NGA MOREHU

The Survivors

Judith Binney Gillian Chaplin Craig Wallace

For much of womens history, memory is the only way of discovering the past. Other sources simply do not exist. This is true for any history of Maori women in this century. All the women in this book have lived through times of acute social disturbance. Their voices must be heard. Judith Binney, 1992 In eight remarkable oral histories, Nga Morehu brings alive the experience of Maori women from the mid-twentieth century. Heni Brown (above right), Reremoana Koopu, Maaka Jones, Hei Ariki Algie, Heni Sunderland (above left), Miria Rua, Putiputi Onekawa and Te Akakura Rua talked with Judith Binney and Gillian Chaplin, sharing stories and memories. These are the women whose voices must be heard. The title, the survivors, refects the womens connection with the visionary leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and his followers, who adopted the name Nga Morehu during the wars of the 1860s. But these women are not only survivors: they are also the chosen ones, the leaders of their society. They speak here of richly diverse lives of arranged marriages and whangai adoption traditions, of working in both Maori and Pakeha communities. They pay testimony to their strong sense of a shared identity created by religious and community teachings.

256 pages

265 x 195 mm 130 b&w illustrations ISBN 9781927131312 $49.99 December 2011
Judith Binney, DNZM, FRSNZ, was the author of many award-winning histories, including Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki (1995) and Encircled Lands:Te Urewera 18201921 (2009). Her work will appear also in Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (forthcoming, 2012). Photographer Gillian Chaplin is a director of the Melbourne-based Magian Design Studio, specialising in exhibition design around the world. After graduating from Auckland University in languages and anthropology, Craig Wallace has managed literacy and English language programmes in the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

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Contents
Introduction: Te Kooti Arikirangi Rua and the Succession to Te Kooti Women of the Maori World The Making of an Oral History Heni Brown

A remarkable achievement in its time the book remains a landmark in women's history Visual and historical narratives are powerfully linked Judith Binney is a world-class historian; Gillian Chaplin is a superb photographer The second title in Judith Binney's Urewera quartet The new edition (designed by Neil Pardington) is a fresh presentation of an important work

Reremoana Koopu Maaka Jones

Hei Ariki Algie Heni Sutherland Miria Rua Putiputi Onekawa Te Akakura Rua

Judith Binney's Urewera quartet

Mihaia 1979, reissued November 2011, BWB Nga Morehu 1986, reissued November 2011, BWB Redemption Songs 1995, AUP/BWB Encircled Lands 2009, BWB

Keri Kaa, NZ Listener

'...one

to read the life histories of these women is a rare privilege. We are swept up into a world of pain, poverty and the sheer grind of daily life in rural villages. The women share their experiences of constant hardship early, sometimes arranged marriages, or the loss of young children and of occasional happy times. 'Throughout all the narratives there is a strong sense of taha wairua spiritual beliefs instilled by infuential whanau elders. To read these stories is to become enveloped in a brilliantly patterned cloak where all the strong threads are bound together with warmth and aroha.'

of the great taonga of the 1980s...

Judith Binney, DNZM, FRSNZ

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