Hastings District Libraries

Listed here are various websites to assist with you research in Māori related subjects.

• Local Links
• Biography
• Government
• Health
• Indexes
• Land
• Law
• Matariki
• Media & Publications
• Military
• Statistics
• Te Reo
• Treaty of Waitangi

Local Links

• Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi
  www.kahungunu.iwi.nz 

• Te Reo Irirangi o Ngāti Kahungunu - Radio Kahungunu 
  www.kahungunu.irirangi.net

Biography

• Nga Tāngata Taumata Rau  - Dictionary of NZ Biography -  contains biographies, photos,  illustrations of Māori
  Now found at Te Ara : The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
  www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies

Government

• Te Puni Kokiri - Ministry of Māori Development
  www.tpk.govt.nz/en
   
• New Zealand Government - Māori
  newzealand.govt.nz/browse/maori  

Health 

• Ministry of Health - Māori Health:  www.maorihealth.govt.nz
  • Whānau Ora updates: www.maorihealth.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagesma/568   

Indexes

• Index of Māori Names
  www.waikato.ac.nz/library/resources/nzc/fletcher
  University of Waikato's on line version of Henry James Fletcher's vast index of names of boundaries, Māori individuals, canoes, trees, landmarks and geographical locations.
  
  Fletcher indexed these Māori names from nine books including the Ancient History of the Maori, Old Whanganui, the first volume of the Lore of the Whare Wānanga, and from the first 19 volumes of the Journal of the Polynesian Society, the first 42 volumes of the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, seven essays from the Transactions and nine Dominion Museum Bulletins.

Land

• Te Kooti Whenua Māori - Māori Land Court
  www.justice.govt.nz/courts/maori-land-court

• Search Maori Land Online (Ministry of Justice)
  www.maorilandonline.govt.nz/gis/owner/interestSearch.htm
  

• Māori Land Legislation Timeline, 1840-1998 - a chronological list of Māori land legislation & important events effecting land legislation.
  The University of Auckland
  www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/maori/guides/maori-land-timeline.html   

• Te Puni Kōkiri - Māori Land Information
  www.tpk.govt.nz/en/services/land

Law

• See Māori Land Legislation Timeline above.
   
• Māori Law Review
  www.tpk.govt.nz/en/services/land

Matariki

• Te Ara
  www.teara.govt.nz/en/matariki-maori-new-year

Media & Publications

• Māori Television
  www.maoritelevision.com

• Te Ao Hou - The New World - digitised & searchable
  teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/index.html

• New Zealand Electronic Text Centre - NZETC. Thousands of history texts, fully searchable, set of images and full-ext books, manuscripts and journals. 
  www.nzetc.org

Military

• The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War - includes online version of 28 (Maori) Battalion:
  www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-WH2.html

Statistics

• Statistics New Zealand - Māori Statistics
  www.stats.govt.nz/publications/maoriadvisory/maori-statistics.aspx

Te Reo

• Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori - Māori Language Commission
  www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/maori/index.shtml

• Kōrero Māori - for everyone wh want to speak the Māori language, or learn more about it
  www.koreromaori.co.nz
   

Treaty of Waitangi 

• See our Treaty of Waitangi - Te Tiriti of Waitangi page