num_pages: 154
description: There are two sides to every story. Until now, accounts of Otago's past have been written largely by (and for) Pakeha. Te Mamae me te Aroha tells the Maori side of the region's history. Dunedin historian Bill Dacker weaves together generations of memories, information from interviews, letters, journals, archives, records of land deeds, and newspaper accounts in this fascinating and thoroughly readable history of Kai Tahu. Find out about Kai Tahu seafarers running whaling operations, and plying the shipping routes; Maori involvement in the Central Otago goldrush; the significance of Moeraki, Waikouaiti, Omarama, Otakou, Taieri and many other centres of Maori life; how Maori lived off the land and sea long ago; the background to Ngai Tahu's claim under the Treaty of Waitangi; what happened to 'half-castes' last century; local Maori concert parties raising money for the war effort in two world wars; the work in Otago of the Maori Women's Welfare League; Kai Tahu writers, artists and scholars who have made their mark in the region and internationally; and new Maori industries and tourist ventures. Te Mamae me te Aroha is illustrated with 100 photographs of the people, past and present, to whom today's Kai Tahu owe their strength, pride and very existence.
language: English
title: Te Mamae Me Te Aroha = the Pain and the Love: A History of Kai Tahu Whanui in Otago, 1844-1994
titlecomplete: Te Mamae Me Te Aroha = the Pain and the Love: A History of Kai Tahu Whanui in Otago, 1844-1994
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Otago Univ Pr