Māori Studies

Key databases

• Index New Zealand
  Journals, newspapers and magazines about New Zealand and the South Pacific.
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
  Academic journals, magazines, newspapers, newswires, reference books and company information from Australian, New Zealand and selected overseas magazines.
• eTV
  Provides real-time teaching video resources through local and international television programming delivered as live streams and videos available to be viewed and downloaded.

Manuscripts, archives

• Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound
  A collection of aural research relating to Melanesia and the Pacific.
• Manuscripts and Archives
  More than 1,000 archival collections in Special Collections, Te Tumu Herenga, including architecture and fine arts material.

Dictionaries, encyclopedias

• Wakareo
  Compilation of Māori-English and English-Māori dictionaries, lexicons and word lists.
• Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
  DNZB is incorporated within Te Ara the encyclopedia of New Zealand.

Full list of databases for Māori Studies.

Theses

• University of Auckland Research Repository, ResearchSpace
  Full-text theses and other research outputs.
• NZResearch.org.nz
  Theses, dissertations, and other scholarly research produced by tertiary institutions in New Zealand.

Māori specific collections

• Matauranga Māori collection
• Western Pacific Archives
• Māori Feather and Fibre Taonga in Museums Collection

Research centres

• Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga media centre
  Short documentary style videos of research and events, including conference presentations and seminars.
• Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga project reports and working papers
  Centre of Research Excellence funded by the Tertiary Education Commission and hosted by the University of Auckland.
• Starpath research reports
  Partnership between the Government and the University of Auckland based at the Faculty of Education and Social Work.
• Te Hononga Mātauranga post-graduate resource portal
  Support and information for Māori Doctoral and other post-graduate students.
• Te Hononga Pūkenga
  Māori & Indigenous researcher directory created by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.
• Te Kotahitanga publications, papers, research reports
  Research and professional development supporting teachers to improve Māori students' learning and achievement.
• Te Wāhanga publications
  New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER).

Television

• The TV and Radio database has over 100,000 hours of archived television and radio from 1965 to the present. This collection includes a wealth of news and current affairs programming including Māori television content.

Library Catalogue

Books in the University of Auckland Library can be found using the Catalogue.

You can locate information by typing phrases, keywords or subject headings into the Search Box, e.g.,

• Maori New Zealand people - Social life and customs
• Maori New Zealand people - Rites and ceremonies
• Maori tattooing
• Maori music

To find iwi or region related information type in the iwi or region name also, e.g., Ngati Whatua, Tainui, Ngati Toa (you do not need to include macrons).

Getting started

For new researchers in this area you are encouraged to read Charles Te Ahukaramu Royal's book Te Haurapa: An introduction to researching tribal histories and traditions. 

For researchers in Auckland

• Auckland Libraries Heritage Collection which includes Introduction to Whakapapa Research and Family History
• Auckland War Memorial Museum Collections and Research
• Māori Land Court Auckland Office

Books, articles and kōrero

• Bromell, Anne. Tracing family history in New Zealand. 1996.
• Joyce, Brenda and Mathers, Bruce. Whakapapa: An introduction to Māori family history research. 2006.
• Joyce, Brenda, Mathers, Bruce and Ormsby, Owen. Whakapapa: An introduction to researching Māori and Pākehā-Māori families, their history, heritage and culture. 2008.
• McRae, Jane. "Researching Māori Genealogy". NZ Genealogist 23(218) 384-87. Nov-Dec 1992.
• Reedy, Arnold. "Value of whakapapa - question answered by Arnold reedy, Sonny Baker and Pine Taiapa, at Ruataupare School, Tokomaru Bay, 18/5/67.
• Royal, Charles. Te Haurapa: An introduction to researching tribal histories and traditions. 1992.

Databases and websites

• Archives NZ 
• Births, Deaths and Marriages Online
  Includes New Zealand birth, death, marriage, civil union and name change information, and issues certificates and printouts.
• Index New Zealand
  Journals, newspapers and magazines about New Zealand and the South Pacific.
• Māori Land Court Minute Books Index
  An index of more than 1,100 minute books from the whole country for hearings held between 1865-1910.
• Māori Bibliography
  A subject index to information on Māori topics appearing in books, conference proceedings and selected periodicals.
• Papatupu Block Committee Minute Books
  Taitokerau and Tairawhiti districts, 1900-1910.

Iwi and marae maps

• Te Kāhui Māngai
  Directory of Māori and iwi organisations. Includes interactive iwi and hapū maps.
• TAKOA Maps & Resources
  Māori directory, includes maps of iwi, hapū and pā sites throughout New Zealand.
• Māori Maps
  Maps, photographs and information for every tribal Marae.

