Information is right at your fingertips through the following databases:
Waitangi Tribunal Reports
This site includes the published reports of the Waitangi Tribunal as well as information about the Tribunal and its duties. Full reports are in pdf format.
Ngata Dictionary
The H. M. Ngata Dictionary offers over 14,500 headwords, illustrating their use in sentences and phrases drawn from a wide range of contemporary and traditional contexts. It is available online for English to Māori and Māori to English searching. Based primarily on Ngati Porou dialect, the dictionary embraces a wide variety of tribal usages and is accessible to students at a basic level, as well as to those with an advanced knowledge of Māori language. The Dictionary complements the use of other dictionaries of Māori and English, and glossaries produced by other agencies such as Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (the Māori Language Commission).
Māori Statistics
This web page from Statistics New Zealand (Tatauranga Aotearoa) brings together statistical information on the Māori population from a range of sources to help understand the size and direction of changes in their demographic, economic, social and cultural position.
Niupepa: Māori Newspapers Digital Collection
The Niupepa: Māori Newspapers Digital Collection is an electronic collection of over 17,000 pages taken from 34 separate periodicals. It is based on 'Niupepa 1842-1933', a microfiche collection produced by the Alexander Turnbull Library. 70% of the collection is written solely in Māori, 27% is bilingual and about 3% is written in English. There were three main types of niupepa published; government sponsored, Māori initiated, and religious.
Index of Māori Names
This index is from an unpublished manuscript compiled about 1925 by the missionary Rev. Henry James Fletcher (1868-1933). In its original form it was 987 pages long, a vast index of Māori names referred to in books and journals, including the names of boundaries, Māori individuals, canoes, trees, landmarks and geographical locations. It is a significant resource that is also held at Wellington City Libraries in photocopied and microfilm formats. This site from the University of Waikato makes the index freely available on the Web and embarks on the task of updating and expanding the index by adding more recently published items.
Tāngata Māori Database
This comprises a collection of articles on Māori people covering the years 1930 to the present day, many of them taken from the Dominion and Evening Post newspapers. The core of the material once formed the biographies file of the New Zealand vertical file collection.
Elsdon Best monographs
Provided by The Knowledge Basket, this site contains the full text of six publications from the early Dominion Museum Monograph and Dominion Museum Bulletin series. The author, Elsdon Best (1856-1931) was an ethnologist with the Dominion Museum for 20 years and in that time compiled an impressive number of publications on Māori history and lore.
Wellington City Libraries Māori pagesClick here for more useful links and information about the Library's resources.
Index New Zealand
Index New Zealand (INNZ) is an index with abstracts from selected New Zealand serial publications, including newspapers, and nearly 300 journals about New Zealand and the South Pacific.
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