by Danny Keenan | Jul 29, 2017 | Hidden Article, Published Works
Danny’s PhD was completed in the Department of History, Massey University, Palmerston North in 1994. The thesis examined the activities of the Native Land Court in Taranaki from 1865 to about the 1880s. The PhD was entitled Haere Whakamua Hoki Whakamuri. Going...
by Danny Keenan | Jul 6, 2017 | Wars without End
The New Zealand Wars, say most historians, ended in 1872. Militarily speaking, this makes sense because the last shots were fired on 14 February 1872 at Mangaone, on the East Coast of the North Island. But for Māori, the wars never ended, with the conflicts over land...
by Danny Keenan | Jun 25, 2017 | Hidden Article
This movie isn’t quite a New Zealand Wars movie; in fact, it’s set in the 1990s. But it bears a lot of resemblance to the earlier movie UTU, released in 1984. In fact, Crooked Earth seems to be a modern retelling of UTU. Crooked Earth , released...
by Danny Keenan | Jun 18, 2017 | Hidden Article
Frontier Tales was a documentary filmed in Auckland, in 2002. The interiors and interviews were shot at the Auckland Museum, with the exteriors filmed on a secluded film set just west of Auckland. The programme was produced by Kay Elmers and Ray Lillis, who also wrote...
by Danny Keenan | Jun 16, 2017 | Hidden Article
The latest movie by acclaimed New Zealand director Toa Fraser, The Dead Lands is totally in Māori, appropriately since the action occurs in the days before Europe encountered New Zealand. The movie was released in New Zealand in 2014. James Rolleston (Hongi) and...
