Story: Waikato tribes
Page 8. External links and sources
More links and websites
Official website for Tainui tribal information
This website features news and links to related websites.
Origins of the Māori King movement
This NZ History site article provides a good overview of the origins and history of the King movement.
Te Kingitanga – the Māori King movement
On the NZ History site, this feature outlines the history of the Māori King movement and gives information on successive monarchs.
More suggestions and sources
- He korero purakau mo nga taunahanahatanga a nga tupuna: place names of the ancestors, a Maori oral history atlas. Wellington: New Zealand Geographic Board, 1990.
- Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, and Bruce Biggs. Nga iwi o Tainui. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.
- Kirkwood, Carmen. Tāwhiao: king or prophet. Huntly: MAI Systems, 2001.
- Te Kīngitanga: the people of the Maori King movement. Auckland: Auckland University Press/Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1996.
How to cite this page
Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, Waikato tribes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/20444/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).
Story by Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, published 22 September 2012, updated 1 March 2017.