Navigating the Stars - Maori Creation Myths by Witi Ihimaera
44.99 NZD
Category: Māori History | Reading Level: very good
From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maori myths for the twenty-first century. In this milestone volume, Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama ...Show more
AUETANGA O NGATI WHAKAUE KI TE KARAUNA- Roar of Ngati Whakaue Against the crown 1880 - 2020 by Hamuera W Mitchell
24.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
He Tipuna Whakahirahira by Parehau Richards
19.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
He Tīpuna Whakahirahira (2004) records a collective memory of the Whakaruruhau Project - the carving of ancestral poupou erected at the Te Whānau-a-Apanui Area School in 1985 to commemorate the school's centenary (1875-1975). During the early 1980s kaumātua and scholars decided which ancestors and which ...Show more
Walking With Chiefs by Ron Kendall
50.00 NZD
Category: Māori History
From the beginning of time in Aotearoa spirituality has been the very foundation upon which Māori culture was built.Many stories have been passed down through the ages of great feats of spiritual divinity and the Mana possessed by the Rangatira and Tohunga of many of our hapu and Iwi.We were all born in ...Show more
Evolution of Kapa Haka in Ohinemutu, Rotorua, 1880 to 2020 by DGR Pene
69.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
Decoding Maori Cosmology by Laird Scranton
29.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
An exploration of New Zealand's Maori cosmology and how it relates to classic ancient symbolic traditions around the world - Shows how Maori myths, symbols, cosmological concepts, and words reflect symbolic elements found at G bekli Tepe in Turkey - Demonstrates parallels between the Maori cosmo ...Show more
Pakeha Settlements in a Maori World - New Zealand Archaeology 1769 1860 by Ian Smith
59.99 NZD
Category: Māori History | Reading Level: near fine
Introducing general readers to New Zealand archaeology, Pakeha Settlements in a Maori World tells the story of the first European encounters with a new land. This is a fascinating approach to history through material culture, documenting a period of dramatic change in these South Pacific islands. From t ...Show more
Cook Voyages Encounters by Janet Davidson
65.00 NZD
Category: Māori History | Reading Level: near fine
Almost 250 years after James Cook first sighted Aotearoa in October 1769, world-wide interest in all aspects of his exploration of the Pacific endures. In this handsome book, widely respected Pacific scholar Janet Davidson details the collection of Maori, Pacific and Native American objects associated w ...Show more
Te Hahi Mihinare - The Maori Anglican Church by Hirini Kaa
49.99 NZD
Category: Māori History | Reading Level: near fine
This ground-breaking book explores the emergence of Te Hahi Mihinare - the Maori Anglican Church. Anglicanism, brought to New Zealand by English missionaries in 1814, was made widely known by Maori evangelists, as iwi adapted the religion to make it their own. The ways in which Mihinare (Maori Anglicans ...Show more
Wild Wind from the North by Stafford Don
39.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
Hongi Hika's invasion of the Rotorua area in 1823 is one of the most dramatic and daring assaults in New Zealand history. Armed with muskets, Hongi's forces had roamed the North Island seeking utu (revenge) for past slights. Te Arawa, inland and with their island stronghold of Mokoia on Lake Rotorua, fe ...Show more