Ask That Mountain

The Story of Parihaka

Dick Scott

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Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd
24 November 2008

Australasian & Pacific history; Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions; Indigenous peoples; Land rights

A fearless and ground-breaking investigation of the government-sanctioned land grab at Parihaka, and one of New Zealand's most influential, must-read histories.

Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand's colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha settlers in a struggle that swapped the weapons of war for the weapons of peace.

Taking as their symbol the white feather, the chiefs Te Whiti and Tohu led Parihaka in one of the world's first-recorded campaigns of passive resistance. Maori ploughmen wrote its message across the settlers' pastures, and Maori fencers underlined the point by throwing barriers across the queen's highways. Withstanding repeated military action, the spirit of resistance born at Parihaka kept alive the flame of that supposedly 'dying race', the Maori. Ask That Mountain draws on official papers, settler manuscripts and oral history to give the first complete account of what took place at Parihaka. Now in its ninth edition, this seminal work was in 1995 named by the Sunday Star-Times as one of the ten most important books published in New Zealand.

By: Dick Scott
Imprint: Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Edition: 9th New edition
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 189mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 592g
ISBN: 9780143010869
ISBN 10: 0143010867
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 24 November 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dick Scott was born in Palmerston North in 1923. After graduating from Massey College, he share-milked in a Maori farming community at Kai Iwi before pursuing a career as a journalist and historian. An award-winning author of many books, in 2007 Scott was awarded a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achivement (Non-fiction).

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Ask That Mountain

The Story of Parihaka

Dick Scott

$36.99

Paperback

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