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Haurongo: Rata, Matiu Waitai

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Pae tukutuku

Matiu Rata documentary

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

Rārangi pukapuka

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.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Tiopira McDowell. 'Rata, Matiu Waitai', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/231202/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).