Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
This category deals with the Maori as they have written about themselves, or as they have been written about by scholars and storytellers. The latter is more numerous.
Still Being Punished by Rachael Selby
$17.50 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture | Reading Level: very good
This book records the stories of five Maori men and women. They are not their life stories, and they haven't told them over and over again. They've snuck bits of these stories into conversations they've had with families and friends over the years. They've tentatively tested some of the contents on frie ...Show more
Titus Angus White & the Maori Captives on Waitemata Harbour 1863/4 by Barbara Francis
$45.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
In November 1863 at the battle of Rangiriri, over 180 Māori defenders were taken prisoner. They were marched up the Great South Road to Ōtāhuhu, from where they were transferred onto the Waitematā Harbour. There they were held captive on the prison ship Marion for nearly eight months, supervised by thei ...Show more
Maori Origins and Migrations - The Genesis of Some Pakeha Myths and Legends by M P K Sorrenson
$21.50 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture | Reading Level: good
Second hand. Since Europeans first set foot in New Zealand they have speculated about where the Māori people came from, how they made their way to New Zealand and how they lived when they arrived here. Theories have abounded: some of them have hardened into accepted truth. The result has been an accumu ...Show more
Mokorua: Nga korero mo toku moko kauae - My story of moko kauae by Ariana Tikao
$45.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
One woman’s journey to her moko kauae as an expression of her Kāi Tahu identity. I kā rā o mua, I would know my place in my tīpuna’s time, I would know my face. Mokorua is a revealing and emotional account of one woman receiving her moko kauae. Ariana Tikao grew up in suburban Christchurch in the 1970s ...Show more
Nana's Baking Day/TeRa Tunu Keke a Kui by Marie Munro, Rachel Doragh, Piripi Walker
$25.00 NZD
Category: 5 to 10 years
Bella, Jacob and Lucas are hands-on in the kitchen as they follow three recipes in English and Māori, all the while looking forward to the satisfaction of eating the sweet treats that they have baked for themselves. These three recipes are included at the back of the book in English and te reo Māori. Na ...Show more
Te Kooti's Last Foray by Ron Crosby
$49.99 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
- Bold, brilliant interpretation of overlooked episode in New Zealand Wars - Crosby's hallmark clarity and detailed maps bring events to life - Teacher resource available. On 7 March 1870 the prophet and rebel Te Kooti swept out of Te Urewera to Opape, east of Opotiki, in what would be his last major ac ...Show more
Ancient Wisdom: Modern Solutions. The Inspirational Story of One Man's Quest to Become a Modern Day Warrior by Ngahini O Te Ra Bidois
$18.50 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture | Reading Level: good
The very intimate account of the life of Patrick Bidois recording the highs and lows as he 'joined the ranks of the unemployed to relearn the language he'd once spurned... reconnected with his Maori heritage... and finally made the life-changing decision to receive the gift of ta moo from his ancestors" ...Show more
Rebecca and the Maoris by Gregory Riethmaier
$55.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Legends of Maoriland 1, 4, 5, & 6 by A.W. Reed
$60.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
The Forgotten Prophet: Tāmati Te Ito and his Kaingārara Movement by Jeffrey Sissons
$50.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
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 s ...Show more
Hey Boy! by Jane and Bernie Hill
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Second hand
Guide Rangi Of Rotorua by Rangitiaria Dennan with Ross Annabell
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Second hand, 1968 first edition.