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RESOURCES
SUPPORTING RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS
We have collated a list of connected and supporting resources for kura to use to guide their art projects. These resources relate to the theme "Legends Of Our Lands- Our People, Our Places, Our Stories'', with reference to a variety of Polynesian cultures, pūrākau, and historical figures.
The resource list is available for download below.
Legends
The theme can be separated into three possible areas to draw your inspiration from:
Creation Legends: stories of the origin of something, how the world and everything in it came to be. Often involving atua,
supernatural beings or events which explain the creation of environmental elements.
Historical Legends: Tell stories of specific people, ancestors, tupuna, events and the places our people inhabit.
Personal legends: Your stories, of people, places, islands and events within your own whakapapa, whānau, aiga, fanau.
Māori Pūrākau
Pasifika
Te Ara a Kewa
As told by Syd Cormack - Originally from School Journal 1993. Click here for scanned PDF copy.
He Kōrero mō te Pīngao
School Journal part 1, Number 2, 2001
Pīngao used to be used for tukutuku and raranga (weaving), but it was becoming scarce and hard to find.
Read this story of this taonga and how it was a gift given to us by Tāne Mahuta. Click here to access a scanned PDF copy.
Topic Explorer- Pūrākau (Māori Myths and Legends)
Explore Māori culture through pūrākau about the creation myths includingl atua (gods, goddesses), whenua, taniwha, Maui and the discovery of Aotearoa. SCIS no. 1808309.
https://natlib.govt.nz/schools/topics/57be1176125757465c00220f/purakau-maori-myths-and-legends
Tales from the mythologies of Creation, Maui and Aoraki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6q8E1laQjY
How the Kiwi Saved the Forest (Ready to Read)
Explorers of the Sunrise
Text and audio available
The Winds of Tawhirimatea
Connected 1, 2004
Click here to access a scanned PDF copy.
Kupe and the Giant Wheke
Reading Warrior Website
This website has a huge range of Pasifika resources. The author David Riley has a long background in teaching and used his experience and expertise to develop and design a range of books:
https://readingwarrior.com/workshops/
Pasifika Superheroes
https://readingwarrior.com/product-category/pasifika-superheroes/
Pacific History
https://readingwarrior.com/product-category/pacific-history/
The Legend of Sina and the Eel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb-tVzHiqtA
Pacific History & Legends
Our Pacific history & legends from the Pacific - delve into our unique history, folklore and mythology from the different Island cultures.
https://www.thecoconet.tv/know-your-roots/pacific-history-legends/
Places
Using a place-based approach to learning acknowledges that history occurs in a specific
context in Aotearoa or in the Pacific Islands.
A place-based approach helps students to develop new perspectives on where they are and allows them to personalise their learning.
They have an opportunity to look beyond written stories or academic articles, to personalised individual
accounts and whānau / aiga / anau / fanau experiences.
Local landmarks, place names, memorials, marae and local rūnanga can give students a place to start.
Whenua Māori
Pacific Islands
Ka Huru Manu
Ngāi Tahu Cultural Mapping Website & associated information. See over 1,000 original Māori place names, kā ara tawhito (traditional travel routes), and the original Māori land allocations in the Ngāi Tahu takiwā. https://kahurumanu.co.nz/atlas
Ngā Tātarakihi o Parihaka
(SJ L4, May 2016)
Children of the Pacific Book Series
https://childrenofthepacific.co.nz/
NZ Pacific Island Book Collection
The New Zealand Pacific Picture Book Collection is a collection of 36 picture books. It was created in order to make the limited number of books representing Pasifika stories and knowledge easily accessible to classroom teachers, and to provide suggestions for classroom activities linked to the New Zealand curriculum in order to integrate this knowledge into New Zealand classrooms.
The New Zealand Pacific Picture Book Collection books are not available as a unit, but most will be found in school libraries or through the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa.
https://pacificpicturebooks.co.nz/#
Milas Books
People
Historical Legends: Tell stories of specific people, ancestors, tupuna, events and the places our people inhabit.
Personal legends: Your stories, of people, places, islands and events within your own whakapapa, whānau, aiga, fanau.
Tangata Māori
Pasifika
Kia Kaha: A storybook of Māori who changed the world
by Stacey Morrison & Jeremy Sherlock
A powerful illustrated storybook for the tamariki and rangatahi of Aotearoa New Zealand celebrating Maoritanga!
KIA KAHA is a collection of true stories about amazing Maori who have achieved incredible things.
Te Kai a te Rangatira book
Leadership from the Māori World
Awe-inspiring collective wisdom and a snapshot into the current state of Māori leadership, this extraordinary book of interviews and photographs created by rangatahi enriches our understanding of what it means to be a leader.
Pasifika Heroes - series
A series of books on the achievers of the Pacific.
Each book features characters from legend, historical figures and contemporary achievers.
https://readingwarrior.com/product-category/pasifika-heroes/
Reading Legends
https://readingwarrior.com/product-category/reading-legends/
Olympic Islands
Olympic Islands celebrates the history and achievements of Pasifika Olympians.
https://readingwarrior.com/product/olympic-islands/
Ko Au Ko e Tama Niue
Fourteen Niue young people worked with teacher-writer David Riley, to bring you this book – Ko Au Ko e Tama Niue. The stories they’ve written demonstrate their immense pride in being Niue.
https://readingwarrior.com/product/ko-au-ko-e-tama-niue/
Keeping Our Stories Alive
School Journal Story Library Level 3
This book explores Samoan tatau in two parts: the first part is an interview with tattooist Tyla Vaeau and the second is a comic that retells how tatau came to Sāmoa.
The Sons of Ma'afu
SJ Level 2 - Oct 2015
A traditional story from Tonga, retold by Feana Tu‘akoi.
Make connections to the importance of stars for navigation. A final section provides factual information about the constellations mentioned in the story.
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