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• Hawaiki : the original home of the Maori : with a sketch of Polynesian history (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1910), by S. Percy Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hawaiki: the original home of the Maori; with a sketch of Polynesian history (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1921), by Stephenson Percy Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, c1961), by Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Native Hawaiian federal recognition : joint hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, and the Committee on Resources, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, on S. 2899 ... and H.R. 4904 .... (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Native Hawaiian federal recognition : joint hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, and the Committee on Resources, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, on S. 2899 ... and H.R. 4904 .... (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• The annexation of Hawaii : an address delivered before the National Geographic Society, at Washington, D.C., March 26, 1897 (Gibson Bros., printers, 1897), by John W. Foster (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Henry Obookiah, a native of the Sandwich Islands, who died at Cornwall, Connecticut, February 17, 1818, aged 26. (American Tract Society, 1835), by E. W. Dwight (page images at HathiTrust)

• Application of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in the state of Hawaii : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, on oversight hearing to receive testimony on the application of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in the state of Hawaii, December 8, 2004, Honolulu, HI. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Stirring Times of Te Rauparaha (Chief of the Ngatitoa); The Sacking of Kaiaphoia (Christchurch, NZ et al.: Whitcombe and Tombs, ca. 1906), by W. T. Locke Travers and James West Stack
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The story of Te Waharoa : a chapter in early New Zealand history, together with sketches of ancient Maori life and history (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1907), by John Alexander Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hawaiki : the original home of the Maori : with a sketch of Polynesian history (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1910), by S. Percy Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Zealand and the war (Smith, Elder, 1862), by William Swainson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Waikato war : together with some account of Te Kooti Rikirangi (Brett, 1923), by John Featon and Gilbert Mair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of Aotea (Lyttelton Times Co., 1924), by T. G. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early Rangitikei : a few notes, collected from various sources of the settlement on the Rangitikei River of a number of Maoris of different tribes : a short history of the purchase and colonization of the land between the Turakina and Oroua Rivers, and an account of the various pioneers (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1914), by James G. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Incidents of the Maori War : New Zealand in 1860-61 (R. Bentley, 1863), by James Edward Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maori king. (Macmillan, 1864), by John Eldon Gorst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Te Waharoa, a chapter in early New Zealand history; together with sketches of ancient Maori life and history. (Whitcombe and Tombs limited, 1906), by John Alexander Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Maori race (AMS Press, 1973), by Edward Tregear (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ancient history of the Māori, his mythology and traditions (Kiwi Publishers, 1997), by John White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reminiscences of a Minister for Native Affairs in New Zealand; being a corrected report in the New Zealand "Hansard" of a speech delivered (Government Printer, 1888), by James Crowe Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maori wars of the nineteenth century : the struggle of the northern against the southern Maori tribes prior to the colonisation of New Zealand in 1840 (Capper, 1984), by S. Percy Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kaiapohia : the story of a siege (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1893), by James West Stack (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South., by Thomas Lindsay Buick (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Maori Messenger (Ko te Karere Maori) (partial serial archives)
• Te Manuhiri Tuarangi Maori Intelligencer (1861) (full serial archives)
• History of the war in the north against the chief Heke, in the year 1845 (Richard Bentley, 1884), by Frederick Edward Maning, George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, and George Herbert Pembroke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketches of old New Zealand (Kiwi Publishers, 2000), by James Cowan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South., by Thomas Lindsay Buick (Gutenberg ebook)

• An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South., by Thomas Lindsay Buick (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Stirring Times of Te Rauparaha (Chief of the Ngatitoa); The Sacking of Kaiaphoia (Christchurch, NZ et al.: Whitcombe and Tombs, ca. 1906), by W. T. Locke Travers and James West Stack
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South., by Thomas Lindsay Buick (Gutenberg ebook)

