by Danny Keenan | Aug 14, 2011 | Wars Library
A History of the Māori Trust Boards This book was commissioned by Te Puni Kokiri and Minister Naiah Mahuta in 2020. The book is currently going thrū production and will be launched sometime in 2024-2025. The Māori Trust Boards are interesting because the...
by Danny Keenan | Sep 15, 2010 | Campaigns
‘The Last Shots Fired in the New Zealand Wars’ Maungapohatu is a small village situated deep in the Urewera National Park, customary home of the Tuhoe people. The Urewera region, which is very isolated and covered with dense bush, was the last area...
by Danny Keenan | Jul 28, 2010 | Wars Library
Many really good books have been published recently which touch on the New Zealand Wars, or deal with related but much broader aspects of New Zealand history, or cover very interesting aspects of Māori history. Some of these books are shown here – place your...
by Danny Keenan | Jul 10, 2010 | Histories of Māori
Recent moves to change the language on century-old monuments in Whanganui have been antagonising some local people. Plans to ‘update’ colonial descriptions of Māori have been ridiculed in the local press. Words like fanaticism and barbarism are due to be...
by Danny Keenan | Dec 26, 2009 | Flying the Fern
Maori opinion on such an issue as Māori nationhood was quite divergent. Maori were always conscious of historical issues, politics and the Treaty. Despite the high rhetoric of the 1990 commemoration – ‘a year to remember, to reflect and to look ahead to a new horizon’...
