Waikato History (Maori)
River related reading on early Maori History
Read through these taking special note of the way Maori lived before European settlement.
How did they feel when their lands were taken? Putting yourselves in their shoes, how would you have felt?
Make notes of the main ideas and facts to present back to the class at a later date.
Who? What? When? How? Why?
Web
Sites (to help your research- think Waikato based)
· Historical Timeline of New
Zealand (see
http://www.nzhcottawa.org/aboutnz/histtimeline.htm)
· Chinese Settlement in New
Zealand (see
http://www.stevenyoung.co.nz/chinesevoice/history.htm)
· Waipu Migration (see http://www.waipumuseum.com/#migr)
· A History of Coromandel Town (see http://www.thepeninsula.co.nz/coromandel/history.htm)
· History of Whitianga (see http://www.thepeninsula.co.nz/whitianga/history.htm)
· Waikato History (see http://www.chemistry.co.nz/waikato_history.htm)
· History of Tokoroa (see http://www.downtown.co.nz/SouthWaikato/History.html)
· History of Taupo Region (see http://www.sawyer.co.nz/ch61/ch61_history.html)
· Wellington's History (see http://www.wcc.govt.nz/wellington/history.html)
· Early Christchurch (see http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/EarlyChristchurch/)
· Arrowtown Past and Present (see http://www.arrowtown.org.nz/about.htm)
· Otago Goldfiels (see http://www.nzsouth.co.nz/goldfields/index.html)
· Historic Invercargill (see
http://www.invercargill.org.nz/About-Invercargill/History.asp)
· New Zealand from the History
Channel (see
http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=24576)
· Star of India - Immigrant Ship (see
http://www.sdmaritime.org/contentpage.asp?ContentID=48)
· Settlement in New Zealand (see http://history-nz.org/maori1.html)
· The Irish in New Zealand (see http://www.mch.govt.nz/ref/enz/irish/settle.html)
· The New Zealand Wars: Colonial
Settlement (see
http://www.newzealandwars.co.nz/cau_colonialsettlement.html)
· A Story of Puhoi (Bohemian
Association) (see http://bohemian.orcon.net.nz/ohaupo.htm)
