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I Whanau Au Ki Kaiapoi: The Story of Natanahira Wa by Te Maire Tau

ISBN: 9781877578120 PUBLISHER: Otago University Press FORMAT: Paperback

PUBLICATION DATE: 16.02.2012 DIMENSIONS: 155mmX230mmX9mm 238grams

DESCRIPTION: Natanahira Waruwarutu was a child at the time of the capture of Kaiapoi Pa by Te Rauparaha's Ngati Toa warriors in 1832. The early years of his life, recounted here in the original Maori text and a parallel translation, were a turbulent time for the Maori communities of Waitaha (Canterbury) and Akaroa. Otakou leaders set aside Moeraki, further south, for Kaiapoi refugees and Waruwarutu moved between the two places until he died in 1895. Before his death, he passed on to scribe Thomas Green, himself a Ngai Tahu elder, a substantial body of material that now defines modern understanding of the traditional history of Ngai Tahu. This manuscript was part of that material and, as Te Maire Tau describes in his introduction, has a history of its own. The story in this book is not a Ngai Tahu 'grand narrative'. As Te Maire Tau says, Maori history simply does not work like that. Rather, it is one narrative by a survivor of the period that 'recollects the reality of what he saw as a child; on this basis, it is a superb example of an oral tradition'. The author has included a chapter on the historical context of the Waruwarutu manuscript and annotations for both Maori and English texts. A further chapter presents in Maori with English translation a text recorded by scribe Charles Creed that supplements Waruwarutu's account of his induction into the Kaiapoi whare pirakau (house of learning). It is one of the few manu

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