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• Te Wiria's potatoes / Alfred A. Grace
• A daughter of Maoriland / Henry Lawson
• Pipi on the prowl / Blanche Baughan
• The slave's reward / Will Lawson
• How Pearl Button was kidnapped / Katherine Mansfield
• White man's burden / Frank Sargeson
• The totara tree / Roderick Finlayson
• The little bridge / Robin Hyde
• The whare / Douglas Stewart
• Hinemoa / Annie Wright
• Along Rideout Road that summer / Maurice Duggan
• The lagoon / Janet Frame
• For all the saints / J.C. Sturm
• The girl from Kaeo / Noel Hilliard
• One two three four five / Arapera Blank
• The people before / Maurice Shadbolt
• Strife in the family / Rowley Habib
• Broken arse / Bruce Stewart
• Ngati Kangaru / Patricia Grace
• Needles and glass / Fiona Kidman
• The affectionate kidnappers / Witi Ihimaera
• He tauware kawa, he kawa tauware / Keri Hume
• The basketball girls / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
• For crying out loud / Bill Payne
• Freedom Hill / Apirana Taylor
• Auntie Netta / Marewa Glover
• Redemption / Phil Kawana
• Rongomai does Dallas / Briar Grace-Smith.

'As soon as he saw it, Miro Mananui knew what it was. An owl, its cryptic flaring with the dawn.' Who has the owl come for? Whose name has it cried out to Miro Mananui, the Matua of the village of Waituhi? In 'Band of Angels', mane lives and stories intersect. The passionate Mattie Jones bears a horrifying secret; Tama Mananui makes the most of an arranged marriage with a woman 20 years older; Nani Paora holds the key to the past and a history filled with bloodshed; and his grandson Pene may well be the key to the future. Pita Mahana's attempts to reinstate the past set in train events that lead to the return of the owl for its victims. Fuelled by passion, politics, psychic power and the search for truth, Band of Angels is another compelling novel from the master story teller Witi Ihimaera.
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There has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, it sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s. Parihaka is the place Erenora calls home, a peaceful Taranaki settlement overcome by war and land confiscation. As her world is threatened, Erenora must find within herself the strength, courage and ingenuity to protect those whom she loves. And, like a Shakespearean heroine, she must change herself before she can take up her greatest challenge and save her exiled husband, Horitana. Surprising, inventive and deeply moving, The Parihaka Woman confirms Witi Ihimaera as one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers.
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Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Orakau. During three days in 1864, 300 Maori men, women and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end of the Land Wars in the Waikato and resulted in vast tracts of land being confiscated for European settlement. Instead of following the usual standpoint of the victors, this book takes a Maori perspective. It is centred around Witi Ihimaera's moving novella, Sleeps Standing, which views the battle through the eyes of a 16-year-old boy named Moetu. Alongside the novella are non-fiction narratives from Maori eyewitnesses, together with waiata, images and a Maori translation by Hemi Kelly, further giving voice to and illuminating the people who tried to protect their culture and land. It is estimated that, at the height of the battle, 1700 immensely superior troops, well-armed and amply resourced, laid siege to the hastily constructed pa at Orakau. The defenders were heavily outnumbered with few supplies or weapons but, when told to submit, they replied- 'E hoa, ka whawhai tonu matou, ake, ake, ake!' 'Friend, I shall fight against you for ever, for ever!'.
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• Acknowledgements Author's Note Foreword Mika: Still a Star Witi Ihimaera Chapter One Weet-Bix Maori Chapter Two Spoof Dancing Chapter Three Tenei Toku Ure
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From the Old Mill Disco in Timaru to San Francisco's ACT UP protests, through Jazzercise and drag, AIDS and homosexual law reform, I Have Loved Me a Man takes readers inside the social revolution that has moved New Zealand from the 1960s to the present day through the story of the one, the only, queer Maori performance artist: Mika. Mika grew up in Timaru, was adopted into a white family, and learnt Maori culture from the back of a cereal box. He discovered disco in the 1970s, worked with Carmen, Dalvanius Prime, Merata Mita and others to develop outrageous stage shows that toured the world, played a policeman on television in Shark in the Park and came out on screen with Harvey Keitel, playing a takatapui role in Jane Campion's Academy Award-winning film The Piano. Mika has never been in the closet: his life has been an ongoing production of both the fabulous and the revolutionary. This highly visual book interweaves archival and historical research with images hand-picked from Mika's extensive archive to reveal the life and times of a queer brown boy from Aotearoa who took on the big white world.
