Words Between Us
He Korero: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book traces Maori engagement with handwriting from 1769 to 1826. Through beautifully reproduced written documents, it describes the first encounters Maori had with paper and writing and the first relationships between Maori and Europeans in the earliest school. The book tells an image-led story about the earliest relationships between Maori and Pakeha based around the written word and sheds light on a larger story of the first attempts of Maori and Europeans to live together in the early 1800s, the negotiation of the relationship through conversations and correspondence, and frustrations of Maori at the limits of the teaching Europeans offered. Key people link the stories as the written words between Maori and Pakeha are tracked through documents such as Maori vocabularies, a map, letters, the alphabet, signatures, the first school roll, copybook pages and the first letter written independently by Maori.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- He Pao Waka Taki
- Acknowledgements / He mihi
- ONE. Finding the first Māori–Pākehā conversations on paper
- TWO. Word-giving in 1769
- THREE. Tukitahua teaches Europeans in 1793
- FOUR. First Māori use of written texts: the early 1800s
- FIVE. Maui studies writing in 1806
- SIX. A letter to Ruatara in June 1814
- SEVEN. The 1814 journey to collect a Pākehā teacher
- EIGHT. Not a sermon: an educational event on Christmas Day, 1814
- NINE. Tā moko signatures on the first land deeds, 1815 and 1819
- TEN. The first school roll – August 1816
- ELEVEN. ‘A Korao no New Zealand’: the first New Zealand book, 1815
- TWELVE. Māori at school in Australia from 1815
- THIRTEEN. Māori letters from the Industrial Revolution: 1818
- FOURTEEN. ‘Daily life written down’: the 1820 Grammar
- FIFTEEN. Writing at school in Rangihoua in 1826
- SIXTEEN. The first Māori letter, in 1825: ‘E te tini rangatira o ropi’
- SEVENTEEN. Conclusion: making writing Māori
- ENDNOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY. Primary sources
- Index
- Copyright