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Kei ngaa whaarangi o teenei pukapuka e hahua ake ana ngaa koorero o Tiitokowaru.
He rangatira ahurei, he tohunga amorangi, he toa kai pakanga, he aporei aarahi i oona iwi ki te nguha o riri whakauaua ki te aarai atu i te whakaariki e whakatangatanga mai raa ki te mana papatipu o oo raatou whenua.
Naa toona ake, naa Ruka Alan Broughton, ka puea ake ngaa koorero a Aotea waka moo Tiitokowaru; rerekee noa atu i te nuinga o ngaa koorero kua tuhia e ngaa kaituhi Paakehaa. Kei konei e whakanuia ai a Tiitokowaru, e waanangahia ai toona taha tangata me toona taha atua ki taa Aotea waananga. Kei konei hoki e utua ai ngaa whakapae, ngaa haahani i utaina ki te upoko o Tiitokowaru tae atu ki oona iwi. Ko te mutunga atu, kore rawa he toa kai pakanga o Aotearoa nei tee rite ki a Tiitokowaru.
This new edition of Ngaa mahi whakaari a Tiitokowawu is one of four new editions of essential reo Māori texts released in 2024 by Te Herenga Waka University Press, in collaboration with Te Takarangi, a national programme celebrating mātauranga Māori through Māori-authored works of non-fiction. The other three titles are:
Apirana Turupa Ngata: Āna tuhinga i roto i te reo Maori
Mohi Turei: Āna tuhinga i roto i te reo Maori
Rangiāhuta Alan Herewini Ruka Broughton (Ngā Rauru, Ngāti Ruanui) was a tohunga, Anglican priest, and university lecturer. He was born in Whanganui in 1940 and known as Ruka Broughton. In 1978 he began work as a lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, and together with Hirini Mead and Wiremu Parker he was influential in establishing a marae on the campus in 1985. He was an officiating tohunga at the opening of the exhibition Te Māori in New York. He completed an MA in 1979 with a thesis on Ngā Rauru presented entirely in the Taranaki dialect of te reo Māori. His thesis on Tītokowaru was published posthumously in 1993 as Ngaa Mahi Whakaari a Tiitokowaru.
Cover design: Tane Morris
