Te Hau Kainga: The Maori Home Front during the Second World War

Taking readers to the farms and factories, the marae and churches where Maori lived, worked and raised their families, Te Hau Kainga tells the story of the profound transformation in Maori life during the Second World War.

While the Maori Battalion fought overseas, the Maori War Effort Organisation and its tribal committees engaged Maori men and women throughout Aotearoa in the home guard, the women’ s auxiliary forces, and national agricultural and industrial production. Maori mobilisation ...