Fleet of Foot
The movement of Māori to the cities in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant movements of people in our recent history.
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Series: School Journal Level 4 May 2021
Reading year level: 7
Category: Fiction
Topics: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories, Auckland, change, choice, city, economics, employment, family, history, home, Māori, migration, movement, opportunity, Ponsonby, racism, social change, urbanisation, whānau, work
Fleet of Foot
Words by Paula Morris
Illustrations by Andrew Burdan
Paula Morris has used stories from her whānau as a basis for “Fleet of Foot”, a work of fiction that sits alongside “Kei Te Tāone Nui”, an article in the same journal that also explores the topic of Māori urbanisation. The text has links to the Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories curriculum.
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School Journal Level 4 May 2021
Inside this School Journal are two articles (Kei te Tāone Nui: Māori and the City [1945–1970]; Reducing our Footprint), two stories (Fleet of Foot; Please Don’t Tap the Glass), one memoir (Break-up Day), one comic (Press B), and one poem (Save the Earth Song).
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2 of 7Press B
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3 of 7Reducing our Footprint
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4 of 7Kei te Tāone Nui - Māori and the City (1945-1970)
The post-Second-World-War era in Aotearoa New Zealand saw one of the fastest rates of urban migration in the world.
5 of 7Save the Earth Song
Poet James Brown explores the perils of inertia and disassociation when it comes to climate change.
6 of 7Please Don't Tap the Glass
Author Rose Lu moved from Auckland to a much smaller place when she was twelve.
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