More links and websites
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Bridge and Barrier
The Bridge and Barrier project explores the transformation of Māori culture in central New Zealand from first human arrival until the beginning of organised European settlement.
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Proverbial and popular sayings of the Maori
In this 1955 article from Te Ao Hou, H. T. M. Wikiriwhi explains a story about aruhe (fern root) and other food resources.
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E pakihi hakinga a kai: an examination of pre-contact resource management practice in Southern Te Wai Pounamu
Jim Williams’s PhD thesis (2004) includes an in-depth look at traditional Ngāi Tahu economics.
More suggestions and sources
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Ballara, Angela. Iwi: the dynamics of Māori tribal organisation from c. 1769 to c. 1945. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1998.
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Belich James. Making peoples: a history of the New Zealanders: from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century. Auckland: Penguin, 2007.
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Dalley, Bronwyn, and Gavin McLean, eds. Frontier of dreams: the story of New Zealand. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 2005.
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Davidson, Janet. The prehistory of New Zealand. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1987.
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Firth, Raymond. Economics of the New Zealand Maori. Wellington: Government Printer, 1972 (originally published 1929).
