Books on Ngai Tahu Adams, M. with text by Evison, H. Land of Memories, Scarred by People: Whenua I Maharatia, Haehae Nga Takata. 51 black-and-white photographs of special Ngai Tahu sites throughout Te Wai Pounamu, including caves, river-mouths, mountains, lakes, pa sites and mahinga kai sources. Powerful memories evoked by Evison's lucid text and inevitable contrast with land's current appearance, which Tipene O'Regan's Foreword compares to karanga. as being "statements of what, is- They are not recriminations or accusations. Their call to us is to pause and to remember. As we do, we are driven to do better for the land and for its people". Anderson, A. Te Puoho's last raid. 1986. Te Puoho led a Ngati Tama (Marlborough) war-party from Golden Bay along the length of the West Coast, across the Southern Alps and through the Interior of Otago and Southland to storm the Ngai Tahu villages on the shores and Islands of Foveaux Strait. Anderson, A. The Welcome of Strangers Anderson, A. When All the Moa Ovens Grew Cold: Nine Centuries of Changing Fortune for the Southern Maori. Archaeological study of pre-European southern Maori; emphasis on economic patterns rather than social organization. Maps, diagrams, photos, bibliography Beattie, H. Maori place-names of Buller County Beattie, H. Maori place-names of Canterbury [1945;1995]. Useful Maori background information with many names. (Waitaha). Beattie, H. Maori place-names of Otago. 1944. Useful Maori background information with many names. Beattie, H. The Maoris and Fiordland. Beattie, H. Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori. Ed. Atholl Anderson. 1994. One-volume printing of MS 181(Hocken) records material cultural details gathered from Ngai Tahu informants (listed) by Beattie in 1920. Covers Murihiku (being Rakiura to Temuka), Canterbury, Nelson, Westland; wide variety of subjects from chewing-gum to surfing to flax armour, Extensive index useful - also maps, photos, appendices, glossary, references. As with all Beattie's records, this is an extremely detailed and valuable work. Beattie, H. Our Southernmost Maoris. Beattie, H. ed. Tikao Talks. Auckland: Penguin, 1990. (Direct offset of original edition, AH. & A.W, Reed, 1939.) Result of conversations between Beattie and Teone Taare Tikao (b.1850) recognized major authority on South Island Maori mythology, history and culture. Contains much information not easily available elsewhere, particularly whakapapa. Also covers cosmogony, Hawaiki, occupation of Te Wai Pounamu, places and methods of learning, the nature of mana; customs of fishing, colouring, burial, etc. A unique record of the past. Belgrave, M. Historic Frictions: Maori Claims & Reinvented Histories, Auckland University Press, 2005. Chapter 4 on the Ngai Tahu claim to the Waitangi Tribunal. As a historic researcher with the Tribunal, the author provides an insight into dubious claims put forward by the tribe, as well as reinforcing some of the more glaring breaches of the Treaty. An interesting book for readers of history surrounding the claim. Brailsford, B. Greenstone Trails: The Maori Search for Pounamu. creation of South Island (both geologically and mythologically), pounamu fields, ancient Maori methods of working the stone. Notes that much North Island invasion driven by desire for pounamu; reconstruction, using Maori tradition, archaeological research, records of European explorers (Heaphy, Brunner.etc), of individual trails : Kawatiri, Mawhera, Mamia, Taramakau, Rakaia, Poutini coast, Fiordland. Emphasis on living off the land, the precision of oral maps. Photos, maps, diagrams, facsimiles. Brailsford, B The Tatooed Land 1st edition only is recommended. Archeological footprint of South Island Maori. Each pa site features explanation of lifestyle (traditions, food, dwellings),European accounts (Cook, Banks, Stack, Heaphy, etc), archaeological evidence, photos. Sites at Wairau, Kaikoura coast, Kaiapoi, Poutini coast, Murihiku, Otakou. Extensive maps (108), illustrations, bibliography, index. Cormack, S. Four generations from Maoridom: the memoirs of a South Island kaumatua and fisherman. An autobiography. Includes whakapapa tables. Ngai Tahu, Kati Mamoe. Cormack, S. Southern people: a dictionary of Otago Southland biography. 1998. The Ellison family, and the Karetai family are just of few of the whanau mentioned in this publication. Ngai Tahu. Couch, A. Rapaki Remembered: history and reminiscence. 1987 History, traditions and daily life of the village settlement Rapaki in Lyttelton Harbour. Dacker, B. Te mamae me te aroha = The pain and the love: a history of Kai Tahu Whanui in Otago, 1844-1994. 1994. Dacker, B. The People of the Place: Mahika Kai. Wellington: New Zealand 1990 Commission, 1990. Based on collection of oral history and archives, full explanation of mahinga kai: calendar, storage techniques, kaihaukai, ahikaroa, and tapu- Also moving about the land : place names, guides, travelling skills, impact of Europeans : Kemp's Deed and The Claim. Follows Taua Hiria Barrett 's food-gathering cycle throughout the year to show how rights have been maintained up to present; discusses the effects of pollution and environmental changes upon resources. Photographs, maps and diagrams,also glossary. Duff, R. The Moa-hunter period of Maori Culture. An arceological examination of a camp of moa hunters at the mouth of the Wairau river. Elvy, W. The Kaikoura Coast The history, traditions and Maori placenames of Kaikoura |