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Official website for Tainui tribal information

This website features news and links to related websites.
Origins of the Māori King movement

Thisnzhistory.net.nz exhibition provides a good overview of the origins and history of the King movement.
Te Kingitanga – the Māori King movement

On the NZHistory.net.nz site, this feature outlines the history of the Māori King movement and gives information on successive monarchs.
Te Kingitanga – troubled times, 1860–94

This feature on the NZHistory.net.nz site explains events during the reign of Tāwhiao, the second Māori King, including war in the Waikato region.

More suggestions and sources

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.
Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, and Bruce Biggs. Nga iwi o Tainui. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.
Kirkwood, Carmen. Tāwhiao: king or prophet. Huntly: MAI Systems, 2001.
Te Kīngitanga: the people of the Maori King movement. Auckland: Auckland University Press/Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1996.

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