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...
by Danny Keenan | Dec 28, 2015 | Flying the Fern
In 1990, Māori people did have one major success to recall. In the decade prior to 1990, Māori art and performance had gone global, via the Te Māori exhibition, with stunning success. By 1990, wrote Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the connections between the Maāri art and...
by Danny Keenan | Sep 15, 2015 | Campaigns
East Coast War 1868-1872 Te Kooti of Rongowhakaata escaped from imprisonment on the Chatham Islands and with adherents was pursued across the breadth of the North Island. A very long and complex war involving multiple alliances of Crown, settlers and Maori pitted...
by Danny Keenan | Jul 30, 2015 | Student Queries
An important part of researching and writing about the New Zealand Wars (or history in general) is to read and research documents.  Documents, letters, official papers, newspapers and diaries – this type of material is called the primary evidence because it was...
