Story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri

More links and websites

• Uenuku or Kahukura: the rainbow god of war (part I)

  The first part of a 1959 article on Māori methods of warfare by Tuta Nihoniho, an officer in the Ngāti Porou Native Contingent during the late 18th century.

• Uenuku or Kahukura: the rainbow god of war (part II)

  The second part of a 1959 article by Tuta Nihoniho on Māori warfare.

• Warfare of the Maori

  An article by E. G. Schwimmer in Te Ao Hou journal from 1961.

More suggestions and sources

• Belich, James. Making peoples, a history of the New Zealanders: from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century. Auckland: Penguin, 2007.
• Best. Elsdon. Notes on the art of war: as conducted by the Maori of New Zealand. Auckland: Reed in Association with the Polynesian Society, 2001.
• Haami, Bradford. ‘Māori traditional warfare.’ In The Oxford companion to New Zealand Military History, edited by Ian McGibbon, pp. 303–307: Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Vayda, A. P. Maori warfare. Wellington: Reed for the Polynesia Society, 1970.
• Walker, Ranginui. Ka whawhai tonu mātou: struggle without end. Auckland: Penguin, 2004.