Book published on Maori and Pakeha unions and marriages

A Ngai Tahu historian has published a book about what she calls an unspoken part of New Zealand history – inter-racial Maori and Pakeha unions and marriages.

For the book, Matters of the Heart, the University of Otago’s Angela Wanhalla spent several years researching the unions spanning from when early settlers arrived.

Dr Wanhalla says it was some of the key findings about the reasons for inter-racial marriages found after the 1840s, that may surprise some people. Continue reading

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