ABOUT
This collection of personal stories is a record of our Pacific histories in Aotearoa New Zealand from the mid-1940s to the present. The writers are twenty amazing people, including community practitioners, public servants, musicians, academics and sportspeople. The stories express alofa, resilience and grit in the face of adversity, discrimination and systemic racism. Each contributors shows how by taking their cultural values into everything they do, they are diversifying and enriching our Pacific legacy and the national knowledge base, whilst at the same time shaping new Pacific pathways.
Written against the backdrop of a nation seeking to find itself and its place in the world navigating the complexities of Tiriti of Waitangi obligations, biculturalism and multiculturalism, and Pacific and international diplomacy, these accounts are also now part of the history of Aotearoa New Zealand.
editors
Tagaloatele Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, ONZM
Dr Amanda Lanuola Dunlop
fa'afetai to our contributing authors
Hana Fanene-Taiti Halalele, Matatumua Opeloge Ah Sam, Maliaga Erick, Saunoamaali'i Karanina Sumeo, Fonoti Pati Umaga, Lesieli Pelesikoti Tongati'o, Lealamanu'a Aiga Caroline Mareko, Richard Pamatatau, Sereana Naepi & Alumita Patterson, Elizabeth Wright-Koteka, Shaka Sola & Brownwen Sola, Taofia Beatrice Bryce, Fa'amoetauloa Frieda Richter Crawford, Fuimaono Karl Pulotu-Endemann, Rev Dr Feiloaiga Taule'ale'ausumai, Isabel Evans, Gagau Annandale-Stone, Alf Filipaina and, Repeka Lelaulu
more by editor
Tamaitai Samoa: Their Stories (1996)
Making Our Place: Growing Up PI In New Zealand (2003)