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Bula vinaka, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Talofa lava, Taloha ni, Warm Pasifika greetings. Nau mai, Haere mai ki te Puna Mātauranga. Discover good Pasifika resources for your assignments.

Current reports

Ministry for Pacific Peoples - Pacific Aotearoa Lalanga Fou (2018)
Visions and aspirations for Pacific Aotearoa
Pacific people in New Zealand: How are we doing? (2017).
Click here for links to Pacific health profiles reports

Pasifika stories online

Ko Au, ko Tamaki - I, Too, Am Auckland
Māori and Pasifika University of Auckland students share their educational experiences.
The Coconet TV
Pasifika - NZ On Screen: Documentaries include:
New Streets - South Auckland, Two Cities (1982)
Growth of Mangere and Otara in comparison with Howick and Pakuranga.
Dawn Raids
Children of the Migration (2004)
Knowing Pasifika Learners with Pale Sauni

Top picks

Tangata o le moana by Sean Mallon et al.
Dewey Number: 305.800993 TAN
Publication Date: 2012
Island time: New Zealand's Pacific futures by Damon Ieremia Salesa
Dewey Number: 305.8995 SAL
Publication Date: 2017
Afakasi woman by Karlo Mila
Dewey Number: 823.92 YOU
Publication Date: 2019

Pasifika in Aotearoa - Chapters in books

A land of milk and honey? Making sense of Aotearoa New Zealand by Avril Bell et al.
Dewey Number: 301.0993 LAN
Publication Date: 2017
Chapter 7. Deconstructing the Big Brown Tails/Tales: Pasifika Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand / Karlo Mila
Pacific history / by Brent Coutts et al.
Dewey Number: 990 COU
Publication Date: 2018
Chapter 8: Pasifika in New Zealand: Migration, Dawn raids and the Polynesian Panther Movement.
Justice & Race : Campaigns against racism and abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand by Oliver Sutherland
Dewey Number: 345.081 SUT
Publication Date: 2020

Growing up Pasifika

Tangata o te moana nui: The evolving identities of Pacific peoples in Aotearoa /New Zealand by Cluny Macpherson et al.
Dewey Number: 305.8994093 TAN
Publication Date: 2001
'Ātea, moana & vanua: Voices from the brown edge by 'Okusitino Māhina et al.
Dewey Number: 378.1983 AUC
Publication Date: 2007
Pacific identities and well-being: Cross cultural perspectives by Margaret Nelson Agee et al.
Publication Date: 2013
Print copies also available. Check the shelf at 616.8914 PAC
Caught between cultures: A New Zealand-born Pacific Island perspective by Jemaima Tiatia
Dewey Number: 279.3 TIA
Publication Date: 1988

Pasifika resistance

The platform: The radical legacy of the Polynesian Panthers by Melani Anae
Dewey Number: 305.8994 ANA
Publication Date: 2020
Polynesian Panthers : Pacific protest and affirmative action in Aotearoa New Zealand 1971-1981 by Melani Anae et al.
Dewey Number: 303.484 POL
Publication Date: 2015

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Subjects: Pacific, Pasifika