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Living among the Northland Māori : diary of Father Antoine Garin, 1844-1846
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"A French Marist priest, Father Antoine Garin was sent to run the remote Mangakahia mission station on the banks of the Wairoa River. Living Among the Northland Māori is Garin's diary recording his...
"A French Marist priest, Father Antoine Garin was sent to run the remote Mangakahia mission station on the banks of the Wairoa River. Living Among the Northland Māori is Garin's diary recording his experiences from 1844 to 1846 as he gets to know the Māori in the region. The diary provides vivid accounts of contemporary events, as Garin came dangerously close to the action of the Northern War, and wrote of such prominent figures as Bishop Pompallier and of Hone Heke and Kawiti as they opposed the new colonial authorities. Above all, the diary is an intimate record of life in a Māori community in which Garin describes the close relationships he formed with his new neighbours - from his young followers and local families to the chiefs who offered him protection while he lived among them. This is the first full English translation of Garin's surviving Mangakahia journals and letters. Frank, open-minded and often humorous, Garin's diary is a major contribution to the early history of European settlement in Aotearoa and a compelling insight into Māori customs, values and beliefs of the time"--Back cover.
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- Creator
- translated & edited by Peter Tremewan & Giselle Larcombe
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Christchurch, New Zealand : Canterbury University Press, 2019
- ©2019
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- 600 pages, 20 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps, portraits ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781988503028, 1988503027
- OCLC
- on1091589563
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Garins diary, 1844 -- Garins diary, 1845 -- Garins diary, 1846 -- Appendix A: Garin's 1876 lecture on the Northern war -- Appendix B: Mangakāhia letters
Subjects
- Garin, Antoine Marie, Father, 1810-1889.
- Garin, Antoine Marie, Father, 1810-1889 -- Diaries.
- Garin, Antoine Marie, Father, 1810-1889 -- Correspondence.
- Marist Brothers -- Diaries.
- Marist Brothers -- Correspondence.
- Catholic Church -- New Zealand -- Clergy -- Diaries.
- Catholic Church -- New Zealand -- Clergy -- Correspondence.
- Māori (New Zealand people) -- New Zealand -- Northland -- Social life and customs.
- Northland (N.Z.) -- History -- 19th century.