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• Kopara 28
• He Waiata Pepeha 30
• In the beginning 31
• Kei Runga above 1 32
• A prophetic land 33
• In praise of land and sea 35
• A homage to Tāne 35
• A homage to Tangaroa 35
• Ko Hiwarau te Maunga 36
• Rain poems 37
• The valley 37
• Wai 37
• E Ma 38
• Ka Riri te Whānau a Tāne 41
• Tāwhiri, Kaitiaki of Winds 42
• E ao Māori 44
• Ko te Tapu o te Whenua 45
• The songs of Tangaroa 46
• Te Au o te Moana 46
• Ra'iātea 46
• Whakarongo ki to au 47
• He Kuaka Marangaranga 47
• Hineahuone 48
• Toro atu Taku Ringa 51
• Tamariki mā 52
• Why does a leaf turn? 54
• Waikato eternal 56
• Raparapa 57
• Taiāwhiowhio 58
• PART TWO --The swaying Kahikatea 60
• E te atua 62
• Kei Runga above 2 63
• At the place of stacked guns 64
• Te Kooti 67
• Rua, the Prophet 69
• Hau Hau 72
• Redemption is a long way home 73
• Paradox 76
• Go east of your mountain 78
• Kaua e Hoko Whenua 80
• Kaumātua 81
• Women heroes 83-- The art of the oral storyteller (An oral transcript) 85
• Ka Tangi to Pere 97
• Two glimpses of Koro Rimaha 99
• The dream spinner 99
• Bundles of Raupō 100
• The day the world changed 102
• Two poems of Nani Wai 105
• Koha 105
• E Pii, e Paa 106
• Mātauranga 107
• Shearing song 109
• Matauri Bay 113
• Kūmara 113
• Three times a day 114
• Te Kaupapa o Te Marae 115
• He Kōtuku Rerenga Tahi 118
• Te Rerenga Wairua The way the spirits go 119
• Tuppence 121
• Blue 122
• Remember 124
• Kua Rongo ake Au 1 125
• PART THREE
• Beating against the wind 130
• Karakia 132
• HAARE WILLIAMS: THE INTERVIEW 133
• Repartee 136
• The Pott reorients himself from a hill in Tāmaki Makaurau 138
• Waahi The Huntly Power Station 140
• Patches hide no scars 141
• Calvaria 142
• Te Ao Orokohanga He Pātere 144
• Keep the revolution going (Haare, talking off the cuff to police staff) 146
• The Hawke of Takaparawhau 149
• Ranginui 150
• Kukume 151
• At four this morning 152--
• 20 Great South Road 154
• Hāmiora Pere 156
• Bloody nails of Calvary 157
• Esther 159
• Waitangi poems 162
• A rose by any other name 162
• White Curl 162
• Five nations crossing the bridge 163
• Year of the Waka 1990 165
• A prayer 166
• Hīkoi kī Waitangi 167
• Builder of people and waka 168
• On the word 'pākehā' 169
• Waitangi update, 2013 172
• Partnership
• Restoration -Te Whakahou 175
• PART FOUR
• Sing, bellbird 176
• Puakina the spoken word 178
• TE AO KANAPA (A Memoir) 179
• Moko 189
• Kua Rongo ake Au 2 190
• Love poems 194
• Woman 194
• Wahine toa 194
• Moves 195
• Hinekura 196
• What is Māori education or mātauranga Maori? 197
• Ngā pātai 200
• Banish the word 208
• Kauri 214
• For once then I am 216
• Contemplation 217
• Tāku hū my shoe 218
• Bird songs 220
• Te kōhanga 220
• Fantail 221
• He iti kōpara noa 222
• He kuaka 222
• Hiwarau 223
• The korimako and the flax flower 224
• Fantail 2 225
• Tui-tui-tuitui-a 226
• At the white sands of Parengarenga 227
• A prayer for graduation 230
• Koru 232
• Dear Te Makahi Robert 233
• Ngā tamariki 236
• Tell me 236
• Give 237
• Little Matariki 238
• Dr. Seuss / Tākuta Tītaha 238
• Aroha 239
• The seven stars of Matariki 240
• Culture 242
• Weherua 243
• Te wherowhero first Māori king 244
• Pounamu 245
• Poroporoaki 246
• E tū i mua o te rā 247

Haare Williams grew up with his Tuhoe grandparents on the shores of Ohiwa Harbour in a te reo world of Tane and Tangaroa, Te Kooti and the old testament, of Nani Wai and curried cockle stew - a world that Haare left behind when he learnt English at school and moved to Auckland. Over the last half-century, through the Maori arts movement, waves of protest and the rise of Maori broadcasting, Haare Williams has witnessed and played a part in the changing shape of Maoridom. And in his poetry and prose, in te reo Maori and English, Haare has a unique ability to capture both the wisdom of te ao Maori and the transformation of that world. This book, edited and introduced by Witi Ihimaera, brings together the poetry and prose of Haare Williams to produce a work that is a biography of the man and his times. The book is a celebration of a kaumatua and an exemplar of his wisdom.
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Haare Williams grew up with his Tuhoe grandparents on the shores of Ohiwa Harbour in a te reo world of Tane and Tangaroa, Te Kooti and the old testament, of Nani Wai and curried cockle stew - a world that Haare left behind when he learnt English at school and moved to Auckland. Over the last half-century, through the Maori arts movement, waves of protest and the rise of Maori broadcasting, Haare Williams has witnessed and played a part in the changing shape of Maoridom. And in his poetry and prose, in te reo Maori and English, Haare has a unique ability to capture both the wisdom of te ao Maori and the transformation of that world. This book, edited and introduced by Witi Ihimaera, brings together the poetry and prose of Haare Williams to produce a work that is a biography of the man and his times. The book is a celebration of a kaumatua and an exemplar of his wisdom.
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A lively, stimulating and engaging retelling of purakau - Maori myths - by contemporary Maori writers. Ka mua, ka muri . . . Ancient Maori creation myths, portrayals of larger-than-life heroes and tales of engrossing magical beings have endured through the ages. Some hail back to Hawaiki, some are firmly grounded in New Zealand and its landscape. Through countless generations, the stories have been reshaped and passed on. This new collection presents a wide range of traditional myths that have been retold by some of our best Maori wordsmiths. The writers have added their own creativity, perspectives and sometimes wonderfully unexpected twists, bringing new life and energy to these rich, spellbinding and significant taonga. Take a fresh look at Papatuanuku, a wild ride with Maui, or have a creepy encounter with Ruruhi-Kerepo, for these and many more mythical figures await you. Explore the past, from it shape the future . . . The contributors are- Jacqueline Carter, David Geary, Patricia Grace, Briar Grace-Smith, Whiti Hereaka, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Kelly Joseph, Hemi, Kelly, Nic Low, Tina Makereti, Kelly Ana Morey, Paula Morris, Frazer Rangihuna, Renee, Robert Sullivan, Apirana Taylor, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Clayton Te Kohe, Hone Tuwhare, Briar Wood.
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