Ngāti Kuia

Dr Madi Williams (Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Kōata, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Rangitāne o Wairau) is a senior lecturer at Aotahi – School of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Canterbury, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. She completed her doctorate on Ngāti Kuia in 2021 at the University of Canterbury and is the author of Polynesia, 900–1600: An Overview of the History of Aotearoa, Rēkohu, and Rapa Nui (Canterbury University Press, 2021). She is currently working on a book on taniwha with Dr Kirsty Dunn.

• Foreword – Peter MeihanaPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Te Ao TawhitoChapter 1: Ngāti Kuia Origins and Whakapapa Chapter 2: The Story of My Taniwha Fish, Kaikaiāwaro Chapter 3: Te Wahine Nei, a HinepopoChapter 4: Te Rama o Whakatau Part Two: Te Ao HouChapter 5: Te Iwi Hou! Te Iwi Hou! Chapter 6: ‘We are the Poorest Tribe under the Heavens’ Chapter 7: Kua Whakaoho te Taniwha, a Kaikaiāwaro Kupu Whakamutunga: Ngākau Wareware

‘A counter-narrative in many ways, this work recentres Ngāti Kuia while pushing the genre of tribal history in new directions. Engaging with themes familiar to iwi across Aotearoa – land purchases, the Native Land Court, Treaty settlements, and the treatment of Māori histories – it speaks directly to the issues that continue to occupy the minds of Māori historians.’