Pewhairangi : Bay of Islands Missions and Maori 1814 to 1845 / Angela Middleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Middleton, Angela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missionaries--New Zealand--Bay of Islands.

Missionaries.

Māori (New Zealand people)--New Zealand--Bay of Islands.

Māori (New Zealand people).

Islands, Bay of (N.Z.)--History--19th century.

Islands, Bay of (N.Z.).

Pacific Ocean--Bay of Islands.

Physical Description:

336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2014.

Summary:

When a small group of three English families were landed in the bay below Rangihoua pa in 1814, under the protection of its chief and inhabitants, the story told in Pewhairangi began. It is the story of New Zealand's first permanent European settlement at Hohi, and the church mission that it represented, and of the other mission communities subsequently established in the Bay of Islands, at Kerikeri, Paihia, Waimate and Te Puna. It is a story of Ngapuhi and Pakeha engagement, as neighbors, over four decades. More than anything else, the rich fabric of the book is a story of people, of the chiefs Te Pahi, Ruatara, Hongi Hika, Tareha, Korokoro, of the missionaries John King, Thomas Kendall, James Kemp, John Butler, George Clarke, William Yate, and Henry Williams, of the mastermind Samuel Marsden, and of the wives and children of all these men: Hongi's wife Turikatuku and daughter Hariata, Hannah King and Hannah Butler, Hone Heke and George Clarke junior, Marianne Williams and Charlotte Kemp. And, recording the multiple comings and goings in the Bay were European artists, amateur and Professional, whose works supply the book's many fine illustrations. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Into the Maori World 11

Exchanges and travels before 1814

The Maori world

The English evangelicals

The mission evangelicals at Port Jackson, 1810-1814

Ngdpuhi in 1814: Whanau, hapu and iwi

2 Hohi and Rangihoua Pa, 1814 27

Missionary arrivals and Rangihoua, 1814

The land transaction and Marsden's departure

Ruatara's demise

The Hohi settlers

Organisation and trade

Hohi or Waitangi?

Hohi, the settlement

Marsden returns, 1819 and 1820

Thomas Kendall, Hongi and Waikato visit England

Kendall's expulsion

Hohi in decline

3 Maori Gardens and European Arms 68

Civilise, then Christianise

Maori horticulture and agriculture

The arms trade

Tlie musket wars

The wars draw to an end

Entanglements: unexpected outcomes

4 Kerikeri Mission and Kororipo Pa, 1819 86

Hongi Hika's mission

Kerikeri women and mission life

Conflict within the mission

Kerikeri after the Butlers

The Clarke era

Hongi Hika's death

The Stone Store

The Kemp era

From tapu to noa

5 Paihia, 1823 134

Te Koki and Hamu of Ngati Hine

Marianne and Henry Williams arrive 1823

Stand-offs and encounters

The mission community

The mission at work

The mission schools

Expansion and change, 1840

6 Te Waimate, 1830 171

The Clarke, Davis and Hamlin years

William and Jane Williams arrive

Richard Taylor takes over

A mission farm

The battle with the 'Prince of Darkness'

Winds of change

Waimate, a bishops palace?

Selwyn's Waimate institutions

Selwyn abandons the north

7 Te Puna, 1832 206

Traces of Te Puna

'Great things has been done'

'A lonely, difficult and profitless life' The mission and the pa

8 Escalation to War, 1845 226

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Economic decline in Pewhairangi

Tikanga or British law?

Ngapuhi divisions and politics

Heke's felling of the flagpole(s)

The sacking of Kororareka

Waimate, the wahi tapu

After Kororareka

Puketutu

Ohaeawai

Waimate, occupied territory

Ruapekapeka, the final battle

Peace making

Still the conversation lives

9 What Hath God Wrought? 267.

ISBN:

1877578533

9781877578533

OCLC:

881140909