Kōrero: Samoans

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

• An immigrant nation –searching for paradise

  Excerpts from a 1996 documentary profiling Pati 'Albert' Umaga, one of the first generation of New Zealand-born Samoans, on the NZ On Screen website.

• Children of the migration

  A 2004 documentary about Pacific Island immigrants in New Zealand, on the NZ On Screen website.

• Living Heritage – Fa'a Samoa

  This is an excellent introduction to Samoan culture by Samoan students at Marcellin College.

• New Zealand in Samoa

  This feature on the NZ History website provides an overview of New Zealand's administration of Samoa from 1920 to 1962.

• Understanding Dawn Raids

  Digital hub to support the telling of Pacific people’s historical stories, focusing on the Dawn Raids of the 1970s.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

• Anae, Melani. The platform: the radical legacy of the Polynesian Panthers. Wellington: BWB Books, 2020.
• Anae, Melani with Lautofa Iuli and Leilani Tamu. Polynesian Panthers: Pacific protest and affirmative action in Aotearoa New Zealand 1971-1981. Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2015.
• Anae, Melani, ‘The Treaty of Waitangi and the va between Māori and Pacific peoples in Aotearoa, New Zealand’. Pacific Media Network, 2021.
• Fairbairn-Dunlop, Peggy, and Gabrielle Sisifo Makisi. Making our place: growing up PI in New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 2003.
• Lal, B. ‘Perspectives on ethnicity: old wine in new bottles.’ Ethnic and Racial Studies 6, no. 2 (1983): 154–173.
• Macpherson, Cluny, Paul Spoonley, and Melani Anae, eds. Tangata o te moana nui: the evolving identities of Pacific peoples in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 2001.
• Mallon, Sean, and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira, eds. Pacific art Niu Sila: the Pacific dimension of New Zealand contemporary arts. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2002.
• Mallon, Sean, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai and Damon Salesa, Tangata o le moana: New Zealand and the people of the Pacific. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2012
• Pitt, David, and Cluny Macpherson. Emerging pluralism: the Samoan community in New Zealand. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1974.
• Pacific Aotearoa Status Report: A Snapshot. Wellington: Ministry for Pacific Peoples, 2021.