.

Book Beyond Betrayal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Keith Newman
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2013-09-25
  • ISBN : 1742539378
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Beyond Betrayal written by Keith Newman and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Betrayal delves into New Zealand's pioneering history, and asks why such promising partnerships descended into decades of distrust. After the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, a succession of governors resisted missionary advice, despite their local knowledge and peacemaking skills, and influenced a raft of misunderstandings that provoked violent outbreaks across the country. The rise of Maori prophetic movements, and an intense desire for Maori to have a unified political voice, saw allegiances split between those supporting the government and those frustrated at failed Treaty promises. The pressure to surrender tribal lands had the same impact – a shattered economy and a dispossessed people. The thrilling follow-up to Keith Newman's bestselling Bible & Treaty, Beyond Betrayal looks behind the events that led to the first Maori land protests, and follows the unfolding drama through the stories of the early missionaries and Maori heroes of the faith. These dramatic and heartrending tales of injustice, sacrifice and redemption form an important and often misunderstood backdrop to the wider New Zealand story – one of the most turbulent periods in our history, told with skill, sensitivity and heart.

Book Rautahi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joan Metge
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780415330572
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Rautahi written by Joan Metge and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the Maori in New Zealand, this book covers Maori history and culture, language and art and includes chapters on the following: · Basic concepts in Maori culture · Land · Kinship · Education · Association · Leadership & social control · The Marae · Hui · Maori and Pakeha · Maori spelling and pronunciation There is an extensive glossary, bibliography and index. First published in 1967. This edition reprints the revised edition of 1976.

Book Old New Zealand

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick Edward Maning
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-12-22
  • ISBN : 1108039812
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Old New Zealand written by Frederick Edward Maning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1863, this vivid account documents the traditional Maori way of life that was vanishing due to European influences.

Book The Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.