Story: Māori non-fiction and scholarship – ngā tuhinga me te rangahau

More links and websites

• The Journal of the Polynesian Society

  The Polynesian Society’s website includes issues of the Journal dating back to 1892.

• Kōmako

  A bibliography of writing by Māori in English. The website's search function allows you to browse by category, including non-fiction works.

• Māori newspapers

  Information about Māori newspapers by Nicola Frean, from the 1997 book Book and print in New Zealand, on the site of the Electronic Text Collection at Victoria University of Wellington.

• Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga

  A Māori centre of research excellence established in 2002.

• Ngā reo o ngā niupepa: Māori language newspapers 1855–1863

  Lachlan Paterson’s 2004 PhD thesis from the University of Otago (PDF, 29 MB).

• Niupepa: Māori newspapers

  Digitised copies of Māori newspapers, with English abstracts for some titles.

More suggestions and sources

• Curnow, Jenifer, Ngapare Hopa and Jane McRae, eds. Rere atu, taku manu! Discovering history, language and politics in the Māori-language newspapers. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.
• Della Valle, Paola. From silence to voice: the rise of Māori literature. Auckland: Libro International, 2010.
• Orbell, Margaret. Letters to the mountain: Māori letters to the editor, 1898–1905: He reta ki te maunga. Auckland: Reed Books, 2002.
• Ngata, Āpirana Turupa. Ngā mōteatea: he maramara rere nō ngā waka maha. 4 vols. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004–7.
• Paterson, Lachy. Colonial discourses: niupepa Māori 1855–1863. Otago: Otago University Press, 2006.