Biography: Heke Pōkai, Hōne Wiremu
Links and sources
Websites
The governor (1977) on NZonScreen
Watch a dramatisation of the events surrounding the signing of Te Tiriti ō Waitangi in 1840 and its aftermath, featuring George Henare as Hōne Heke Pōkai. The governor was a landmark television series about the life of Sir George Grey, and was both ambitious and highly controversial at the time of its release.
Bibliography
Belich, J. The New Zealand wars. Auckland, 1986
Buick, T. L. New Zealand's first war. Wellington, 1926
Burrows, R. Extracts from a diary kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's war in the north in 1845. Auckland, 1886
Rutherford, J. Hone Heke's rebellion. Auckland, 1947
Wards, I. The shadow of the land. Wellington, 1968