Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820–1921For Europeans during the nineteenth century, the Urewera was a remote wilderness; for those who lived there, it was a sheltering heartland. This history documents the first hundred years of the ‘Rohe Pōtae’ (the ‘encircled lands’ of the Urewera) following European contact. After large areas of land were lost, the Urewera became for a brief period an autonomous district, governed by its own leaders. But in 1921–22, the Urewera District Native Reserve was abolished in law. Its very existence became largely forgotten – except in local memory. Recovering this history from a wealth of contemporary documents, many written by Urewera leaders, Encircled Lands contextualises Tūhoe’s quest for a constitutional agreement that restores their authority in their lands. |
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Strange men and gods | 33 |
Invasion and War | 57 |
The coming of war 18641866 | 59 |
Confiscation and defence 18661868 | 97 |
The conflict expands 18671870 | 135 |
The first land sales 19091912 | 593 |
The Rohe Pōtae Subverted | 631 |
The law against the prophet 19111916 | 633 |
Legacies of the past | 661 |
William Colensos survey of the Urewera 184318441 | 686 |
C Hunter Browns Urewera survey 18621 | 692 |
Population of the Urewera 18701907 | 695 |
Elsdon Bests list of Urewera hapū chiefs and kāinga March 1896 | 710 |
Peace born of war 18711872 | 190 |
Guarding the Land | 227 |
Te Whitu Tekau The Seventy 18721878 | 229 |
The ring of fire 18781891 | 281 |
The Rohe Pōtae and the small war 18911896 | 354 |
A Promise Upheld? | 431 |
The Urewera District Native Reserve 18961907 | 433 |
The Urewera Native Schools and the famine 18961909 | 473 |
The governor and ngā rawa kore two narratives | 505 |
The struggle for authority 19061909 | 546 |