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Rua Kenana was an extraordinary prophetic leader from the Urewera. Resisting threats to expel the Tuhoe people from their ancestral lands, he established a remarkable community at Maungapohatu, identifying himself as the Mihaia or Messiah for Tuhoe. Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin and Craig Wallace researched the history of the community in the 1970s, working f rst with a collection of photographs that they took to the Urewera. Sharing these photographs with descendants of Rua and his followers, they found that strangers opened their hearts to us, and shared their stories. This biographical account focuses on a dramatic moment in Urewera history, one that incorporated a shocking episode in early twentieth-century New Zealand. The rich photographic record documents not only the police assault on the Maungapohatu community but also the lives of the people and Ruas utopian vision. The prophet lived into the 1930s, a leader still working to support and sustain his followers. Described on publication as an unparalleled record of a community through time, this remarkable history has been in demand since frst publication by Oxford University Press in 1979.
256 pages
265 x 195 mm 200 b&w illustrations ISBN 9781927131305 $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 Chapter 1 The Prophet Ascendant Chapter 2 The New Jerusalem: The Community at Maungapohatu Chapter 3 The Law Against the Prophet Chapter 4 If Canaan is Destroyed, Can the New Canaan Arise?
The events surrounding the Maungapohatu community occupy a special place in Maori / New Zealand history - with rich resonance for today's readers The photographic record is exceptional The story is dramatic, the writing vivid The history is re-presented in a new design by Neil Pardington This is the frst in Judith Binney's groundbreaking Urewera quartet
Kerry Howe, NZ Listener: 'Mihaia is an excitingly different history book ...Its 200 photographs, together with Judith Binneys concise text, give a visual immediacy to hitherto little known or rather much misunderstood events in New Zealand history.
'...a remarkable
book. When the authors presented copies to the Tuhoe, one old man came forward and, in a moment of high emotion, said that he was illiterate but this book I can read.'
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