Story: First peoples in Māori tradition

More links and websites

• Kupe

  On the Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions website, this story of Kupe’s discovery of New Zealand was recorded by Hoani Te Whatahoro, and translated by S. Percy Smith.

More suggestions and sources

• Adkin, G. Leslie. The great harbour of Tara: traditional Maori place-names and sites of Wellington harbour and environs. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1959.
• Best, Elsdon. The land of Tara and they who settled it. New Plymouth: Polynesian Society, 1919.
• Best, Elsdon. ‘Te whetu: te haerenga mai o Kupe i Hawaiki.’ Journal of the Polynesian Society 2 (1896).
• Best, Elsdon. Tuhoe: the children of the mist. 4th ed. Auckland: Reed, 1996 (originally published 1925).
• Buck, Peter. The coming of the Maori. Wellington: Maori Purposes Fund Board/Whitcombe & Tombs, 1949.
• He korero purakau mo nga taunahanahatanga a nga tupuna: place names of the ancestors, a Maori oral history atlas. Wellington: New Zealand Geographic Board, 1990.
• McKinnon, Malcolm, ed. Bateman New Zealand historical atlas. Auckland: David Bateman, 1997.
• Ruatapu, Mohi. Nga korero a Mohi Ruatapu: the writings of Mohi Ruatapu, tohunga rongonui o Ngati Porou. Translated, edited and annotated by Anaru Reedy. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1993.