Story: Taranaki tribe

More links and websites

• Attack on pacifist settlement at Parihaka

  Information about the invasion of Parihaka from NZ History.

• Puke Ariki

  The website for Taranaki Museum – Puke Ariki – contains information on Taranaki history, and links to other useful sites.

More suggestions and sources

• Ballara, Angela. Taua: ‘musket wars’, ‘land wars’ or tikanga? Auckland: Penguin, 2003.
• Church, Ian. Heartland of Aotea: Maori and European in South Taranaki before the Taranaki wars. Hawera: Hawera Historical Society, 1992.
• Hōhaia, Te Miringa, Gregory O’Brien and Lara Strongman, eds. Parihaka: the art of passive resistance. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001.
• Riseborough, Hazel. Days of darkness: the government and Parihaka, Taranaki, 1878–1884. Rev. ed. Auckland: Penguin, 2002.
• Scott, Dick. Ask that mountain: the story of Parihaka. Auckland: Heinemann/Southern Cross, 1975.
• Smith, S. Percy. History and traditions of the Maoris of the west coast, North Island of New Zealand, prior to 1840. New Plymouth: Polynesian Society, 1910.