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Biography: Rata, Matiu Waitai

Links and sources

Websites

Matiu Rata documentary

Listen to this audio documentary, Insight 1988, on Matiu Rata, on the Radio New Zealand website.

Bibliography

Durie, Mason. Te mana, te kāwanatanga: the politics of Māori self-determination. Auckland, 1998.

Harris, Aroha. Hīkoi: forty years of Māori protest. Wellington, 2004.

Hazlehurst, Kayleen. Political expression and ethnicity: statecraft and mobilisation in the Māori world. Westport (Connecticut), 1993.

McDowell, Tiopira. ‘Te ana o te raiona: Māori political movements and the Māori seats in Parliament, 1867–2008.’ PhD thesis, Auckland, 2013.

Scholtz, Christa. Negotiating claims: the emergence of indigenous land claim negotiation policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. New York, 2006.

Walker, Ranginui. Ka whawhai tonu mātou: struggle without end. Revised edition. Auckland, 2004.

How to cite this page

Tiopira McDowell. 'Rata, Matiu Waitai', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/231202/sources (accessed 24 June 2026).