by Danny Keenan | Mar 19, 2017 | Changing Landscapes
New Zealand possess countless historic sites which commemorate past conflicts fought on our own soil. The cross on the site of the Te Ngutu O Te Manu battle site (right), near Hawera, is a good example. . However, we also have other sites and memorials around our...
by Danny Keenan | Oct 24, 2016 | Campaigns
This area, South Taranaki especially, remained on an uneasy war-footing after 1860 after members of Ngāti Ruanui travelled north to support Te Ātiawa during the Waitara war. Ngāti Ruanui had returned south after the war and, unhappy at what had happened at Waitara,...
by Danny Keenan | Apr 1, 2016 | Remembering the Dead
Māori ‘rebels’ who fought against the British Army and Armed Constabulary during the Land Wars may soon be officially recognised. Recent calls have been made for the government to remember all Māori war veterans, not just those who fought overseas on the...
by Danny Keenan | Jan 29, 2016 | Student Queries
Many secondary schools now teach the New Zealand Wars as an essential component of Year 12 or Year 13 history, with students undertaking research as to causes and consequences in particular. Setting a good research question often turns on what evidence is readily...
by Danny Keenan | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorised
Global Native Wars Waging war against Native peoples has of course been a constant part of colonization which spread from Europe to the Americas and in time to the rest of the globe. Wars afflicted native peoples throughout the Americas, Pacific and Oceania, Asia...
