Tohunga, scholar, writer, healer, minister, and philosopher. Born in Awanui. A member of the Tai Tokerau peoples of the north; of Ngai Takoto, Ahipara, and Ngati Warara descent. Māori Marsden was both an ordained Anglican minister and a graduate of the whare wānanga of Te Aupouri. His writing explored pre-Christian theology, understandings of divinity and the Māori worldview, and his Christian faith and vocation. Active in various issues affecting Maori; selections of his speeches were published in 2003 through his estate as 'The Woven Universe: Selected writings of Rev. Maori Marsden'. Member of the 28th Māori Battalion (serial no. 810655). After World War II he became the first Māori chaplain in the New Zealand Navy. One of the original claimants for Ngai Takoto's claim to the Crown. Married to Jane Marsden (née Brown); seven children. Died June 1993 at 69 years.
Marsden, Māori (Rev), 1924?-1993
Te Kawa o te Marae - Discussion with Maori Marsden, Hiko Hohepa, Teariki Mei at Immersi...
Date: 18 May 1984
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHInt-0225/46
Description: Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Paranui Marae Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-1123 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
Recording of Maori Marsden
Date: Recording date unknown
From: Royal, Te Ahukaramu Charles, 1965- : Sound and videorecordings collection
By: Marsden, Māori (Rev), 1924?-1993
Reference: OHInt-0350-24
Description: Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013920 - OHC-013922 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
Te Wananga o Raukawa graduate studies. Maori Marsden
Date: 18-19 Mar 1993 - 18 Mar 1993 - 19 Mar 1993
From: Royal, Te Ahukaramu Charles, 1965- : Sound and videorecordings collection
Reference: OHInt-0350-15
Description: Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013914 - OHC-013918 Quantity: 5 C90 cassette(s). 7.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
Maori Marsden and Terepowai Higgins - Te Reo o Te Upoko o Te Ika
Date: 13 May 1988
From: Royal, Te Ahukaramu Charles, 1965- : Sound and videorecordings collection
By: Marsden, Māori (Rev), 1924?-1993; Higgins, Te Ripowai, active 1989-2012
Reference: OHInt-0350-13
Description: Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013919 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 folder(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available summary notes at OHA-5891.
Reverend Maori Marsden
Date: 11 Novermber 1988
From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings
By: Marsden, Māori (Rev), 1924?-1993; Walker, Piripi, 1955-; Higgins, Te Ripowai, active 1989-2012
Reference: OHInt-0937-0008
Description: A compilation of three recordings featuring Reverend Maori Marsden (Ngāi Takoto), noted Anglican minister, tohunga, and scholar of the Tai Tokerau. Interviewed in the studio by Piripi Walker (Ngāti Raukawa), and other interviewers, and also includes callers on the talkback. Topics include politics, politicians, the Department of Māori Affairs, Te Reo Māori, the Treaty of Waitangi, differences in Māori and Pākehā values. Tape one (OHT7-1125) comprises three segments. The first segment of the item focuses on: a recent hui at Taumutu, Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere), consultation on preliminary work on the Resource Management Act (RMA), the nature of exchange at the time of the signing of Tiriti O Waitangi, property rights, and the current government policy. Includes Maori Marsden talking about his personal experience of returning from World War II and the lack of success for Māori in the land ballots (in te reo Māori). In the second segment of the item, the hosts Piripi Walker and Teripowai Higgins (Ngāi Tūhoe) lead a discussion on learning te reo Māori, talkback caller is Bruce Stewart. Includes discussion of proverbs (in English). In the third segment, talkback caller Jean Puketapu (Ngāi Tūhoe) talks about proverbs, language learning, and curriculum in kura Māori. Tape two (OHT7-1162) features an interview with Māori Marsden by interviewer Te Ripowai Higgins on the Maori Affairs consulation document 'He Tirohanga Rangapū'. Discusses whether the policies are workable, and refers to 'Puao te Atatu'. Recalls the Picot Report. Describes his experience of being educated at a native school. After a waiata break (at 22:43), caller Dawson Birch joins the discussion. The recording ends with caller Mac Hawiki (Ngāi Tuhoe) calling in to the studio. Tape three (OHT7-1167) features the continuation of the interview with Māori Marsden by interviewer Te Ripowai Higgins on the Maori Affairs consulation document 'He Tirohanga Rangapū'. Starts with the continuation of the talkback with caller Mac Hawiki (Ngāi Tuhoe). Māori Marsden refers to Koro Wetere; and memories of Eruera Tirikatene and Peter Fraser. He refers to Harry Dansey and Maori Council involvement in establishing an advisory group for Minister Ralph Hanan. He mentions Jack Hunn. Discussion then turns to a new bill in Parliament allowing police to intervene when there are groups of three or more in the street, and the possible affect on Māori. In the talkback segment: a caller asks for Māori Mardsen's view on the Upper House/Lower House bicameral political model. Marsden describes the Anglican synod's proposals. The second caller Manaaki Whaanga joins the dicussion. The recording concludes with the waiata 'Te Matauranga o Te Pakeha' sung by Tuini Ngawai, Ngoi Pewhairangi and others. Quantity: 1 event(s). 3 7" reel(s). 1.24 Hours and minutes duration. Search dates: 1988
Interview with Reverend Maori Marsden
Date: April or May 1989
From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings
By: Marsden, Māori (Rev), 1924?-1993
Reference: OHInt-0937-0124
