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Images relating to the New Zealand Wars

Images relating to the New Zealand Wars

Images relating to a series of wars in New Zealand between the British Crown and Māori that began in the 1840s.

A dark tale of dispossession and greed

The New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 was an innocuous-sounding piece of legislation, but it had devastating consequences for many Māori communities.

See major Crown acquisitions since 1840, including confiscations after the New Zealand Wars and peak Native Land Court era.

5: New Zealand Wars (Part 1)

Hunger for land and the rise of Kingitanga prompted Governor George Grey to invade Waikato in 1863. Fighting spread over years and into the Bay of Plenty, devastating Maori. But it was not as one-s...

6: New Zealand Wars (Part 2)

As British troops leave, settler militia enter the fray. Some Māori chose to fight alongside the Crown while others join new religious movements, which seem to promise a way out of the conflict.

New Zealand Land wars petition presentation at Parliament

He Rā Maumahara

Can the New Zealand War fought over 150 years ago still have an impact today? Yes. After a visit in 2014 by Otorohanga College students to the Waikato battlefields, the pupils wondered why this pa...

History demands a personal reckoning

Leah Bell who along with Waimarama Anderson started a petition in 2014 calling for a day of commemoration for the New Zealand Wars discovers her Pākehā ancestry, can be a confronting and complica...

Utu Redux

In 1983 director Geoff Murphy stormed out of the scrub of the recently reborn New Zealand film industry with a quadruple-barreled shotgun take on the great Kiwi colonial epic. Set during the New Ze...

Māori and the New Zealand Wars

Māori and the New Zealand Wars

New Zealand's own civil war between Māori and the settler government was waged over more than a decade and cost thousands of lives. Mihingarangi Forbes looks back at this turning point in New ...

The Great War for New Zealand

The Great War for New Zealand

The New Zealand history wars

Our regular historian, Grant Morris from Victoria University talks about the current debate in NZ around whether our colonial history should be compulsory in schools. He says this is a complex issu...

NZ On Air 30th Birthday - The New Zealand Wars

NZ On Air 30th Birthday - The New Zealand Wars

Documentary series The New Zealand Wars reframed Kiwi history. Researched and presented by historian James Belich, it examined armed conflict between Māori and Pākehā. The show gripped the country ...

Calls to remember the New Zealand wars (1845 - 1872)

Calls to remember the New Zealand wars (1845 - 1872)

Items from various media on calls and petitions to mark the New Zealand Land Wars.

Vincent O'Malley - The New Zealand Wars/ Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa

Vincent O'Malley is a founding partner of HistoryWorks, a group of historians specialising in Treaty of Waitangi research. His latest work is The New Zealand Wars/ Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa, about the...

New Zealand War Medal

New Zealand War Medal

New Zealand War Medal

New Zealand War Medal

New Zealand War Medal

New Zealand War Medal

New Zealand Cross medal

New Zealand Cross medal

Sergeant Arthur W Carkeek (1843 -1897) of the New Zealand Armed Constabulary was awarded this New Zealand Cross in July 1870. The honour marks his bravery in carrying an urgent message through enem...

Letter

This item comes from a collection of letters, covers and other historical material which Te Papa has acquired from Gerald Ellott at various times since 2001. The collection includes items from as e...

Letter

This item comes from a collection of letters, covers and other historical material which Te Papa has acquired from Gerald Ellott at various times since 2001. The collection includes items from as e...

The Making of The Governor

The Making of The Governor

This documentary chronicles Kiwi television's first historical epic: 1977 George Grey miniseries The Governor. Presenter Ian Johnstone looks at how the show reconstructed 19th century Aotearoa, and...

River Queen

Vincent Ward's fifth feature follows an Irishwoman in 1860s New Zealand, as Māori tribes resist the occupation of their land by the British. Sarah (Samantha Morton) has had an affair with a Māori a...

Group of men, possibly at a Land Court meeting, inside Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu

Group of men, possibly at a Land Court meeting, inside Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu

Group of men, (at a Land Court meeting?) inside Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads: "Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata", however none of the...

Tītokowaru

This pou (carved post) shows Tītokowaru holding a musket. Beneath his feet are the heads of Governor George Bowen (left) and Major Gustavus von Tempsky. Von Tempsky was killed by Tītokowaru's force...

Māori rebel flag: Aotearoa

Maori flag: Aotearoa

One notable collector of New Zealand Wars material was William Francis Gordon. His collection focused largely on the 1860s and included paper-based material like maps, sketches, portraits, and here...

James Cowan

“It is important that the Maori side of the Wars be fairly represented.” Journalist and historian James Cowan was a Pakeha teller of stories, particularly those featuring our shared Maori Pakeha h...

THE MAORI WAR. (Star, 27 February 1869)

Hēni Te Kiri Karamū

Hēni Te Kiri Karamū

Armed Constabulary re-enactment

Armed Constabulary re-enactment

There are a number of groups who re-enact New Zealand’s 19th-century wars. Shown here are members of an Armed Constabulary group. The Armed Constabulary was New Zealand’s standing military force fr...

Cultural interactions in 1800s New Zealand

Students inquire into challenges and opportunities created by cultural interactions between tangata whenua and European settlers in 1800s Aotearoa New Zealand.

A swordfight in a swamp

This guide covers all the campaigns of the 1860s and 1870s.

How the battle to get NZ history taught in all schools was won and what it means

In September, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced New Zealand history will be taught in all schools and kura by 2022

Read all about it – the truth about British colonialism

A student project aims to highlight the gaping holes in history education

New Zealand Wars memorials

There are more than 60 memorials in New Zealand to the dead of the New Zealand Wars. But their story is strikingly different to that of the memorials put up in memory of those who died in the count...

