Māori Research
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Māori Heritage Collection
This collection is housed in the Research room and is for library-use only. The core of the collection is historic books relating to Māori from the Nelson Institute; a full list of items in the collections is available here.
Items are added to the collection if they are of significant heritage or research value, relating to Tangata Whenua or Top of the South Island iwi, are vulnerable or fragile, or are a key resource generally for Māori.
Māori non-fiction collection
This collection is located at the end of the Non-Fiction shelving. It is primarily a lending collection and gathers together Māori material from across the non-fiction subject areas.
Collection highlight ;
- Mitchell, Hilary & John (2004-) Te tau ihu o te Waka : a history of Maori of Nelson and Marlborough. Wellington, N.Z. : Huia Publishers in association with the Wakatū Incorporation.
In three volumes: v. 1. Te tangata me te whenua - The people and the land; v. 2.Te Ara Hou - The new society; v.3 Nga tupuna - The ancestors
Online Resources
- Māori Land Court Minute Book Index
- for use in the Library only or externally: Maori Land Court Minute Book Index (Auckland University).
- A fully searchable index to minute books 1865 - 1910, including Waipounamu Maori Land Court District, covering the Nelson area. Copies of the Nelson Minute Books are held in the Maori Heritage Collection.
For other useful websites see our list of online resources.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Nelson Public Libraries holds, or provides access to, a range of resources about the Treaty of Waitangi/ Te Tiriti o Waitangi:
In the Library
- Claudia Orange: The Treaty of Waitangi
- Claudia Orange: An Illustrated history of the Treaty of Waitangi
- Calman Ross: The Treaty of Waitangi
- Janine Hayward: The Waitangi Tribunal
- Bob Consedine: Healing our history : the challenge of the Treaty of Waitangi
- Malcolm Mulholland: Weeping waters : the Treaty of Waitangi and constitutional change
- Paul Moon: Te ara ki te Tiriti : the path to the Treaty of Waitangi
- Facsimiles of the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Waitangi.
Online resources
- Te Tau Ihu Statutory Acknowledgements, 2014 [PDF]
(2.3MB PDF)An attachment to the Nelson Regional Policy Statement, Nelson Air Quality Plan and the Nelson Resource Management Plan, as an outcome of the 2014 Settlement process. A statutory acknowledgment recognises the particular cultural, spiritual, historical and traditional association of an iwi with an identified site/area. The eight iwi of Te Tau Ihu to which these statutory acknowledgements relate are:
Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō
Ngāti Kuia
Rangitāne o Wairau
Ngāti Koata
Ngāti Rārua
Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu
Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui
Ngāti Toa Rangatira - He Tohu - the National Library houses the Treaty of Waitangi. This site tells its story.
- Waitangi Tribunal – includes reports and background documents
- Tangata whenua tribes of Te tauihu – on the Prow website
- Treaty of Waitangi resources from New Zealand History Online. Includes facsimiles of the original document:
- Treaty of Waitangi - Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Transcripts and fascimile copies of all the regional and language editions of the Treaty, from Archives New Zealand:.
- Pātaka Whenua - Māori Land Court New Zealand's oldest specialised court dealing with access, disputes, occupying, and history of whenua.
- Māori Maps - helps connect people with Maori descend to their marae and ancestry.
- Legal Māori Archive - assists with the use of Māori language in legal contexts.
- Kā Huru Manu, The Ngāi Tahu Cultural Mapping Project, - dedicated to mapping the traditional place names and associated stories within the Ngāi Tahu rohe (tribal area).
