Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman"Amiria is Amiria Manutahi Stirling, and this is her life story, the remarkable account of a woman born on the East Coast more than ninety years ago. The story begins with Amiria's birth at Tuparoa, a childhood spent in both her grandmother's raupo hut and the magnificent Williams homestead Kaharau ; it takes the reader through Amiria's schooldays, her taumau (arranged marriage to Eruera Stirling, farming on "The Coast" and latter days in Auckland, where the Stirlings lived as prominent elders until their deaths in 1983."--Preface. |
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Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman Amiria Manutahi Stirling,Anne Salmond No preview available - 2005 |
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