History of Maori of Nelson and Marlborough


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Te Ara Hou - The New Society is the second volume in the history of Maori in Nelson and Marlborough. This history details Maori participation in the European settlement society, from commitment to Christianity to enthusiasm for commerce and relationships with Europeans. It shows how Maori fared under European institutions, struggled to survive and how Maori culture and language were swamped by assimilation and Anglicisation.




History of Māori of Nelson and Marlborough


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"Volume One, Te Tangata me te Whenua - the people and the land, encompasses myths and legends of the region, the succession of tribes who have inhabited Te Tau Ihu o te Waka and their interactions, early encounters with Europeans, the arrival of the New Zealand Company, the Treaty of Waitangi, land transactions, and the administration of Maori Resserves." - p. 16.




Te Tau Ihu O Te Waka


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Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in English with some Maori. Contains Maori baptisms, marriages, censuses, signatories, owners of occupation, tenths and landless native reserves etc. Invaluable for those with whakapapa connections to Te Tau Ihu (Nelson-Marlborough). Some baptism and census records of Ngai Tahu people.







Old Tasman Bay


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Old Marlborough


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The Way We Were


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One of a 16-volume series in landscape format, each volume giving the history and development of a different region from the 1860s to the 1950s. For a wide readership, a short introduction covers the region's earliest Pakeha history, and is followed by 70 pages of black (or sepia) and white photographs from family albums. Informative and slight tongue-in-cheek captions take into account post-1970s thinking about women, Maori, and the environment.




Kei Puta Te Wairau


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He Ringatoi O Ngā Tūpuna


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"This is a biography of English artist Isaac Coates who painted an important series of historical Māori portraits in Te Tau Ihu/Top of the South and the Wellington area, between 1841 and 1845. The 58 watercolour portraits depict Māori men and women from chiefly whakapapa, as well as commoners and at least one slave. Coates's meticulous records of each subject's name, iwi and place of residence are invaluable, and his paintings are strong images of individuals, unlike the stereotyped art of the day. Whānau, hapū and iwi treasure Coates's works because they are the only images of some tūpuna. In He Ringatoi O Ngā Tūpuna eminent Te Tau Ihu historians John and Hilary Mitchell unravel the previously unknown story of Isaac Coates, as well as providing biographical details and whakapapa of his subjects, where they can be reliably identified. They discuss Coates's work, and the many copies of his portraits held in collections in New Zealand, Australia, US and UK"--Publisher's website.




Maori and Polynesian


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