Ngā Kākano Mātauranga o Waitakere
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Mihi
Ko ngā raupo ā maki
tu te ao, tu te po
ko ngā rarangi tangata
whakangaro
e ngā maunga, e ngā awa, e ngā matā waka
o te motu tēnā koutou katoa
he mihi tēnei kia koutou
e ngā rangatira kua eke mai
ki roto i ngā pataka korero
o te rohe o Waitakere me kī
ngā kākano mātauranga o Waitakere
nau mai haere mai whakatau mai
he pukenga ēnei ma te hunga e
whai ana i te mātauranga
Tihe Mauriora! |
The many posts of Maki (Waitakere Ranges)
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that stand tall in the day and also at night
but a line or people
will be lost
to the many mountains, to the many rivers, to the many canoes
of Aotearoa I salute you
this is a greeting to you all
to the many people that come
to this store house of knowledge
within this area o Waitakere
the seeds of knowledge within Waitakere
welcome, welcome, welcome
there are great resources here for people
in search of great knowledge
I acknowledge your spiritual being!
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Nga kakano matauranga o Waitakere: Te reo Maori resources
Waitakere Libraries is promoting the search tools we have available to help you
connect with Maori Resources within your library. Search the
Waitakere Libraries
Catalogue in te reo Maori or click on
the following links to connect directly with nga rauemi Maori i te reo Maori,
via the english portal.
We are currently in the process of updating all of our Maori Collections with a
new colour-coded kowhaiwhai stickering system. This tool is to help the
community to identify te reo Maori and bi-lingual items at a glance (on the
shelf).
We are proud to be the first public library system across Tamaki Makaurau to
implement this simple, yet effective system of identification.
Kaiwhakahaere Māori/Māori Services Librarian
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The Kaiwhakahaere/ Māori Services Librarian,
Rachelle Forbes is based in Tari Tohutoru/ The
Reference Department on level 2 at
Waitakere Central Library
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Kaiwhakahaere Māori acts as kaitiaki, or guardian, of the Māori
Collections within Waitakere Libraries. Kaiwhakahaere Māori promotes the use of
libraries to Māori and helps with accessibility to Māori resources in Waitakere
City and is available to assist with access to these collections, research
inquiries and library user education.
For further assistance
Kaiwhakahaere/Māori Services Librarian.
Kohinga pukapuka taonga Māori/Māori Reference
Collection
Kohinga pukapuka taonga Māori/Māori Reference Collection is housed
in Tari Tohutoru/The Reference Department, level 2, Waitakere Central Library.
This is the most extensive collection of Māori resources throughout Waitakere
Libraries. Although these resources may not leave the room, duplicate
copies of most items are available for request should you require a borrowing
copy. Photocopy facilities are also available.
Te Whare Runanga/Māori Research Room
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The Whare Runanga is a special room off Tari Tohutoru/ The Reference Department. This room has been blessed by our kaumatua and
is a space dedicated to Māori research, in particularly whakapapa. Also available in this room is audio visual equipment for access
to our Māori multi media resources which include
New Zealand Television Archive footage, Māori CDS, DVDS and videos.
Whakapapa ResearchWhakapapa resources in our Māori Collection's include:
Whakapapa: an introduction to Māori family history research
Te haurapa: an introduction to researching tribal histories and traditions
Layer upon layer: whakapapa
Researching whakapapa at Archives New Zealand, Head Office, Wellington
Whakapapa Video
The New Zealand Society of Genealogists have a
Maori
Interest Group. Their official site is valuable resource which
includes links to several avenues of interest in regard to Whakapapa Research.
The Waitakere Branch of the New Zealand
Society of Genealogists have a collection of books, indexes, magazines and
microfiche available for use in the Reference Department of
Waitakere Central
Library.
For an appointment for further assistance please contact Lani Rimington on (09)
818-2161.