Whakapapa resources by region

• Tai Tokerau: Northern iwi
• Tainui: Waikato and Hauraki iwi
• Mataatua: Bay of Plenty iwi
• Arawa: Bay of Plenty iwi
• Tai Rāwhiti: East Coast and Hawkes Bay iwi
• Taranaki: Aotea Tokomaru iwi
• Whanganui: Whanganui iwi
• Takitimu: Lower East Coast iwi
• Te Upoko o te Ika: Wellington iwi
• Te Waipounamu: South Island iwi
• Wharekauri: Chatham Islands iwi

Other resources

• Iwi katoa: Whakapapa relating to many iwi
• Pre-Contact period
• Whanaungatanga

Key databases

• Māori Land Court Minute Books Index
  An index of the minute books for hearings held between 1865 and 1910.
• Fenton's Important Judgments
  Important Judgments delivered in the Compensation Court and Native Land Court 1866 to 1879 and Native Custom and Law Affecting Native Land.
• Lexis Advance
  New Zealand and international legal content, including New Zealand legislation, case law, New Zealand Law Reports, the legal encyclopedia Laws of New Zealand, legal commentary, Casebase and the indexing database Linxplus.
• Hansard
  Transcript of debates in the New Zealand Parliament, including the Legislative Council.

Select bibliographies

• Māori land and sea tenure
• Regional land histories
• Whenua Māori
• Waitangi Tribunal Rangahaua Whanui reports
• Significant Waitangi Tribunal reports

Government

• Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHR)
• Landcare Research
  Crown Research Institute (CRI).
• Māori Land Court
  A court service for whānau, hapū and owners of Māori land.
• Ngā Tipu Whakaoranga
  Information on how Māori used plants, particularly before the arrival of Europeans.
• Te Arawhiti | Office for Māori Crown Relations
  Negotiates the settlement of Treaty of Waitangi claims, and administers the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011.
• Raupatu Document Bank
  National Archives relating to land claims from the 1870s to 1960s together with statutes relating to confiscated land.
• Waitangi Tribunal
  Treaty of Waitangi claims, reports and publications.
• Papatupu Block Committee Minute Books
  Taitokerau and Tairawhiti districts, 1900-1910.

Maps

• Toitū Te Whenua | Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)
  Topographic maps for all of New Zealand, its offshore islands, some Pacific Islands and the Ross Sea region of Antarctica.
• Maori Land Online
  Current ownership, trustee, memorial and block information.
• Visualizing Māori Land
  Physical characteristics, constraints and potential of Māori land.
• Māori Maps
  Maps, photographs and information for every tribal Marae.
• Map Room - Located Level M, General Library, University of Auckland
  New Zealand and Pacific sheet maps, atlases, aerial photographs and gazetteers.

Getting started

• Treaty of Waitangi
  New Zealand History
• Te Tiriti o Waitangi
  Radio New Zealand
• Treaty of Waitangi exhibition
  Archives New Zealand
• TREATY 2 U
  Produced by the National Library, Te Papa and Archives New Zealand for secondary school students.

Select bibliography

• Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Waitangi Tribunal

Set up by the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, the Waitangi Tribunal is a permanent commission of inquiry that makes recommendations on claims brought by Māori relating to Crown actions which breach the promises made in the Treaty of Waitangi.

• Waitangi Tribunal
• Waitangi Tribunal Reports

Te Arawhiti The Office for Māori Crown Relations

• Te Arawhiti The Office for Māori Crown Relations
• ​Te Kāhui Whakatau (Treaty Settlements)

Literature

• Bibliography on Māori literature

Material culture

• Bibliography on Māori material culture

Mahi whakairo

• Alphabetical list of Māori woodcarvers and their works
  
  This list, compiled by the late Dr Roger Neich, was the first attempt to synthesize all scattered information about individual Māori woodcarvers. It is not an exhaustive list and may contain errors. With so much confusion in the literature over first names, surnames and patronyms, it was decided to give the names of each carver in the order that they usually appear but then to list them alphabetically by the last (surname) name, with some cross-referencing by other commonly used names.
  • Entry framework: Name (with published variations) Birth-death dates and/or floruit dates Hapū, Iwi, Works with their dates and References.

Performing arts and Kapa Haka

• Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound
  Includes lists of iwi and performers.
• Te Whare Haka: Home of Haka
  Māori Television programmes highlighting the world of Kapa Haka, includes performances and news.
• TV and Radio
  Recordings of Kapa Haka festivals.
• Te Matatini Kapa Haka Aotearoa
  Publications discussing the benefits and impact of Kapa Haka.
• University of Auckland Research Repository, Research Space
  Theses on Kapa Haka.
• NZResearch.org.nz
  Theses, dissertations and other scholarly research on Kapa Haka.

Call numbers for books in the Mātauranga Māori collection (Level M, General Library)

• Myths and legends 398.2
• Māori language 499
• Music 780.995
• Performing arts 790
• Games and haka 792 - 794
• Poetry and oral literature 899
• Iwi and hapū 995

Tirohanga Māori

Select bibliographies

• Māori views and attitudes
• Traditional Māori society
• Contemporary Māori society
• First-hand accounts of early explorers, traders and missionaries

Te Reo Māori

Dictionaries

• Wakareo
• Williams dictionary
• Ngata dictionary
• Te Aka | Māori dictionary

Other useful websites

• Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori
• Te Ipukarea
• Māori Language.net
• Irirangi.net
• Toku Reo

Support

• Referencing
  Access a range of tools and support material to assist your referencing work.

Examples

• Quick©ite
  Use this interactive tool to view examples of references.
  Covers a range of styles used at the University of Auckland.