Old New Zealand Being Incidents Of Native Customs And Character In The Old Times By A Pakeha Maori Ie F E Maning PDF Download

"An honest and interesting book on how New Zealand was sttled. It was a late colonization, when the western world was a little bit more concious of the harm that can be done to natives (even though Maorias weren't exactly natives; they were earlier settlers). Maoris also were stronger and better developed than the indians found in America in the 1500s. The book explains not only how and why Maiori people got diminished, but also how their culture could be preserved, at least in part, up until today. The book has not the self-counciousness and guilt that we feel in NZs museums, were even the cannibalism is covererd up: it shows european and Maori cultures as they were, struggling to survive, individually." - Goodread.