Case 10
- The Struggle Continues
Dick Scott, Ask that mountain. The story of Parihaka. Auckland: Heinemann/Southern Cross, 1975. SPHR 993.488 SCO
Hotere owned several facsimile copies of contemporaneous accounts of the Taranaki Wars including Sir William Martin’s The Taranaki Question, originally published in 1860. He used it when researching Te Whiti and the background to the events at Parihaka. Hotere produced several works for curator James Mack’s 1973 Waikato Museum exhibition, ‘Taranaki Saw It All: The Story of Te Whiti o Rongomai of Parihaka’. Dick Scott’s classic Ask That Mountain (1975), with its iconic cover art by Michael Smither, did much to raise awareness of the Parihaka story among Pākehā and open their eyes to the realities of British colonisation. The Māori struggle for tino rangatiratanga since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi is documented in Dr Ranginui Walker’s outstanding historical account, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou.
Dick Scott, Ask that mountain. The story of Parihaka. Auckland: Heinemann/Southern Cross, 1975. SPHR 993.488 SCO
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Dick Scott, Ask that mountain. The story of Parihaka. Auckland: Heinemann/Southern Cross, 1975. SPHR 993.488 SCO
Dick Scott, Ask that mountain. The story of Parihaka. Auckland: Heinemann/Southern Cross, 1975. SPHR 993.488 SCO
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Sir William Martin, The Taranaki question. Dunedin: Hocken Library, University of Otago, 1967. SPHR 993.48 MAR
Sir William Martin, The Taranaki question. Dunedin: Hocken Library, University of Otago, 1967. SPHR 993.48 MAR
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Ranginui Walker, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou. Struggle without end. Auckland: Penguin Books, 1990. SPHR 305.899442 WAL
Ranginui Walker, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou. Struggle without end. Auckland: Penguin Books, 1990. SPHR 305.899442 WAL
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Ian Wedde, Pathway to the sea. Christchurch: Hawk Press, 1975. SPHR 821 WED
The dedication in Ian Wedde’s Pathway to the Sea (1975) reads: ‘this poem is dedicated by all concerned with the present production of it to the belief that Aramoana should be left to the birds fish sand-hoppers & other denizens who at present possess it only so long as their ambiguous productivity is tolerated by men ambitious for quick solution and profits’. Wedde’s poem, with its Hotere cover, was written in reaction to the first proposal to construct an aluminium smelter at Aramoana (in English, ‘pathway to the sea’). In 1979, the Save Aramoana Campaign was reconvened in response to renewed efforts to establish a smelter. It led an imaginative grassroots campaign that included the founding of the Independent State of Aramoana with its own border post and passports. Hotere and Cilla McQueen were heavily involved.
Ian Wedde, Pathway to the sea. Christchurch: Hawk Press, 1975. SPHR 821 WED
Tom Newnham, By batons and barbed wire. A response to the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand. Auckland: Real Pictures Ltd., 1981. SPHR 322.44 NEW
The 1981 tour of New Zealand by South Africa’s Springbok rugby team was met with large-scale, co-ordinated civil resistance by the country’s anti-apartheid movement led by organisations like HART (Halt All Racist Tours) and CARE (Citizens Association for Racial Equality). In 1972, ahead of the 1973 Springbok tour, Hotere, along with other artists and writers, signed a statement sent to the United Nations Committee on Apartheid, deploring ‘New Zealand Government policy amounting to an endorsement of racially selected sports.’ In 1981, he joined thousands of fellow protesters, and he produced many works throughout his career such as the Black Union Jack series that refer to the tours. On display is CARE’s national secretary Tom Newnham’s account of the 1981 protest movement. The photography within is dramatic.
Tom Newnham, By batons and barbed wire. A response to the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand. Auckland: Real Pictures Ltd., 1981. SPHR 322.44 NEW
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Tom Newnham, By batons and barbed wire. A response to the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand. Auckland: Real Pictures Ltd., 1981. SPHR 322.44 NEW
Tom Newnham, By batons and barbed wire. A response to the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand. Auckland: Real Pictures Ltd., 1981. SPHR 322.44 NEW
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