Native Schools to Kura Kaupapa Māori

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/arch.10618

Keywords:

Native Schools Act 1867, Archives New Zealand, Kura Tuatahi, Māori Schools

Abstract

This article briefly recounts the history of Native Schools set up under the Native Schools Act 1867. Many types of records and photographs of these schools are held at the Archives New Zealand Auckland office. These records provide insight into education practices and government policy of the day, so this article explains how these records can be used for research and genealogical purposes. Examples are discussed of the records providing information about the influence of Te Kooti and the devastation of the 1886 Tarawera eruption.

Metadata reused from the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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Author Biographies

Wendy Goldsmith, Archives New Zealand

Wendy Goldsmith is a history graduate who began working in archives at the Public Record Office in England. Wendy is now a New Zealand citizen, after immigrating in 1996. She started working for Archives New Zealand in Auckland in the same year.

Belinda Battley, Archives New Zealand

Belinda Battley is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of IT at Monash University. Her research interests relate to participation and rights in recordkeeping and archival processes, the significance of place in recordkeeping, and participatory and grounded research methodologies. Belinda has a Master’s degree in Information Studies and Library Studies from Victoria University of Wellington. She works as an archivist and an archives and recordkeeping educator, and is a Council member for the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ).

Katrina Tamaira, Archives New Zealand

Katrina Tamaira is a research archivist at Archives New Zealand’s Wellington office. She has a particular interest in the pitfalls, challenges and regeneration of Anglo-European archival practices and in their response to te mana motuhake and mātauranga Māori. In her spare time, Katrina likes to give herself wonky tattoos and currently lives in a leaky over-priced Wellington flat.

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Published

2018-01-01

Issue

No. 1 (2018)

Section

Articles