TY - ABST T1 - "Ngati Kangaru" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Patricia Grace KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Māori author AB -

Humorous Māori eutopia in which the Māori reclaim Aotearoa New Zealand from the pākehā (Europeans) who tricked their ancestors into signing over land. Since the pākehā used deeds signed by people who didn't own the land, they did the same and occupied resorts, summer homes, and golf courses when not being used and central Auckland where no one lived anymore. Families moved in and business catering to them opened. Her best-known novel, Potiki, Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books (N.Z.), 1986, resonates with this story in that it is concerned with Māori defending their ancestral land from developers.

JF - The Sky People and Other Stories PB - Penguin (NZ) CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. (London: Women's Press, 1994), 25-43. Story rpt. in Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing. Comp. and ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas (Alice Springs, NT, Australia: Jukurrpa Books, 2000), 131-44.

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