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By 1891, when the Liberal government came to power, Māori retained only a fraction of their lands. And still the losses continued. DANNY KEENAN (Ngāti Te Whiti ki
Te Ātiawa) completed a PhD in history at Massey University in 1994 and became a senior lecturer there in 2004. In 2009 he won a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to teach New Zealand history at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He has published widely on Māori and New Zealand history.
For over two decades, Māori men and women of outstanding ability fought hard to protect their people and their land. How those rangatira fared, and how they should be remembered, is the story of Māori political struggle during the Liberal era.
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DA N N Y K E E N A N
In 2016, Te Whiti O Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka (Huia, 2015) received a Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Award, and his 2009 book Wars Without End Ngā Pakanga Whenua o Mua: New Zealand’s Land Wars — a Māori perspective was revised and reissued in 2021.
For rangatira such as James Carroll, Wiremu Pere, Pāora Tūhaere, Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, and many others, the challenges were innumerable. To stop further land loss, some rangatira saw parliamentary process as the mechanism; others pursued political independence.
The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira
In the second half of the nineteenth century, settlers poured into Aotearoa demanding land. Millions of acres were acquired by the government or directly by settlers; or confiscated after the Land Wars.
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira Māori Political Struggle in the Liberal Era 1891–1912
Front cover: The first meeting of the Takitimu Maori Council, 10 June 1902. In 1900, twentytwo Māori council districts were established across the country to address urgent health and sanitation issues affecting pā and papa kāinga. The Takitimu Council stands in front of Te Poho o Rawiri, Gisborne. Front row seated from left: Mr Brooking, Otene Pitau. Front row standing: Takina of Kaiti, Charles Ferris of Gisborne, Hetekia Te Kane Pere of Gisborne, Paratene Tatae of Manutuke, Hemi Tutapu, Matenga Taihuka Te Kooti (far right). Back row: Hapi Hinaki of Whangara, Paora Kohu of Muriwai, Pewhairangi of Tokomaru Bay, Rangi of Tolaga Bay, Arani Kunaiti of Te Reinga. ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY, 1/2-044563-F
Back cover: Kemp’s Pole and two unidentified men, Raorikia, Whanganui district, c.1880s. This was one of four poles erected by Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui (Major Kemp) at Raorikia in November 1880, on the borders of the lands that were to be held in trust for Te Āti Haunuia-Pāpārangi of Whanganui. Only one of the poles stands today, near Mataika Pā. ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY, 1/1-000478-G
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