Tēnā koe Hēmi Kāwana : a Ngāti Maniapoto half-caste from Kihikihi greets Mr James Cowan / by Paul Meredith

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Tēnā koe Hēmi Kāwana : a Ngāti Maniapoto half-caste from Kihikihi greets Mr James Cowan / by Paul Meredith

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National Library of New Zealand

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Index New Zealand

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Explores and evaluates, from an iwi/Māori perspective, the presence of journalist/historian James Cowan (aka Hēmi Kāwana) in the early 20th-century collection and recording of Ngāti Maniapoto's tribal knowledge, past narratives and Pākehā encounter history on the 'frontier' border around the Pūniu River. Covers the extent to which Cowan empathised, identified with, and participated in the lives of the Māori people he studied, and recognised them as subjects and not objects of their history. ...

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Journal

Date created

2015

Creator

Meredith, Paul, (DVC Māori, Victoria University of Wellington)

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/35799254

Related subjects

Oral history -- Sources / Ngāti Maniapoto (New Zealand people) / Cowan, James, 1870-1943 / Social history / Local history

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