Angela Wanhalla Collection

Sarah Christie was a postdoctoral fellow in the History Programme at +t-kou Whakaihu Waka, where she completed her doctorate on the social and cultural histories of women in the workforce in New Zealand. She is currently a researcher at the Ng-i Tahu Archive, Christchurch. Erica Newman (Ng-puhi) is a senior lecturer at Te Tumu: School of M-ori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at +t-kou Whakaihu Waka. She researches adoption, wh-ngai, kinship and identity (internationally and nationally) with a focus on Indigenous perspectives, and has published on transracial adoption in New Zealand. Erica was awarded a Marsden Fund Fast-Start grant to explore the intergenerational impact of the 1955 Adoption Act and to journey with descendants of M-ori adoptees who are searching for their t+rangawaewae. Lachy Paterson is emeritus professor at Te Tumu, +t-kou Whakaihu Waka, where he taught te reo M-ori and M-ori history. He researches M-ori history, especially relating to newspapers and other texts in M-ori, and the relationship between M-ori and the government in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Angela Wanhalla (Ng-i Tahu, Ng-i Te Ruahikihiki, P-keh-) is a professor in the History Programme, +t-kou Whakaihu Waka. Her primary research area is M-ori womenGs history. Her most recent book is Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). Ross Webb has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and is a historian with an interest in organised labour and oral history. He is principal researcher analyst in the Research Team at the Waitangi Tribunal Unit, and is working on a book, GIn Defence of Living Standards: The Federation of Labour, Politics, and Economic Crisis, 1975G1987G.