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- Title
TUAI OF NGARE RAUMATI: TEACHING EUROPEANS IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY.
- Authors
JONES, ALISON; JENKINS, KUNI KAA
- Abstract
Tuai of Ngare Raumati was probably the most written-about Māori in the first quarter of the 19th century. He was a man who lived in unstable times, who moved flexibly within European and Māori society, and who engaged with almost everyone he met, according to a French observer, with “the tact and shrewdness which enabled [him] to realise with whom he had to deal and by what means he could commend himself to all” (Dumont D’Urville in Sharp 1971: 38). His name—or a version of it—appears in most indexes of books about the pre-1830s Bay of Islands. But almost all modern references to him are in passing. Our article seeks to bring into focus this shadowy figure who played a significant role in New Zealand history, and in particular the relationships between Māori and the first Pākehā settlers in the north of New Zealand.
- Subjects
BAY of Islands (N.Z.); MAORI (New Zealand people) -- First contact with Europeans; MARSDEN, Samuel
- Publication
Journal of the Polynesian Society, 2017, Vol 126, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
0032-4000
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15286/jps.126.1.7-32