Maori

Information is right at your fingertips through the following databases:

Waitangi Tribunal Reports

This site includes the published reports of the Waitangi Tribunal as well as information about the Tribunal and its duties. Full reports are in pdf format. The direct link to the Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika and The Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust Settlement is now available.
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BETA search – National Library of New Zealand

As the name suggests, this searches across all of their catalogue resources and contains a mine of information, including links to manuscripts, photographs, newspapers and ephemera. This includes Donald McLean Papers ; Timeframes ; TAPUHI ; Paperspast ; AtoJsonline. (Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives).
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Niupepa

The Niupepa: Māori Newspapers Digital Collection is an electronic collection of over 17,000 pages taken from 34 separate periodicals. It is based on 'Niupepa 1842-1933', a microfiche collection produced by the Alexander Turnbull Library. 70% of the collection is written solely in Māori, 27% is bilingual and about 3% is written in English. There were three main types of niupepa published; government sponsored, Māori initiated, and religious.
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Te Ao Hou

A magazine published by the Dept of Māori Affairs between 1951 and 1976 which aimed to “provide interesting and informative reading for Māori homes. It's strength is in its treatment of 'social' conditions and issues of the day.
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Maori Land Court Minutes Index

An index database providing easy, quick reference to over 1100 minute book records, 1865 and 1910. May include whakapapa as proof to a person’s right to succession to the land. (Note – this is not a fulltext database).
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Māorilandonline

A snapshot of current ownership, trustee, memorial and block information for land that falls within the jurisdiction of the Māori Land Court under Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 and other legislation.
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Historical BDM online

The Department of Internal Affairs has made the index of selected historical records available online. These are
• Births that occurred at least 100 years ago
• Stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago
• Marriages that occurred at least 80 years ago
• Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago.
Note : This does not include births etc that were registered as Māori births. This database is only available in-house at the Second floor of the Cental Library.
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Te Ara – including Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

The biographies section of Te Ara contains stories of people who have 'made their mark' on New Zealand. It does not include people who are alive, but does include all the biographies previously available at www.dnzb.govt.nz. If you need more infromation about the person, follow up the sources used at the end of each article.
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NZETC - NZ Electronic Text Centre

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre is a huge number of digitised texts – including a many historical books with interesting Māori information and stories. The collection contains over 1400 texts and will continue to grow through projects to support teaching, learning and research at the university.
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London Illustrated News, (New Zealand content), 1842-1902

The Illustrated London News was a picture newspaper that ran for over 150 years, published every week. The emphasis was always on Britain but world events were covered, especially where Britain was involved or affected. The emerging colony of New Zealand received some coverage especially during the New Zealand Wars. This database produced by the University of Waikato Library includes scanned images of the all the text and illustrations that refer to events in New Zealand during the first sixty years from volume 1 in 1842 to volume 121 in 1902. The entries can be searched by keyword or you can browse in chronological order.
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Tu Mai Iwi

Constructed from census data from 2001 and 2006 this information from Dept of Labour identifies changes over a five-year time period and allows an iwi to identify and build a skills and talent profile.
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Naumai Place

The profiles contain historic information as well as the latest news from each of the 126 marae who contribute to this database.
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Index New Zealand

Index New Zealand (INNZ) is an index with abstracts from selected New Zealand serial publications, including newspapers, and nearly 300 journals about New Zealand and the South Pacific.
INNZ is updated daily and approximately 2,000 documents are added monthly. Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities. Comprehensive coverage of titles extends from 1987 onwards. Many New Zealand titles have also been retrospectively indexed.
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Tāngata Māori Database

This comprises a collection of articles on Māori people covering the years 1930 to the present day, many of them taken from the Dominion and Evening Post newspapers. The core of the material once formed the biographies file of the New Zealand vertical file collection.
Rohe/iwi mentioned include: Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Mataatua.
The complete article can be viewed by either requesting the listed MVF subject file from staff at the Central Library, or requesting to see a microfilmed copy of the original newspaper.
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Wellington City Libraries Māori pages

Click here for more useful links and information about the Library's resources.