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Information is right at your fingertips through the following databases:

Waitangi Tribunal Reports

This site includes the published reports of the Waitangi Tribunal as well as information about the Tribunal and its duties. Full reports are in pdf format.
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Ngata Dictionary

The H. M. Ngata English-Māori Dictionary is the first dictionary to offer an extensive selection of English to Māori headwords, illustrating their use in sentences and phrases drawn from a wide range of contemporary and traditional contexts. An important aim of the dictionary is to assist learners of the Māori language, and particularly to encourage students in the classroom, but it will be equally valuable for those already familiar with the Māori language. It is a concise English-Māori dictionary, which is explicitly, but not exclusively, based on Ngati Porou and East Coast dialect and idiom. The English-Māori Dictionary complements the use of other dictionaries of Māori and English, and glossaries produced by other agencies such as Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (the Māori Language Commission).
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Māori Statistics

This web page brings together statistical information on the Māori population from a range of sources to help understand the size and direction of changes in their demographic, economic, social and cultural position.
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Niupepa: Māori Newspapers Digital Collection

The Niupepa: Māori Newspapers Digital Collection is an electronic collection of over 17,000 pages taken from 34 separate periodicals. It is based on 'Niupepa 1842-1933', a microfiche collection produced by the Alexander Turnbull Library. 70% of the collection is written solely in Māori, 27% is bilingual and about 3% is written in English. There were three main types of niupepa published; government sponsored, Māori initiated, and religious.
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Index of Māori Names

This index is from an unpublished manuscript compiled about 1925 by the missionary Rev. Henry James Fletcher (1868-1933). In its original form it was 987 pages long, a vast index of Māori names referred to in books and journals, including the names of boundaries,Māori individuals, canoes, trees, landmarks and geographical locations. It is a significant resource that is also held at Wellington City Libraries in photocopied and microfilm formats. This site from the University of Waikato makes the index freely available on the Web and embarks on the task of updating and expanding the index by adding more recently published items.
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Tāngata Māori Database

This comprises a collection of articles on Māori people covering the years 1930 to the present day, many of them taken from the Dominion and Evening Post newspapers. The core of the material once formed the biographies file of the New Zealand vertical file collection.
Rohe/iwi mentioned include: Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Mataatua.
The complete article can be viewed by either requesting the listed MVF subject file from staff at the Central Library, or requesting to see a microfilmed copy of the original newspaper.
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Elsdon Best monographs

Provided by The Knowledge Basket, this site contains the full text of six publications from the early Dominion Museum Monograph and Dominion Museum Bulletin series. The author, Elsdon Best (1856-1931) was an ethnologist with the Dominion Museum for 20 years and in that time compiled an impressive number of publications on Māori history and lore.
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Wellington City Libraries Māori pages

Click here for more useful links and information about the Library's resources.

Index New Zealand

Index New Zealand (INNZ) is an index with abstracts from selected New Zealand serial publications, including newspapers, and nearly 300 journals about New Zealand and the South Pacific.
INNZ is updated daily and approximately 2,000 documents are added monthly. Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities. Comprehensive coverage of titles extends from 1987 onwards. Many New Zealand titles have also been retrospectively indexed.
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