The Wall Walk

If you only ever read one book on NZ history...

I would recommend this one

By the late, great Dr Ranginui Walker, it covers all of the topics in The Wall Walk and more! If you have difficulty getting hold of a new copy, try buying one second-hand.

The National Library also has a range of relevant recordings that you can access online to grow your knowledge of Wall Walk-related history.

Judge Joe Williams’s 2019 Robin Cooke lecture, “Build a Bridge and Get Over It: The Role of Colonial Dispossession in Contemporary Indigenous Offending and What We Should Do About It”.

Dr Moana Jackson’s 16 Nov 2017 public lecture, “Why did Māori never have prisons?”.

If you have access to Netflix, check out the feature-length documentary “13th” based on Michelle Alexander’s book.

Hilary Cottam talks about “inverting the system”, through inversions of time and inversions of power. This is all part of the transformation she argues for from “transactional welfare” to “relational welfare”. At the heart of her thinking is the idea that the welfare system should be focussed on creating capability not managing dependence. For her, one of the best ways of creating capability is by broadening our social connections – creating groups that have people from different backgrounds with different skills, connections and experiences to share.

James Belich’s New Zealand Wars documentary collection on YouTube.

Lessons from a Recovering Racist, TEDTalk from Andrew Judd the former Mayor of New Plymouth, an advocate of Māori wards in local Government.

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Privilege in Perpetuity

Peter Meihana

The Fate of the Land

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The Ngai Tahu Deeds

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He Kupu Taurangi - Treaty Settlements and the Future of Aotearoa New Zealand

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The New Zealand Wars

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Voices from the New Zealand Wars - He Reo Nō Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa

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No Māori Allowed

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My Journey

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The Road to Hell

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Te Maiharoa and the Promised Land

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Reform: A Memoir

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The Story of Parihaka

Dick Scott

A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields

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Ko Taranaki Te Maunga

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The Great War for New Zealand Waikato 1800–2000

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Hīkoi: Forty Years of Māori Protest

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The Penguin History of New Zealand

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Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Māori In the First World War

Monty Soutar

Radical Help

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The Haka Party Incident

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The Platform

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Rewire

Dr Carla Houkamau and Anton Blank

Juridical Encounters

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Ngapua

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Te Puea

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Healing Our History

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Paradise Reforged

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He Tipua

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Te Wai Pounamu – The Greenstone Island

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Days of Darkness, Taranaki 1878-1884

Hazel Riseborough

The Prophet And The Policeman – The Story of Rua Kēnana and John Cullen

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