Churches are cultural and social spaces as much as they are spiritual ones, and Māori have generally felt more comfortable in congregations where their tikanga, reo and identity have been...
When “missionaries” are mentioned, many New Zealanders would automatically think of New Zealand before the Treaty of Waitangi, or perhaps of later missions in Africa and other foreign places.
The regulations for industrial conscription, often called ‘manpowering’, were introduced in early 1942.
As in a number of faiths active among Māori during the Second World War, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints faced challenges through the war, but nevertheless tried...
The summer scholarship students have been one of the most rewarding aspects of the wider Te Hau Kāinga project.
Housing, or rather a lack of it, has been a festering sore in New Zealand for some years, with the current government seemingly unable to fix the problem.
The focus for my research project was Māori in tertiary education during World War II.
The journey I had to finish this report was a long one.
In 1945 Pei Te Hurinui Jones stood as a candidate in the Western Māori seat; the following year he published his Māori translation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.
When the 28 Māori Battalion left for war in 1940, it was perhaps expected that life was to change dramatically upon their return.