Woven by water : histories from the Whanganui River
" 'The mana of the Māori is by water. No one, here, carrying the same thing that I'm carrying today' TITI TIHU" "In living memory, before the Whanganui River became a tawny mass seeming to flow upside down, the river bed was clean stone and the water of the river '... tasted like kōwhai. The trees used to grow over the river and drop into the water, and the water tasted like kōwhai.' This is a book of many river people - a 'hidden' prophet, living with over a thousand followers at a place now deserted; a Pākehā-Māori, making gunpowder using charcoal made from willows grown from cuttings taken from Napoleon's grave; a riverboat magnate, building a fiefdom on 'the Rhine of Maoriland'; a highly decorated soldier, fighting as a kūpapa yet fighting for tino rangatiratanga; arsenic and flour poisoners - and always, the river itself. ' Ngā toa pohe e ngari to hoe' "--BACK COVER
Māori
xii, 323 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 27 cm.
9780908975594, 9780908975624, 0908975597, 0908975627
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Crossings
He ara waka
Baptisms
Midstream
He matapihi
Gatherings
He poropiti
Betrayal
Tuna
Clearings
Te iho
Powers
"Reprinted 2004 with minor corrections"--T.p. verso