Description: Piripi Walker and Nanny Horiana Hakaraia interview Reverend Māori Marsden (Ngāi Takoto) about reforms of the Historic Places Trust, and the need to set up an advisory board for the interests of Māori, relating to the care of historic places associated with Māori. Marsden comments on: his work advising government about the changes, dangers of funding entering the world of restoration, legal restrictions on Māori historic places. A kuia calls in and talks about a cave on ancestral land in Te Tai Tokerau and anxiety over changed stream flow. Nanny Horiana Hakaraia leads a discussion on rahui, in which Marsden explains definition and use of 'rahui' and 'mauri', and Te Hihiri, Te Mahara, Te Whakaaro, Te Wananga, and Hauora. Interviewer(s) - Kura Anderson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT7-1441 Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 1 7" reel(s). 32.05 Minutes and seconds Duration. Search dates: 1989
Reverend Maori Marsden me Piripi Walker
Date: 02 and 12 Apr 1989
From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings
By: Walker, Piripi, 1955-; Marsden, Māori (Rev), 1924?-1993
Reference: OHInt-0937-0141
Description: Interviewer Piripi Walker conducts a two-part interview with Reverend Maori Marsden (Ngāi Takoto). The recording on tape one (OHT7-1460) starts with a Yothu Yindi song, then Piripi Walker talks with Māori Marsden about mauri, the nature of atua Māori, and te mana Māori. Marsden comments on the impulse to search out rituals and atua within traditional Māori religion. He discusses gathering together 'matakite' in Te Tai Tokerau, people with gifts as 'seers', and encouraging them to use their gifts under direction of 'Te Runga Rawa'. Marsden states "Te tino tapu ko te tapu o te wairua, ko Te Wairua Tapu". Tape two (OHT7-1468) opens with the ending of the discussion on ancestral Māori religion, tapu, and Christian thought. Interviewer then announces the death of Rosie Watch from the Far North and announces a poroporoaki for her. Concludes with Christian karakia. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT7-1460, OHT7-1468 Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 2 7" reel(s). 20.13 Minutes and seconds duration. Transfers: Relates to first part of interview with Reverend Māori Marsden held at Library reference OHINT-0937-0528.. Search dates: 1989
Interview with Reverend Maori Marsden relating to Historic Places reforms
Date: May 1989
From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings
By: Marsden, Māori (Rev), 1924?-1993; Walker, Piripi, 1955-
Reference: OHInt-0937-0528
Description: Interviewers Piripi Walker and Nanny Horiana Hakaria talk to Reverend Maori Marsden (Ngāi Takoto) about the Historic Places reforms (wāhi hītori). Includes comment on content of a discussion paper prepared by Te Tai Tokerau on wāhi tapu and degrees of tapu, and on the reforms of the Historic Places Trust. Item includes mention of the recent death of Sir James Henare (Ngā Puhi), and the upcoming first anniversary of continous broadcast by Te Upoko o Te Ika radio Station. Recording contains blended traditional and Christian karakia. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT7-1462 Quantity: 1 7" reel(s). 1 Interview(s). 33.23 Minutes and seconds duration. Transfers: Relates to second part of interview with Reverend Māori Marsden held at Library reference OHINT-0937-0124.. Search dates: 1989
Maori Marsden - Mac Whakamoe Korero Paki [Storytelling]
Date: 8 May 1986
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-2863
Description: Description created from item label/housing, and notes from donor. Item has not been previewed as part of processing. Item may be double tracked. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s).
Maori Marsden 1
Date: Date unknown
From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings
By: Marsden, Māori (Rev), 1924?-1993
Reference: OHInt-0937-0538
Description: Maori Marsden 1 - Master Quantity: 1 interview(s). Number of interviews/events: 1
Rev Māori Marsdan Whakaora Tangata Me Mate Maori 3
Date: Date unknown
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3200
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Māori Marsden Mate Maori 1 Whakaora Tangata
Date: Date unknown
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3198
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Canon Māori Marsden 2
Date: 8 May 1984
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3196
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Te Kawa o te Marae. Koreroreo Hiko Hohepa Māori Marsden
Date: 10 May 1984
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3217
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Canon Māori Marsden 1, tepa 1
Date: 18 May 1984
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3195
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Canon Māori Marsden 1, tepa 1. Kawa o te marae patai 6
Date: 1984
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3194
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Rev Māori Marsden Whakaora Tangata Me Mate Maori 4
Date: 10 August 1984
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3201
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Canon Māori Marsden 3
Date: 8 May 1984
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3197
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Rev Māori Marsden Whakaora Tangata tape 2
Date: 10 May 1984
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3199
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Te Kawa o te Marae 6. 1. Te Kawa o [Ngapuhi] Māori Marsden 2. Te patere tuatahi, tenei ...
Date: Date unknown
From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings
Reference: OHT5-3206
Description: Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.