Iwi Map
The Iwi map has been designed to help access information on different Iwi,
hapu histories and whakapapa.
Click on a region to see a list of hapu/Iwi appear below. Then click on
specific hapu/Iwi to link to available resources.
Please note: This map only shows the hapu/Iwi we have
information and resources on at Waitakere Library and Information Services.
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Ngā pukapuka o te kooti whenua Māori/Māori Land Court Minute Books
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Te Kooti Whenua Māori/
Māori Land Courts were established by the
Government in 1865 to investigate disputes over Māori land ownership. The courts
have become infamous for their part in the alienation of enormous amounts of
tribal land. Under British Law, no land could be sold without the consent of the
owners. In New Zealand this caused considerable problems for Pakeha land buyers,
as all tribal land was owned communally. The Land Courts were set up to
establish the ownership of tracts of land and to enable the assignment of the
land to individual owners. Counter-claims were also dealt with in the Land
Courts.
One positive legacy of the Land Courts are the Minute Books. These contain a
wealth of information as claimants submitted their evidence in the form of
tribal histories and traditions, all of which were recorded, usually in te reo
Māori. Detailed information about Māori history, land and whakapapa can be
found.
Auckland University created The Māori Land Court Minute Books database.
It covers the period 1865-1910 and indexes all Minute Books from the
Māori land
court districts: Te Taitokerau, Waikato/ Maniapoto, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu,
Te Tairawhiti and Te Waipounamu. It is a key tool for searching to find
information in the Minute Books.
The
Māori Land Court Minute Books (on microfilm) and the Māori Land Court
database are available in Tari Tohutoru/ The Reference Department, level 2,
Waitakere Central Library.
Te Kāwanatanga me ngā Rauemi Mātauranga/Official Government Publications
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Official
government publications are of great value to Māori as they contain a number of important resources, such as whakapapa, speeches from Māori leaders, tribal histories and much more.
Appendices to Journals of the House of Representatives
(AJHR) The appendices to these government documents are a treasure trove of information and an excellent resource for historians and genealogists. They include such things as photographs of Ohinemutu Pa and Whakarewarewa. Published since the 1850s, the journals contain reports from Government departments and commissions, including petitions and letters from Māori and reports on the sale and confiscation of tribal land. The most useful information is found in the early volumes, pre 1888.
Parliamentary Debates and speeches recorded from Parliament since 1854.
New Zealand Gazette Printed weekly since 1840, the gazette contains proclamations and official notes of the Government and a variety of supplements, including a list of professionals, such as doctors and engineers.
Raupatu Document Bank
Waitangi Tribunal
researchers have brought a comprehensive range of historical material together
in the
Raupatu (Confiscations)
Document Bank includes published material from the NZ Gazette, AJHR and NZ Statutes as well as the records of the Compensation Court and other quasi-judicial commissions which returned a large proportion of the land initially confiscated in the form of Crown Grants. There are also the records and reports of later Commissions of Inquiry and material from Māori Affairs, Department of Survey and Land Information and other government department files.
The
Raupatu Document Bank consists of government documents and files relating to confiscated lands in South Auckland/Waikato, Taranaki, Tauranga, Opotiki/Whakatane, Gisborne and Hawkes Bay.
Niupepa & Kaipanui/Māori Newspapers and Periodicals
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The first newspaper in te reo Māori was published in 1842, less than two
years after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Niupepa 1842 – 1933
is a collection produced by Alexander Turnbull Library of 34 separate
periodicals which span this period. The collection contains vast amounts of
information concerning historical events.
Niupepa 1842 – 1933
is available on
microfiche and is also available free
online.
Te Iwi o Aotearoa,
Mana Tangata,
Kahungunu,
Te Māori News,
Kia Hiwa Ra,
Kokiri Paetae
and
Pū Kaea are some of the more
recent Māori Newspapers we hold. All complete sets have been and are housed in
the Whare Runanga.
