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Pakeha Maori is a book that brings together one of the great untold stories in New Zealand history. This is the story of the early Europeans (men and women) that settled in Maori communities and lived as Maori, many of them runaway convicts from Australia or deserting whalers and sealers.
The status of the Pakeha Maori varied from slave to tohunga to rangatira. Many elevated their status in the tribe by taking Maori partners, becoming tattooed with the full tattoo, acting as translators and traders with the Europeans and fighting for their new communities in inter-tribal warfare and even against Europeans in the New Zealand Wars.
Whatever their status, Pakeha Maori played a crucial role in the early exchanges between Maori and Pakeha.
This fascinating story is illustrated with many early sketches and photographs.
ISBN: 0140285407
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