I. Maori: the Travails of the Ngai Tahu (9 pages)

Heni Kiniwai Hampstead (nee Mamura) and her son, wife of Ngai Tahu chieftain Wi Pokuku outside their home in Moeraki north of Dunedin in 1903 (Otago Museum and Hocken Collection)
Heni Kiniwai Hampstead (nee Mamura) and her son, wife of Ngai Tahu chieftain Wi Pokuku outside their home in Moeraki north of Dunedin in 1903 (Otago Museum and Hocken Collection)

These six pages look at the travails of the Ngai Tahu iwi (tribe/nation) in the South Island from the arrival ofthe first settlers in Otago through the Treaty of Waitangi and the Arahura Deed to the settlement that was finally won through the Waitangi Tribunal in the 21st century.

 

Maori and Settlers: the Otago Peninsula

The Treaty of Waitangi

The Arahura Deed

The Ngai Tahu Settlement

Other Maori Settlements

Maori Social Investment: the Ngai Tahu example

 

There are a couple of other pages - some photos of Maori artefacts at the Otago Museum in Dunedin and photos of an exhibition of five Maori painters at the Auckland Gallery in March 2014.

 

I'll be adding more.

Kura Te Waru Rewiri 'Tenei au, tenei au' (This is me, this is me) (Acrylic, 2006) at the Auckland Gallery exhibition, Five Maori Painters, March 2014.
Kura Te Waru Rewiri 'Tenei au, tenei au' (This is me, this is me) (Acrylic, 2006) at the Auckland Gallery exhibition, Five Maori Painters, March 2014.
Land protest at Bastion Point/Takaparawhau near Auckland in the 1977-8. In 1988 the government announced that it had agreed to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that Bastion Point be returned to
Land protest at Bastion Point/Takaparawhau near Auckland in the 1977-8. In 1988 the government announced that it had agreed to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that Bastion Point be returned to the local iwi (tribe), Ngāti Whātua (Auckland Museum)

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