Te Hau Kāinga

Sarah Christie was a postdoctoral fellow in the History Programme at ŌtākouWhakaihu Waka, where she completed her doctorate on the social and culturalhistories of women in the workforce in New Zealand. She is currently aresearcher at the Ngāi Tahu Archive, Christchurch. Erica Newman (Ngāpuhi) is a senior lecturer at Te Tumu: School of Māori,Pacific and Indigenous Studies at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. She researchesadoption, whāngai, kinship and identity (internationally and nationally) with afocus on Indigenous perspectives, and has published on transracial adoption inNew Zealand. Erica was awarded a Marsden Fund Fast-Start grant to explore theintergenerational impact of the 1955 Adoption Act and to journey withdescendants of Māori adoptees who are searching for their tūrangawaewae.Lachy Paterson is emeritus professor at Te Tumu, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, where hetaught te reo Māori and Māori history. He researches Māori history, especiallyrelating to newspapers and other texts in Māori, and the relationship betweenMāori and the government in the nineteenth and first half of the twentiethcentury.Angela Wanhalla (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Pākehā) is a professor in theHistory Programme, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. Her primary research area is Māoriwomen’s history. Her most recent book is Of Love and War: Pacific Brides ofWorld War II (University of Nebraska Press, 2023).Ross Webb has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and is ahistorian with an interest in organised labour and oral history. He isprincipal researcher analyst in the Research Team at the Waitangi TribunalUnit, and is working on a book, ‘In Defence of Living Standards: The Federationof Labour, Politics, and Economic Crisis, 1975–1987’.

‘The war caused revolutionary changes at all levels: it proved to be astimulus for the Māori leadership at home as well as laying the basis for newdevelopments in the following years. This book provides a lens forunderstanding the years both before and after the war.’ — Dame ClaudiaOrange‘The depth and detail presented here affordsa greater understanding of the critical roles and significant contributions of Māorithat previously have not been explained and accounted for, or have not beenrecorded in such detail. There is a great need to supply information on theSecond World War from a Māori perspective, and this fills a void that has beenwanting and waiting for rich and detailed contributions.’ — ProfessorTangiwai Rewi, Dean of Māori and Indigenous Studies, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato– University of Waikato‘Sir Apirana Ngata spoke of Māori contribution to the war effort as theprice of citizenship; it is a price which should not have had to be paid, andthis book reminds us what a huge opportunity for Māori self-determination wasdestroyed by the power structure at war’s end.’ — JimMcAloon, Professor of History, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University ofWellington‘This is not simply a story of Māori during the war. Two themes stood outfor me: first, the enormous cost carried by Māori during the war and its impacton communities, whenua and moana. Second, Māori sacrifice – both in terms ofhuman life and hardship – are alongside stories of creative survival in theface of the long-term effects of colonisation. Te Hau Kāinga will attract a general readership, bothPākehā and Māori, while contributing to scholarly arguments around indigenousresponses to global war.’ — Rowan Light, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland