Ask The Posts Of The House

Ihimaera, Witi

Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd

Introducing Maori Culture

History

Don Stafford

Australia & Oceania

Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand's colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha settlers in a struggle that swapped the weapons of war for the weapons of peace. Taking as their symbol the white feather, the chiefs Te Whiti and Tohu led Parihaka in one of the world's first-recorded campaigns of passive resistance. Maori ploughmen wrote its message across the settlers' pastures, and Maori fencers underlined the point by throwing barriers across the queen's highways. Withstanding repeated military action, the spirit of resistance born at Parihaka kept alive the flame of that supposedly 'dying race', the Maori. Ask That Mountain draws on official papers, settler manuscripts and oral history to give the first complete account of what took place at Parihaka. Now in its ninth edition, this seminal work was in 1995 named by the Sunday Star-Times as one of the ten most important books published in New Zealand.

Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka

Scott, Dick

Te Mahi Kete

Arts & Photography

Mick Pendergrast

History & Criticism

An Illustrated Guide to Maori Art

Terence Barrow

The Raupo Pocket Dictionary of Modern Maori is a portable reference source for speakers of English and Maori at all levels. This new edition has been fully revised by the author. It features:  * More than 20,000 entries divided into Maori-English and English-Maori sections. * The most frequently used words in both languages. * A guide to Maori grammar and pronunciation. * A list of common phrases in Maori.  * A map of tribal areas, helpful for understanding linguistic variations.  * Separate lists of key vocabulary and proverbs. * Indexed pages for quick consultation.

Raupo Pocket Dictionary of Modern Maori

Reference

Ryan, PM

Foreign Language Study & Reference

This highly illustrated book tells the story of the godwits and their migrations - why and how they do it. It follows the birds on their intrepid journeys, examining the places they visit, be it an estuary in northern New Zealand, a mudflat on the Chinese-North Korean border, or a tundra nesting site in Alaska. Keith Woodley, godwit expert and manager of the Miranda Shorebird Centre in New Zealand, details the amazing changes these bird undergo before and during their voyages - from moulting into new plumage, to doubling their weight and shrinking non-essential body organs - as well as their array of innate skills in weather prediction and global navigation, weaving the latest scientific findings into history, literature and folklore. In Godwits the author's eye-witness accounts and meticulous research culminate in a tale of navigation and stunning fortitude that will delight both professional bird watchers and general readers curious to discover more about one of nature's quiet achievers.

Godwits: Long Haul Champions

Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Witi, Ihimaera

Literature & Fiction

Introducing Maori Art

Brown, Deirdre

The Maori have a rich and colourful tradition of myth and legend - many of their most important and popular tales are retold in this classic, bestselling book. Written with the general reader in mind, the stories range from the creation of the world to the coming of life, death and knowledge. They incorporate the great god Tane, Maui who tamed the sun, the woman on the moon, monsters, fairies, wondrous birds and moving mountains.

Maori Myth And Legend

Politics & Social Sciences

REED, A.W.

Social Sciences

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