This web feature was written by Steve Watters and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- Sealers and whalers from Australia were among New Zealand's earliest European visitors, and many of them brought important skills and knowledge. The early European influence on New Zealand was 'strained through Sydney first'. For more information on the early links with Australia see Early Arrivals: New Zealand – Australia's new frontier (Te Ara)
- Ruatara (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography)
- Barnet Burns (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography)
- Richard Barrett (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography)
- For more on the period prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 see Background to the Treaty.
- The Story of Richard (Dicky Barrett) (Puke Ariki)
- Cultural go-betweens (Te Ara)
Books
- James Belich, Making peoples, Penguin, Auckland, 1996
- Trevor Bentley, Pakeha Maori, Penguin, Auckland, 1999
- Trevor Bentley, Captured by Maori, Penguin, Auckland, 2004
- Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean (eds), Frontier of dreams, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 2005
