Ora: Healing Ourselves - Indigenous knowledge, Healing and Wellbeing by Leonie Pihama, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
65.00 NZD
Category: Health
This collection brings together indigenous thinkers and practitioners from Aotearoa and internationally to discuss the effects of trauma on indigenous peoples across social, economic, political and cultural environments. The authors explore understandings and practices of indigenous people, grounded in ...Show more
Te Taiao Maori and The Natural World by Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
50.00 NZD
Category: Māori - Issues | Reading Level: very good
In traditional Maori knowledge, the weather, birds, fish and trees, sun and moon are related to each other, and to the people of the land, the tangata whenua. It is truly an interconnected world - a vast family of which humans are children of the earth and sky, and cousins to all living things. In this ...Show more
Māori Made Easy Pocket Guide by Scotty Morrison
24.00 NZD
Category: Māori - Language
Everything you need to speak te reo Māori with confidence This pocket-sized book is your guide to using te reo Māori in every day situations, from introductions to conversations, online and in person. Carry the essentials with you, and develop confidence in: * Basic pronunciation * Greetings * Dates and ...Show more
Matariki The Maori New Year by Libby Hakaraia
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Māori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was gree ...Show more
Pounamu Treasures - Ngā Taonga Pounamu by Russell Beck; Maika Mason
35.00 NZD
Category: Māori - History | Reading Level: very good
Pounamu, or jade, is one of New Zealand's most treasured natural resources, celebrated for its rich beauty and significance to the Māori people. Pounamu Treasures - Ngā Taonga Pounamu is a simple and stylish collection of object photographs that honours the stone in its many forms. Respected pounamu spe ...Show more
Those Magnificent Voyagers of the Pacific by Andrew Crowe
35.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
This epic story begins 5000 years ago, when the ancestors of Polynesians discovered ways to ‘see’ over the horizon to find and settle new islands. As their landfinding skills grew, these people took ever bigger strides across the vast Pacific until they reached South America. It was not until almost eve ...Show more
Waka Taua: The Maori War Canoe by Jeff Evans
35.00 NZD
Category: Māori - History
A Maori war canoe being paddled at full speed is an awesome sight. Thanks to the renaissance in canoe building, more and more traditional waka taua are on the waterways, and feature in major events like the Queen's Jubilee. Waka Taua gives a concise introduction to all aspects of the war canoe: its hist ...Show more
Maori Made Easy Workbook 3/Kete 3 by Scotty Morrison
25.00 NZD
Category: Māori - Language
The accessible guide to learning the Maori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Maori Made Easy workbook series is the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Maori language. While dictionaries list words a ...Show more
English/Maori-Maori/EnglishDictionary by Bruce Biggs
25.00 NZD
Category: Māori - Language
This English-Maori and Maori-English dictionary has over 4000 entries in each section. It provides information on parts of speech; practical help with pronunciation of Maori words; and it relates to contemporary life by including words from English commonly used by today's Maori speakers.
Maori Made Easy Workbook 8/Kete 8 by Scotty Morrison
25.00 NZD
Category: Māori - Language
The accessible guide to learning the Maori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Maori Made Easy workbook series is the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Maori language. While dictionaries list words a ...Show more
Te Marae: A Guide to Customs and Protocol by Pat Tauroa; Hiwi Tauroa
25.00 NZD
Category: Māori - Issues
A guide - complete with glossary - to customs, protocol and etiquette for visitors to New Zealand marae.Hiwi and Pat Tauroa outline the sequence of events that begins when visitors arrive at the gates of a marae and ends with their departure. Appropriate behaviour is described at each stage; the spiritu ...Show more
Nuku: Stories of 100 Indigenous Women by Qiane Matata-Sipu
65.00 NZD
Category: Māori
NUKU is a powerful and important snapshot of Indigenous wāhine today. Through wide-ranging voices this ambitious social documentary showcases diverse representations of leadership, systems change and success. Readers obtain authentic insight into life as an Indigenous woman in a way like never before. ...Show more