While Dragging Our Hearts Behind Us
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He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui
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He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui
A Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha
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‘Kāore kau he kaumātua hei rite mō Te Rauparaha te mōhio ki te whawhai, me te toa hoki, me te tino tangata ki te atawhai tangata.’
‘There has never been a man equal to Te Rauparaha in terms of knowledge of warfare and prowess in battle, and in being so dedicated to looking after people.’
—Tamihana Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha is most well known today as the composer of the haka ‘Ka mate’, made famous the world over by the All Blacks. A major figure in nineteenth-century history, Te Rauparaha was responsible for rearranging the tribal landscape of a large part of the country after leading his tribe Ngāti Toa to migrate to Kapiti Island. He is venerated by his own descendants but reviled with equal passion by the descendants of those tribes who were on the receiving end of his military campaigns in the musket-war era.
He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui is a 50,000-word account in te reo Māori of Te Rauparaha’s life, written by his son Tamihana Te Rauparaha between 1866 and 1869. A pioneering work of Māori (and, indeed, indigenous) biography, Tamihana’s narrative weaves together the oral accounts of his father and other kaumātua to produce an extraordinary record of Te Rauparaha and his rapidly changing world. Edited and translated by Ross Calman, a descendant of Te Rauparaha, He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui makes available for the first time this major work of Māori literature in a parallel Māori/English edition.
- ISBN-13
- 9781869409203
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Imprint
- Auckland University Press
- Publication date
- 12 November 2020
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 368
- Dimensions
- 240 x 170 mm
- Language
- English
