Parihaka
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Parihaka is a community in the Taranaki region of New Zealand, located between Mount Taranaki and the Tasman Sea. In the 1870s and 1880s the settlement, then reputed to be the largest Māori village in
Parihaka: the grave of Te Whiti and the foundations of Te Raukura, 19 November 2005
Parihaka Maori settlement, Taranaki, New Zealand, c. 1880
Parihaka village (before 1886)
Te Whiti being led from Parihaka, November 1881
Witi Ihimaera
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Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler is a New Zealand author. Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people were ignored or mischaracter
Parihaka
…In 1989 musicians Tim Finn and Herbs released the song Parihaka about the incident. In 2011, New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera published a novel called The Parihaka Woman which provides a fictional story about a woman named Erenora from Parihaka but also provides much historical…
Ihimaera in November 2015
Ihimaera in Frankfurt in October 2012.
Plaque dedicated to Witi Ihimaera in Dunedin, on the Writers' Walk on the Octagon