Huia Come Home
Huia Come Home

Author: J. Ruka

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781877487996

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Once the sacred guardian of New Zealand¿s native forests, the huia was a symbol of the land¿s unique beauty and spirituality. The rare bird¿s tragic extinction in the early 1900s represents a shot to the heart of Aotearoa and is a potent metaphor for a country¿s conflicted history. Using the story of the untimely extinction of the huia, Jay Ruka offers a fresh perspective on the narrative of Aotearoa; a tale of two cultures, warring worldviews, and the things we lost in translation. Revisiting the early missionaries, the transformative message of the gospel and the cultural missteps of the Treaty of Waitangi, Huia Come Home invites us to reconnect with the unique story offered by the indigenous Maori lens.

Tikanga Maori (Revised Edition)
Tikanga Maori (Revised Edition)

Author: Hirini Moko Mead

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1775503208

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Tikanga Maori is the authoritative and accessible introduction to understanding the correct Maori ways of doing things as they were done in the past, as they are done in the present - and as they may yet be.In this revised edition, Hirini Mead has added an extensive new chapter on mana whenua, mana moana, Maori authority over land and ocean, and the different interpretations and applications of mana whenua and mana moana historically and today.Hirini Mead has also updated the section on tangihanga to include contemporary issues about cremation choices and what happens to the deceased in Maori/non-Maori partnerships where there are disputes about following tangi tikanga or Pakeha traditions.The remainder of the book explores how tikanga Maori may influence contemporary life and society, and Hirini Mead proposes guidelines to help us test appropriate responses to challenges that may yet be laid down.

Project Huia
Project Huia

Author: Des Hunt

Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1775431762

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As children, Logan’s grandfather and his sister Mavis spotted a beautiful and unusual bird in the kowhai tree outside their house: it was a huia, which was believed to be extinct. In an attempt to photograph it they tracked it deep into the Manawatu Gorge. This was a dangerous journey, made even more so when the Carson boys got wind of their mission and decided to try and find the bird first so they could shoot it and sell its highly valuable feathers. More than 60 years later, 11-year-old Logan has returned to the Manawatu with Grandpop and a scientist to try to solve the mystery of what happened to the huia all those years ago. Can the group rely on Grandpop’s version of events, and find the huia’s final resting place? Will the huia still be there, and will its DNA still be valuable for scientific research into NZ’s native fauna? Not if the Carsons have anything to do with it …

The Pōrangi Boy
The Pōrangi Boy

Author: Shilo Kino

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2020-10-23

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1775505006

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Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring – and a taniwha named Taukere. The government wants to build a prison over the home of the taniwha, and Niko’s grandfather is busy protesting. People call him pōrangi, crazy, but when he dies, it’s up to Niko to convince his community that the taniwha is real and stop the prison from being built. With help from his friend Wai, Niko must unite his whānau, honour his grandfather and stand up to his childhood bully.

12 Huia Birds
12 Huia Birds

Author: Julian Stokoe

Publisher: Oratia Books

Published: 2016-09

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780947506124

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12 beautiful huia birds play and sing in the forest. But is that a canoe arriving? A rat sniffling? A ship on the horizon? One by one, the huia start to disappear - what will remain? 12 Huia Birds is a captivating and uplifting celebration of one of our loveliest birds by an exciting author-illustrator team. Through gentle rhyme and colourful imagery it subtly conveys an environmental message - and includes links to a 12 Huia Birds app, educational resources and games.

Flight of the Huia
Flight of the Huia

Author: Kerry-Jayne Wilson

Publisher: Virago Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13:

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This book tells the story of New Zealands birds, mammals, reptiles and frogs, from their Gondwanan origins to the arrival of the first rats, then people and their camp followers. The loss of now-extinct birds and the introduction of other species have changed ecological systems in this country for ever.

Hīkoi
Hīkoi

Author: Aroha Harris

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781869691011

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What have Maori been protesting about? What has been achieved? This book provides an overview of the contemporary Maori protest 'movement', a summary of the rationale behind the actions, and a wonderful collection of photographs of the action u the protests, the marches and the toil behind the scenes. And it provides a glimpse of the fruits of that protest u the Waitangi Tribunal and the opportunity to prepare, present and negotiate Treaty settlements; Maori language made an official language; Maori-medium education; Maori health providers; iwi radio and, in 2004, Maori television.

Earth, sea, sky
Earth, sea, sky

Author: Patricia Grace

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781877283994

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Translations and explanations of Māori poetry and traditional wisdom are presented with photographs of New Zealand landscape.

Legacy
Legacy

Author: Whiti Hereaka

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1775503607

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Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, Gemma, who has suddenly stopped seeing or texting him. But on his way to see her, he’s hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he’s living through his great-great-grandfather’s experiences in the Māori Contingent. At the same time that Riki tries to make sense of what’s happening and find a way home, we go back in time and read transcripts of interviews Riki’s great-great-grandfather gave in 1975 about his experiences in this war and its impact on their family. Gradually we realise the fates of Riki and his great-great-grandfather are intertwined.

Home: Here to Stay
Home: Here to Stay

Author: Mere Kepa

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1775502724

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This is a collection of twelve academic essays that consider understandings of home and the impact of dominant societies on indigenous societies and their homes. The book covers home and language preservation, homelessness, retention of land, tobacco use in the home, loss of home through trauma and natural disaster, ageing and health, and the meaning of home. This is the third book in the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Edited Collections series.