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Contents: E kore au e ngaro : ancestral connections to the Pacific / Peter Adds -- Explorers and pioneers : the first Pacific people in New Zealand / Janet Davidson -- Visitors : Tupaia, the navigator priest / Anne Salmond -- Little-known lives : Pacific Islanders in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Sean Mallon -- A Pacific destiny : New Zealand's overseas empire, 1840-1945 / Damon Salesa -- Barques, banana boats and Boeings : transport and communications, 1860s to the present day / Gavin McLean -- FIA (Forgotten in action) : Pacific Islanders in the New Zealand armed forces / Kolokesa Mahina-Tuai -- A land of milk and honey? : education and employment migration schemes in the postwar era / Kolokesa Mahina-Tuai -- Empowering Pacific peoples : community organisations in New Zealand / Cluny Macpherson -- Trade and exchange : economic links between the Pacific and New Zealand in the twentieth century / Geoff Bertram -- All power to the people : overstayers, dawn raids and the Polynesian Panthers / Melani Anae -- Good neighbour, big brother, kin? : New Zealand's foreign policy in the contemporary Pacific / Teresia Teaiwa -- Representing the people : Pacific politicians in New Zealand / Graeme Whimp -- Conspicuous selections : Pacific Islanders in New Zealand sport / Sean Mallon -- Arts specific : Pacific peoples and New Zealand's arts / Fulimalo Pereira -- Epilogue : tangata, moana, whenua / Damon Salesa.
Summary: Aotearoa New Zealand is home to a large Pasifika population. This illustrated history tells their stories - from the legendary feats of the ancestors of modern Maori, to the politically explosive dawn raids of the 1970s, and beyond. This book is illustrated with historical and contemporary photos and archival documents. Drawing on a rich cache of oral history, it is a record of over a thousand years of discovery, encounter, and cultural exchange.