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April / May 2010
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Raupatu : the confiscation of Maori land, edited by Richard Boast and Richard S. Hill. (2009)This ground-breaking collection of essays by leading scholars – Bryan Gilling, James Belich, John C. Weaver, Alan Ward, Michael Allen, Mark Hickford, Vincent O’Malley, Judith Binney, Dion Tuuta, Alex Frame and Richard S. Boast – examines the confiscation of Maori land in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the broader imperial context.
The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies hosted a conference on 27-28 June 2008 called Coming to Terms? Raupatu/Confiscation and New Zealand History. ... This book is based on this important gathering. (drawn from the publisher's description)
In/visible sight : the mixed-descent families of Southern New Zealand, by Angela Wanhalla. (2009)
Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, In/visible Sight examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonisation in southern New Zealand. There Ngäi Tahu engaged with the European newcomers on a sustained scale from the 1820s, encountering systematic settlement from the 1840s and fighting land alienation from the 1850s. The evolving social world was one framed by marriage, kinship networks and cultural practices – a world in which inter-racial intimacy played a formative role. (drawn from the publisher's description)
Maori and the State : Crown-Maori relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1950-2000, by Richard S. Hill. (2009)
Maori and the State charts the Crown’s attempts to contain the energies of rangatiratanga and appropriate them for its own purposes, as it had done ever since early colonisation. The book analyses the ways in which Maori leaders and communities have utilised numerous opportunities to pursue rangatiratanga, including efforts to reappropriate the state institutions established to control them. In illuminating the interactions between Maori and state over a crucial half century, one in which the official pursuit of assimilation was superseded (under pressure from the Maori Renaissance) by bicultural policies, Maori and the State provides an essential background to Crown–Maori relations in New Zealand in the twenty-first century. (Drawn from the publisher's description)
Encircled lands : Te Urewera, 1820-1921, by Judith Binney. (2009)
This history documents the first hundred years of the ‘Rohe Potae’ (the ‘encircled lands’ of the Urewera) following European contact.
Encircled Lands explains how the idea of internal selfgovernment for Tuhoe was born – and for a period partly realised. It provides the historical context for an idea that has come again to the ‘negotiating table’: Tuhoe’s quest for a constitutional agreement that restores their ‘nationhood’. (Drawn from the publisher's description)
North south, by Glenn Colquhoun ; hand written and illustrated by Nigel Brown. (2009)
Award-winning poet Glenn Colquhoun imagines the northern gods of his Celtic heritage engaging with the atua Maori of the south, and creates a new mythology for those in this country who "have in their arms both ways".
The poems sprawl across the pages to clash, bend and ultimately fuse traditional Celtic and Maori motifs, song forms and poetry. (Drawn from the publisher's description)
Ned & Katina : a true love story, by Patricia Grace. (2009)
During the Second World War, wounded Maori Battalion soldier Ned Nathan falls in love with Katina in Crete. They return to live in the Far North of New Zealand.
Billy T : the life and times of Billy T James, by Matt Elliott. (2009)
Digital marae, by Lisa Reihana. (2009)
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Lisa Reihana : digital marae", Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 6 Oct.-2 Dec. 2007.
Contents Preface / Rhana Devenport -- "Take" : from the contemporary to the customary / Deirdre Brown -- "Digital marae" : home in motion : interview / Rhana Devenport -- The double / Victoria Lynn & Nikos Papastergiadis -- Works -- List of works -- Biography / Megan Tamati-Quennell.
Kura kaumaātua, he hokika mahara = Recalling the memories , compiled by Hana O'Regan and Charisma Rangipunga. (2009)
Te Heuheu : a people of the great lake, by Kelly Te Heuheu. (2009)
Journal Articles
Archifacts ; (Oct 2008-April 2009)
p. 54-66. Te Makarini and metadata : digitising the papers of Sir Donald McLean , by David Colcuhoun, David Jones & Elliott Young.
p. 67-84. He taonga mokemoke : a digital collection of unidentified Māori portraits by Lorraain Johnston & Sonya Maclaurin.
Art New Zealand ; no. 132 (Summer 2009-2010)
Pp 44. Open event : 24 hours with Michael Parekowhai, by Ian Wedde.
Asia pacific viewpoint ; vol. 50, no. 3 (December 2009)
p. 322. New Polynesian triangle : rethinking Polynesian migration and development in the Pacific, by Manuhuia Barcham, Regina Scheyvens and John Overton.
Curriculum matters ; no. 5 (2009)
pp. 5-24. The status of Te Atiawa histories of place in Port Nicholson Block (Wellington, Hutt Valley) secondary schools : some research findings, by Richard Manning.
Definingnz ; summer 2009/10
p. 8. Moriori project next on writer’s list, by Lana Simmons-Donaldson. Tina Dahlberg’s (Tina Makareti) next literary challenge is to complete a PhD thesis that will become a fiction novel focused on a Moriori ancestor. (Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Te Atiawa, Rangatahi, Moriori)
New Zealand journal of history ; vol. 43, no. 2 (October 2009)
p. 133-149. Revitalizing Te Ika-a-Maui : Māori migration and the nation by Nēpia Mahuika.
Sites ; vol. 6, no. 2 (2009)
P. 7. Mana taonga and the microworld of intricate research and findings aroung taonga Māori at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, by Huhana Smith.
p. 32. River ownership : inalienable taonga and impartible tupuna awa, by Marama Muru-Lanning.
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