Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti, Te Ātiawa) is a Māori historian and writer, and was a founding member of Te Pouhere Kōrero, Māori Historians Network. He presents a Māori view on the Land Wars the at website www.newzealandwars.co.nz . He was born in New Plymouth in 1950.
Taranaki will tomorrow witness a formal reconciliation and settlement with the Crown. And like so much Maori history, it is about mana surviving, despite the odds, writes historian Danny Keenan.
What happened that morning in Parihaka on November 5, 1881? Te Whiti O Rongomai by Danny Keenan, a finalist in tonight's Ngā Kupu Ora Māori literature and journalism awards, sets the scene for the armed invasion.
