Aroha Harris

Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past, from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History. The full text of the big hardback is now available in a reader-friendly edition, ideal for students, for bedtime...

Te Ao Hurihuri: The Changing World shows Māori engaged energetically in building and rebuilding their communities through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Crown policies re-oriented from the acquisition of Māori land to its development. Māori held fiercely to iwi-specific connectedness, community organisation, and te reo me ōna tikanga (the language and its customs). New kinds of Māori institutions released...

An award-winning writer: More than two decades of wide-ranging writing from one of Aotearoa’s most respected Māori historians. Māori history: Essays grounded in the conviction that Māori history — foundational and continuous — connects past, present and people across time. Intimate and expansive: From whānau memory and the teachings of kuia to land struggles and Māori–Crown relationships.