• An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South., by Thomas Lindsay Buick (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History, by James Hawthorne (Gutenberg ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Memoirs of the Polynesian Society (partial serial archives)
• Hawaiki: the original home of the Maori; with a sketch of Polynesian history. (Whitcombe and Tombs limited, 1904), by S. Percy Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Easter Island, the Rapanui speech, and the peopling of southeast Polynesia (AMS Press, 1978), by William Churchill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The islanders of the Pacific; or, The children of the sun (T.F. Unwin ltd., 1921), by Reginald St.-Johnston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Melanesians and Polynesians; their life-histories described and compared (Macmillan and co., limited, 1910), by George Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les Polynésiens orientaux au contact de la civilisation (E. Leroux, 1909), by A. C. Eugène Caillot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gourd growers of the South Seas; an introduction to the study of the Lagenaria gourd in the culture of the Polynesians (The Gourd Society of America, 1943), by Ernest Stanley Dodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Chamites. (J. Maisonneuve, 1892), by Étienne Brosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the Polynesian race; its origins and migrations and the ancient history of the Hawaiian people to the times of Kamehameha I (Trübner & co., 1878), by Abraham Fornander and John F. G. Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origin and migrations of the Polynesian nation. ([etc] G. Robertson, 1877), by John Dunmore Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Polynesian wanderings; tracks of the migration deduced from an examination of the proto-Samoan content of Efaté and other languages of Melanesia. (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1911), by William Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The riddle of the Pacific (T. F. Unwin ltd., 1926), by J. Macmillan Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• View of the origin and migrations of the Polynesian nation; demonstrating their ancient discovery and progressive settlement of the continent of America. (Cochrane and M'Crone, 1834), by John Dunmore Lang, Abraham John Valpy, and Cochrane & Macrone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Polynésiens: leur origine, leurs migrations, leur langage (E. Leroux, 1880), by Pierre Adolphe Lesson and Ludovic Martinet (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Polinesia; descubrimiento, reseña y descripción geográficas, clima, constitución geológica, producción y población de las islas situadas en la región oriental del mar Pacífico; raza, idioma, historia, religión, gobierno, costumbres, cultura intelectual, industria y comercio ... principales viajes efectuados en aquella parte de la Oceanía por navegantes españoles y extranjeros ... importancia y porvenir comercial y político ... documentos inéditos relativos á su descubrimiento y un mapa general ... (Impr. de Fortanet, 1884), by Ricardo Beltrán y Rózpide (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easter Island ; the Rapanui speech and the peopling of southeast Polynesia (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1912), by William Churchill and Hippolyte Roussel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melanesians and Polynesians; their life-histories described and compared (B. Blom, 1910), by George Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the Polynesian race, its origins and migrations and the ancient history of the Hawaiian people to the times of Kamehameha I. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., ltd., 1890), by Abraham Fornander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Malaio-polynesische Wanderungen : Vortrag, Gehalten auf dem XIX : deutschen Geographentage zu Strassburg i. E., 4 juni 1914 (Simmel, 1914), by Georg Friederici (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hawaiki: the whence of the Maori; with a sketch of Polynesian history, being an introd. to the native history of Rarotonga. (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1898), by S. Percy Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sűdseevőlker und das Christenthum; eine ethnographische Untersuchung (F.w. Kalbersberg, 1844), by Carl Eduard Meinicke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Polynésiens et leurs migrations. (A. Bertrand, 1866), by A. de Quatrefages (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur l'histoire primitive des races océaniennes et américaines, lu à l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques les 9 et 16 septembre 1843 ... (impr. Panckoucke, 1843), by Gustave d' Eichthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index to "The Polynesian race" by Abraham Fornander (Bishop Museum Press, 1909), by John F. G. Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Polynésiens et leurs migrations (A. Bertrand, 1864), by A. de Quatrefages (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origins and migrations of the Polynesian nation; demonstrating their original discovery and progressive settlement of the continent of America. (Sampson Low, Martson, Low, and Searle, 1877), by John Dunmore Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Polynesian wanderings; tracks of the migration deduced from an examination of the proto-Samoan content of Efaté and other languages of Melanesia (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1911), by William Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maori and Polynesian, their origin, history, and culture (AMS Press, 1977), by J. Macmillan Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawaiki, the original home of the Maori; with a sketch of Polynesian history. (Whitcombe and Tombs limited, 1921), by S. Percy Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Greater Britain a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 (Macmillan, 1868), by Charles Wentworth Dilke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on an ethnographical collection from the west coast of North America (more especially California), Hawaii & Tahiti, formed during the voyage of Captain Vancouver, 1790-1795, and now in the British Museum (s.n., 1899), by O. M. Dalton (page images at HathiTrust)
• De mensch zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol (Bij Johannes Allart, 1802), by Martinus Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• De mensch zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol (Bij Johannes Allart, 1804), by Martinus Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les sauvages de la mer Pacifique, tableau pour décoration en papier peint (De l'Imprimerie de Moiroux, rue franche, 1804), by Joseph Dufour and Joseph Dufour et compagnie (page images at HathiTrust)
• À propos du peuplement de la Polynésie (Impr. C. Syffert, 1884), by Henri Jouan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The islanders of the Pacific; or, The children of the sun (Appleton, 1921), by Reginald St.-Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawaii aboriginal culture, A.D. 750 - A.D. 1778 (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1962), by Historic Sites Survey (U.S.) and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The problem of Polynesian origins (The Museum, 1930), by E. S. Craighill Handy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les Polynésiens: leur origine, leurs migrations, leur langage (E. Leroux, 1880), by Pierre Adolphe Lesson and Ludovic Martinet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The riddle of the Pacific (Small Maynard and Company, 1924), by J. Macmillan Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

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