Stories and articles
Academia.edu papers
Paipera Tapu: A lasting taonga
https://www.academia.edu/42078971/Te_Paipera_Tapu_-a_lasting_taonga
Wound in the side of the nation
Taranaki Land Wars history needs healing
https://www.academia.edu/40657689/Wound_in_the_side_of_the_nation_Taranaki_land_wars_history_needs_healing
The First Maori Christmas
https://www.academia.edu/19757725/The_First_Maori_Christmas_1814_
William Colenso: Contending for the faith
https://www.academia.edu/13232354/William_Colenso_Contending_for_the_faith
Henry Williams and the Treaty of Tears: Colonial con or chiefly charter
https://www.academia.edu/13197618/Henry_Williams_and_the_Treaty_of_Tears_-_Colonial_con_or_chiefly_charter
Ratana the Prophet: The signs of the broken watch
https://www.academia.edu/13131775/Ratana_the_Prophet_Ma_te_wa_The_sign_of_the_broken_watch
Originally planned as a booklet but now presented for the first time as a digital document.
Peace-making in the Musket Wars
Forgiveness as a circuit-breaker
https://www.academia.edu/42583466/Peace_making_in_the_Musket_Wars_by_Keith_Newman20200402_68215_a2v9qk
Keith Newman at Arohanui church, Havelock North, (13-02-22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhRYc-RyBcE&t=1895s
Treaty killing Constitution rejected (June 22)
https://www.academia.edu/82019013/Treaty_killing_Constitution_rejected_Pushing_back_against_the_Empire
Te Temepara o te Haahi Ratana (The Ratana temple and Whare Maori)
https://www.godscollections.org/case-studies/te-temepara-o-te-haahi-ratana-the-ratana-temple-and-whare-maori?
Tongues of fire, clouds of ash:
T.W Ratana and Juji Nakada, Dec 2022https://www.academia.edu/91405291/Tongues_of_fire_clouds_of_ash_T_W_Ratana_and_Juji_Nakada_by_Keith_Newman_Dec
A heritage of hope
Samuel Marsden treated Ngapuhi chief Te Pahi and his nephew and his successor Ruatara with great kindness after they were abused at the hands of English sea captains at the turn of the 19th century.
He gave them seed and implements and at their invitation bought te rongopai or the ‘good news’ of Christ in the first sermon on New Zealand soil in the Bay of Islands, on Christmas Day 1814.
He returned seven times to mentor missionaries and Maori, the last only a month before his death in 1838.
Tamihana Te Rauparaha, the son of the great warrior chief Te Rauparaha and his cousin Matene Te Whiwhi learned the basics of being a Christ-follower from the Gospel of Luke in the Maori language, then invited missionaries to visit them.
From about 1834 the central message of love, forgiveness and equality under one God, spread rapidly across the country, largely through the agency of Maori teachers.
The Kapiti Coast cousins were instrumental in keeping inter-tribal peace in the once war-torn greater Wellington region and also helped shape the idea of a Maori King.
The Treaty of Waitangi, signed by Maori chiefs in 1840, promised a partnership or he iwi tahi tatou — two peoples as one nation. It was the first treaty of its kind between Britain and an indigenous people, largely brokered by missionaries and based on humanitarian Christian principals.
While less moral decision makers soon undermined treaty promises, in recent years much progress has been made toward restoring right relationships between New Zealand’s treaty partners.
Writer: Keith Newman, author of Ratana the Prophet (Penguin 2009) and Bible & Treaty (Penguin 2010). Image: Paula Novak. Email [email protected]
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Samuel Marsden treated Ngapuhi chief Te Pahi and his nephew and his successor Ruatara with great kindness after they were abused at the hands of English sea captains at the turn of the 19th century.
He gave them seed and implements and at their invitation bought te rongopai or the ‘good news’ of Christ in the first sermon on New Zealand soil in the Bay of Islands, on Christmas Day 1814.
He returned seven times to mentor missionaries and Maori, the last only a month before his death in 1838.
Tamihana Te Rauparaha, the son of the great warrior chief Te Rauparaha and his cousin Matene Te Whiwhi learned the basics of being a Christ-follower from the Gospel of Luke in the Maori language, then invited missionaries to visit them.
From about 1834 the central message of love, forgiveness and equality under one God, spread rapidly across the country, largely through the agency of Maori teachers.
The Kapiti Coast cousins were instrumental in keeping inter-tribal peace in the once war-torn greater Wellington region and also helped shape the idea of a Maori King.
The Treaty of Waitangi, signed by Maori chiefs in 1840, promised a partnership or he iwi tahi tatou — two peoples as one nation. It was the first treaty of its kind between Britain and an indigenous people, largely brokered by missionaries and based on humanitarian Christian principals.
While less moral decision makers soon undermined treaty promises, in recent years much progress has been made toward restoring right relationships between New Zealand’s treaty partners.
Writer: Keith Newman, author of Ratana the Prophet (Penguin 2009) and Bible & Treaty (Penguin 2010). Image: Paula Novak. Email [email protected]
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