The Journal of the Polynesian Society was established in 1892 and its
journal is still published today. Māori contributors have included Sir Peter
Buck, Sir Apirana Ngata, Henare Potae, Hoani Nahe, Hamiora Pio and Pei Te
Hurinui Jones. Subjects include tribal histories, dialects of the Māori
language, artefacts, crafts and cosmology.
Te Ao Hou was published from 1952 to 1975 by the Māori
Affairs Department. It has now been digitised and all 76 issues are available
free
online. We hold
a number of hard copies
1957- 1969
which are bound and housed in the Whare Runanga.
Mana Magazine,
Tu Mai,
Kokiri,
and
Kai Korero are some of
the Māori magazines in our Māori Reference Collection. There are some lending
copies which are available to borrow.
Journal of the Polynesian SocietyAfter seven years' work, The University of Auckland Library and the Polynesian
Society have completed their project to digitise the first hundred years of back
issues of the Journal of the Polynesian Society.
Volumes 1-100
(1892-1992) are now freely available as
keyword-searchable texts with links to images of the original pages.
The 100 digitised volumes comprise over 3775 individual article-level sections,
more than 40,000 individual pages and around 5000 photographs, drawings and
maps.
The Journal of the Polynesian Society has been the world's premier academic
journal for scholarly articles on the archaeology, anthropology, history and
linguistics of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands, including New
Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Its many seminal articles chart the course of our
growing understanding of the origins and development of human civilizations
across this vast area.
Legal Maori Archive
The Legal Maori Archive has been created in conjunction with Mamari Stephens
from the Victoria University of Wellington's School of Law as part of a project
to establish a corpus of legal Maori documents, which will allow the analysis of
the language and eventually a dictionary of legal Maori terms and concepts. It
is a digitised collection of more than 14,000 pages of around 250 19th century
documents that illustrate the bi-lingual nature of New Zealand's legal history.
It is freely available to the public and can be accessed via the
NZETC website.
Among the many documents featured in this collection are the following:
It is the first time the documents have been brought together in one
place and is the largest collection of separate documents that the New
Zealand Electronic Text Centre has digitised.
Local History Images
Photographed in 1980, Whakaari, (now known as Lion Rock), was a fortified pa
(village) to the local iwi. Te Kawerau a Maki. It is one of many
thousands of photos in Waitakere Libraries local history online collection.
Te Reo Māori Language Resources
These are some of the language resources available through Waitakere Library
and Information Services. Click on the titles to be connected to the catalogue.
Note: You will need to have 
Adobe Acrobat Reader
installed on your computer in order to view and print this document. For
help opening PDF files or tips on copying information see Helpful
Tips.
Te Reo Māori (Size 300K)
Want to learn te reo Maori or build on what you already know?Sign up to receive
He Kupu o te Ra daily emails of new
kupu (words)
Sign up and start next semester's free te reo Maori courses at
Unitec, Waitakere and Mt Albert campuses.
The Maori Language Commission have a list a number of further
Maori language
providers
and their contact details.
For further information on the history of te reo Maori visit the following
sites:
http://www.korero.maori.nz/forlearners/history
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/maori-language-week/history-of-the-maori-language
http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/
http://www.hrc.co.nz/home/hrc/humanrightsenvironment/contactthecommission/maori.php
Location Opening hours for Maori Reference Collection
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| Rā Hina ki te Rā Pare |
Monday - Thursday |
8.30 am - 8.00 pm |
| Rā Mere |
Friday |
8.30 am - 5.00 pm |
| Rā Horoi me te Rā Tapu |
Saturday and Sunday |
10.00 am - 4.00 pm |
Māori Collections in Waitakere Libraries
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Every library branch in Waitakere houses a Māori Collection which includes both adult and junior materials. These collections are
available to borrow at the community libraries below.
Waitakere Central
Massey
New Lynn
Glen Eden
Te Atatu Peninsula
Ranui
Titirangi
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