24 Cameron Bennett | The New Zealand Wars
After decades as one of the country’s best-known journalists, Cameron Bennett took on a unique new challenge: to educate the nation on the New Zealand Wars and help tell Māori stories.
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Explore "nz wars" with insightful episodes like "24 Cameron Bennett | The New Zealand Wars", "Podcast | NZ Wars - Stories of Tainui | Episode 3", "Colonial Mastermind: the story of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (part 2)", "Podcast | Taranaki Wars: Waitara and One Family's Journey" and "Headhunter: the story of Horatio Robley (part 1)" from podcasts like ""re_covering", "NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui", "Black Sheep", "NZ Wars: Stories of Waitara" and "Black Sheep"" and more!
Episodes (6)
Podcast | NZ Wars - Stories of Tainui | Episode 3
The war on Waikato reaches its climactic conclusion at the Battle of Ooraakau. But that's just the beginning of the struggle for Kiingitanga. Mihingaarangi Forbes and William Ray look at the aftermath of a war which changed Aotearoa forever. Made with the support of NZ On Air.
Colonial Mastermind: the story of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (part 2)
In part two of Black Sheep's series on Edward Gibbon Wakefield we see theories of "systematic" and "humanitarian" colonisation run into bitter realities. The result is conflict, death and disaster. For Wakefield and for Māori.
Podcast | Taranaki Wars: Waitara and One Family's Journey
In 1860 the shots fired sparked decades - arguably generations - of conflict. RNZ's Tim Watkin looks at what sparked the conflict and his ancestors' arrival in the midst of these tensions.
Headhunter: the story of Horatio Robley (part 1)
Horatio Robley witnessed the most famous battle of the New Zealand Wars, he fathered a child with the daughter of a sworn enemy, his sketching helped end a war, his book helped save the art of Maori tattooing... But mostly he's famous for his grotesque collection of nearly 40 human heads.
Honest Murderer: the story of John Bryce
Pākehā settlers in Taranaki knew John Bryce as "Honest John" but Taranaki Māori called him "Bryce Kōhuru" - Bryce the Murderer. In this episode of Black Sheep William Ray investigates the life of the infamous Native Affairs Minister.