Ngaa Mahi Whakaari a Tiitokowaru

Tiitokowaru: A Life in Action

First published in 1993, Ruka Alan Broughton’s book on Ngati Ruanui leader Tiitokowaru is one of a small number of histories or biographies written in te reo Maori.

Ngaa mahi a Tiitokowaru draws upon a wide range of Maori oral literature and is complemented by commentary and oral testimony provided to Ruka Alan Broughton in his youth by contemporaries of Tiitokowaru, a man whose place in the history of Aotearoa is legendary. This comprehensive w…