I Shall Not Die Teacher Notes Titokowaru’s War 1868–1869 History By James Belich

BOOK OVERVIEW I Shall Not Die describes the role that Titokowaru played in the Wars. It gives a fascinating insight into a person who, while not well known today, had the courage and tactical brilliance to hinder the European expansion into the region. Titokowaru was a tactical JAMES genius and the victories he had before losing the last of his battles were numerous. This book describes not only Titikowaru as a great tactician, BELICH but also a man who was humane and wanted peace for his people. I SHALL Key Features NOT DIE • written by a well-known New Zealand historian Titokowaru’s War • chronological narrative of events 1868–1869 • chapter 2 uses source material to portray in 1867–68, including a narrative description of a river journey and horse ride to the north • illustrations include a range of cartoons, photographs, maps and illustrations • concludes with glossary, abbreviations, references, select bibliography, list of illustrations and index. ABOUT THE AUTHOr RELEVANT ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS James Belich is a historian and Level Two academic whose writing has focused AS91234 Examine how a significant historical event affected New on reinterpreting nineteenth-century Zealand society New Zealand history, particularly the . His scholarship Level Three on Māori and Pākehā relations has AS91434 Research an historical event or place of significance to New received critical recognition and Zealanders, using primary and secondary sources his book, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation AS91435 Analyse an historical event, or place, of significance to New of Racial Conflict (1980), won the Zealanders international Trevor Reed Memorial AS91437 Analyse different perspectives of a contested event of Prize for historical scholarship. significance to New Zealanders He is a Professor of History, and in 2006 he was made an Officer of USING I Shall not die IN YOUR HISTORY PROGRAMME New Zealand Order of Merit. In 2011 This book gives teachers and students in-depth information on the Belich was appointed Beit Professor causes and the consequences of the New Zealand wars. of Commonwealth History at Oxford Students could: University. • compare Belich’s perspectives with those of others, either from other texts (see Further Reading) or with museum or local histories

Books in School Libraries • analyse the role that Titokowaru played in the Taranaki conflicts • research a place of significance to New Zealanders and use chapter 2 as a model for turning this research into a portrait of the place and time.

Cartoons and posters provide primary sources for discussion in class, assessments or activities.

If your students are doing any standards that are linked to the ideas of early contact, Treaty of Waitangi or race relations in New Zealand then this book will be useful in your reading list for assessments or as study for the external exams.

INDEPENDENT ENQUIRY The chronological structure of this text makes it accessible to the students to use for independent enquiry.

Further Reading James Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict, Penguin, 1988 James Belich, Making Peoples, Allen Lane/Penguin, 1996 Tim Ryan and Bill Parham, The Colonial New Zealand Wars, Grantham House, 1986 J. Cowan, The New Zealand Wars, Vols. I & II, W. A. G. Skinner, 1923 Graham Langton, Crisis in Race Relations. Authority, Land and War, 1853–65, Elizabethan Promotions, nd. Neil Finlay, Sacred Soil. Images and Stories of the New Zealand Wars, Random House, 1998 Alan Ward, A Show of Justice, Auckland University Press, 1995 Chris Grosz, Kimble Bent: Malcontent, Random House, 2011

■ BWB Publishing Trust would like to thank Chris Harris for these teacher notes.

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