"While the Måaori Battalion fought overseas, the Måaori War Effort Organisation and its tribal committees engaged Måaori men and women throughout Aotearoa in the home guard, the women’s auxiliary forces, and national agricultural and industrial production. Måaori mobilisation was an exercise of rangatiratanga and it changed how Måaori engaged with the state. And, as Måaori men and women took up new roles, the war was to become a watershed event for Måaori society that set the stage for post-war urbanisation"--Publisher’s website.
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