Putting a face to the men who served

Who were the 12,000 or so men who came to New Zealand with the imperial regiments, and from Australia with the Waikato Militia, c.1860-1870?

Fortifications of the New Zealand Wars

This report catalogues 505 New Zealand War fortifications, 322 (63.8%) of them European and 183 (36.2%) Māori.

What a nation chooses to remember and forget

Historian Vincent O’Malley wonders if New Zealand is mature enough to own its history.

The use of rongoā Māori in battle

David Kukutai Jones says Māori used tonics, balms and ointments for pain relief and poultices were used to cover wounds before going back into battle.

New Zealand Wars

A guide to information on the history of the New Zealand Wars and on the men who served in military units, 1845-1872 Introduction.

Books and articles about New Zealand’s internal wars

Generations of New Zealanders have learned about our exploits in two world wars and the impact of these conflicts on the nation. But we are less familiar with our internal wars of the 19th century.

Visit New Zealand Wars heritage sites

Visit New Zealand Wars heritage sites to learn more about the conflict between Māori and Government forces that included the Crown’s Māori allies.

Find more information on this topic on EPIC. Databases recommended: New Zealand Geographic, Australia New Zealand Reference Centre (Plus), New Zealand History Collection (BWB). School login may be ...

The New Zealand Wars

This website presents aspects of the New Zealand Wars fought between Māori and the Crown throughout most of the 19th century, emphasising Māori histories of these engagements in the global context ...

New Zealand Wars

Conflict over sovereignty and land between government forces and Māori.

View (or print) the curiosity card about hikoi. Use the card’s fertile questions to inspire inquiry.

William Strutt’s New Zealand Wars painting

William Strutt’s View of Mt Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, taken from New Plymouth, with Māori driving off settlers’ cattle, 1861 has been described by some as the ‘holy grail’ of colonial New Zeal...

Our trail of tears: the story of Ihumātao

Ihumātao has deep roots in the legacy of colonialism and land confiscation.

Unearthing Ihumātao’s past

Dave Veart knows a bit about the rich history of Ihumātao and how, around seven centuries ago.

The New Zealand Wars and the school curriculum

In August 2016, the government announced that a national day of commemoration would be established (although not as a statutory holiday).

Utu and the search for ‘real history’

Can film teach history?

Papers Past contains digitised NZ and Pacific newspapers from the 19th century including Māori newspapers and eyewitness accounts and reports on aspects of the New Zealand Wars as they unfolded.

The Urewera raids

In 2007, with new anti-terrorism powers under their belt, police swooped on the people of Tūhoe in what has come to be known as the Urewera raids.

Forest fighting at Patumahoe

Major Von Tempsky, in his MS. journal, gave the following animated description of the first skirmish of the Mauku Forest Rifles and the Forest Rangers in 1863.

Marching into history

Tama Te Kapua Poata gives his account of the historic 1975 Māori Land March.

October 28: a national day to commemorate the New Zealand Wars

Summarises the various wars fought on New Zealand soil between 1843 and 1881. Looks at how they have shaped the military of today.

Te Takanga o te Wā - Māori History Guidelines Year 1 - 8

Te Takanga o te Wā is not designed as a list of lessons or learning experiences. Rather it provides a framework to support teachers to teach Māori history with their students.

New Zealand Wars and the curriculum

Lists some resources for teaching the New Zealand Wars, including School Journal articles and the using the Māori History framework.

New Zealand Wars prisoners’ waiata remain a beacon of hope

Victoria University of Wellington researchers are recovering the artistic expression and intellectual history contained in a forgotten trove of Māori songcraft.

The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection contains free to read out-of-print New Zealand War books and memoirs.

Further papers relative to the native insurrection

“I have the honor to transmit the following report of occurrences connected with the negotiation for the block of land at Waitara from the time it was first offered to the Government.”

Waitangi Tribunal; publications and resources

The Waitangi Tribunal and the Waitangi Tribunal Unit have issued a range of documents. A large number of these are available to read or download online and some are available in hard copy format.

What caused the New Zealand Wars?

If we ask what the cause of the New Zealand Wars was, then we are probably starting off in the wrong direction.

Alien Weaponry: A history lesson with added headbanging

Rū ana te Whenua is a song about the New Zealand land wars the late 1800s.

Finding Māori in the New Zealand Wars

Records at Archives New Zealand document events connected with the New Zealand Wars, including Māori involvement both for and against the Crown.

The ‘New Zealand Wars’ or ‘Land Wars’?

When most New Zealanders reflect on the armed conflicts fought on New Zealand soil during the nineteenth century, the label ‘the New Zealand Wars’ generally springs to mind.

James Cowan in and out of New Zealand History

This essay provides a critical overview of James Cowan’s writings, his methods, and his publishing history

Uncovering documentary evidence of the New Zealand Wars

In 2019 Alicia and Collection Manager Rebecca Loud from the Museum's Documentary Heritage team have been working on improving the quality of collection records relating to the New Zealand Wars.

Letter to the editor

A letter to the editor of the Lytteton Times defending Māori during the war.

New Zealand Wars (1840s-1870s)

This page from Many Answers will guide you to reviewed websites and databases on New Zealand Wars (1840s-1870s).

The Anniversaries of our Amnesia

It’s Taranaki Anniversary Day tomorrow, but what exactly is it celebrating?

Pā Tūwatawata and the New Zealand Wars

This article describes the development of pā technology in the nineteenth century, as iwi and hapū defended themselves and their land against invasion.

New Zealand’s children will all soon study the country’s brutal history

Aotearoa New Zealand has come a long way in the past few years in its efforts to engage with its history in a more upfront and honest manner.

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