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A sample list of 150 non-fiction books
  • A sample list of 150 non-fiction books

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The Lore of the Whare-Wananga—H.T. Whatahoro (1913)

Hoani Te Whatahoro Jury, an early 19th Centu...
  • Hoani Te Whatahoro Jury, an early 19th Century Māori scholar whose work contributed to many later significant publications.

The State of Māori Rights—Margaret Mutu (2011)

The State of Māori Rights brings together a set...
  • The State of Māori Rights brings together a set of articles written between 1994 and 2009...

Mau Moko: The World of Māori Tattoo—Ngahuia Te Awekotuku et al (2007)

In the traditional Māori...
  • In the traditional Māori world, moko was part of everyday life. This book is the closest there has ever been to a ‘complete’ book on moko.

Te Toi Whakairo: The Art of Māori Carving—Sir Hirini Moko Mead (1986)

This book on Māori carvi...
  • This book on Māori carving is written by Sir Hirini Moko Mead, a leading authority on Māori art and culture and a driving force behind the seminal Te Māori exhibitio...

Māori Television: The First Ten Years—Jo Smith (2016)

This book explores the power of the media...
  • This book explores the power of the media in shoring up a sense of self and collective identity.

Pūtea Whakairo: Māori and the Written Word—Bradford Haami (2004)

This book explores the early ...
  • This book explores the early adoption of literacy amongst Māori by following the writing of the Maaka family.

The Coming of the Maori—Peter H. Buck (1949)

This publication by the extraordinary scholar Sir P...
  • This publication by the extraordinary scholar Sir Peter Buck - Te Rangi Hiroa covers Māori history from the discovery of New Zealand.

Sociocultural Realities: Exploring New Horizons - Angus McFarlane et al (2015)

Today’s book cele...
  • Today’s book celebrates an important educational volume that eloquently calls the reader to lift their eyes off the page and towards new horizons – to reimagine the...

Hīkoi: Forty Years of Māori Protest—Aroha Harris (2004)

This book provides an overview of the ...
  • This book provides an overview of the contemporary Māori protest ‘movement’: what have Māori been protesting about and what has been achieved?

Māori Sovereignty—Donna Awatere (1984)

In 'Maori Sovereignty', Donna Awatere develops a powerfu...
  • In 'Maori Sovereignty', Donna Awatere develops a powerful argument about the costs to Māori of cultural imperialism and the importance of Indigenous peoples recovering...

Ngā Mōteatea: He Maramara Rere nō ngā Waka Maha—Apirana Turupa Ngata (1928–1988)

From the ...
  • From the 1920s, Sir Āpirana Ngata began collecting and annotating these traditional songs.

Ko Tahu, Ko Au: Kāi Tahu Tribal Identity—Hana O’Regan (2001)

This research investigates the d...
  • This research investigates the development of pan-Māori identity and how it has manifested itself within New Zealand society, focusing specifically on how Kāi Tahu id...

Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End—Ranginui Walker (1990)

Since the mid-nineteenth cent...
  • Since the mid-nineteenth century, Māori have been involved in an endless struggle for justice, equality and self-determination...

A Korao [kōrero] no New Zealand; or the New Zealander’s first book; being an attempt to compose some lessons for the instruction of the natives – Thomas Kendall (1815)
  • The first book about the Māori language was ‘written’ by Anglican missionary Thomas Kendall in 1815...

A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngāti Porou Carving, 1830–1930—Ngarino Ellis (2016)
  • Focusing on 30 meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngāti Porou carving and a profound transformation in Māori art.

Culture Counts: Changing Power Relations in Education—Russell Bishop and Ted Glynn (1999)
  • This book analyses why so many Māori children start out well, but still fail at school.

Colonising Myths – Māori Realities: He Rukuruku Whakaaro—Ani Mikaere (2011)

This book brings ...
  • This book brings together a series of papers by Ani Mikaere that reflect on the effect of Pākehā law, legal processes and teaching on Māori legal thought and practic...

Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds – Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins (2017)

The life and experien...
  • The life and experiences of Tuai, one of the most prominent pre-Treaty Māori travellers, has provided rich material for this successful shortlisted book for the Ockham...

The Art of Māori Weaving: The Eternal Thread – Miriama Evans and Ranui Ngarimu (2005).

Featurin...
  • Featuring some of New Zealand’s foremost Māori expert weavers, 'The Eternal Thread: The Art of Māori Weaving' celebrates innovation and development of weaving and p...

Whaikorero: The World of Māori Oratory – Poia Rewi (2010)

Anyone who has been welcomed on to a ...
  • Anyone who has been welcomed on to a marae in New Zealand will understand that whaikōrero – oratory – is at the heart of Māori culture and this significant work i...

Tikanga Whakaaro: Key Concepts in Māori Culture – Cleve Barlow (1991)

Cleve Barlow’s 'Tikanga...
  • Cleve Barlow’s 'Tikanga Whakaaro' is an early bilingual publication in Te Reo Māori and English that provides explanatory notes of seventy Māori concepts which Barl...

The Pūriri Trees are Laughing: A Political History of Ngā Puhi in the Inland Bay of Islands - Jeffery Sissons, Wiremu Wi Hongi and Pat Hohepa, (1987)
  • This highly regarded work brings together Ngāpuhi oral traditions and early European accounts of the inland Bay of Islands region...

Resistance: An Indigenous Response to Neoliberalism – Maria Bargh (Ed.) (2007)

In this book Dr M...
  • In this book Dr Maria Bargh brings together a unique collection of papers from Māori academics, activists and leaders highlighting the connection between globally domi...

Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits – N. Mason and Z. Stanhope (2016)
  • For Māori, the faces that look out from Lindauer’s portraits are tribal leaders and family members. They are tohunga and politicians. They are ancestors and friends...

Te Takoto o te Whenua o Hauraki: Hauraki Landmarks – Taimoana Turoa (2000)

This book is a major ...
  • This book is a major publication that represents many years of scholarly and field research by the late Taimoana Turoa (Whanganui and Ngāti Tamaterā)...

Let’s Learn Māori: A Guide to the Study of the Māori Language. Bruce Biggs (1969)

No one could...
  • No one could have predicted the formidable achievements of Professor Bruce Biggs (Ngāti Maniapoto) when in 1951 he was plucked from a school teaching post in Ruatoria ...

The Welcome of Strangers: An Ethnohistory of Southern Māori 1650-1850 – Athol Anderson (1998)
  • Two hundred years ago Māori in the south of New Zealand had a lifestyle quite distinct from that of their northern cousins, and different experiences of contact with E...

Diversity in Community: Indigenous Scholars Writing 2016

This book, edited by Mere Kēpa and Chery...
  • This book, edited by Mere Kēpa and Cheryl Stephens, celebrates and reflects on what it takes to build a dynamic community of Māori scholars.

Renata’s Journery: Helen Hogan and Renata Kawepo Tama Ki Hikurangi (1994)

This book is one of th...
  • This book is one of the earliest surviving pieces of Māori writing of significant length...

International Indigenous Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand – Andrew Erueti (Ed.) 2017

This collecti...
  • This collection of essays places the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of New Zealand rights around such issues as Treaty settlements, m...

Future Challenges for Māori: He Kōrero Anamata, Selwyn Katene and Malcolm Mulholland (Eds) (2013)
  • This collection of edited seminar presentations from leading academics and professionals – from law, medicine, business and the social sciences –challenges our thin...

A Fire in Your Belly: Māori Leaders Speak, Paul Diamond (2003)

What makes a Māori leader? Are th...
  • What makes a Māori leader? Are there common patterns? This book focusses on six outstanding people who have united, mobilised and led large and diverse groups of Māor...

Tuwharetoa: A history of the Māori People of the Taupo District by John Te Herekiekie Grace (1959)
  • This book, first published in 1959, is recognised and remains a tribal classic for Ngāti Tuwharetoa.

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