Nikki Walker

Ngāti Kahungunu

Nikki Walker has been a journalist for Te Iwi o Aotearoa.

    Non-fiction

  • "Māori Biographies: Compiled by George F Kiwi Howe 1960." ibid. 7.
  • Walker writes of Te Iwi o Aotearoa’s project to publish the work of genealogist George Kiwi Howe (1917-1962) and calls for other contributions from ‘150 years of achievers under British rule’ to expand this publication to include biographies of ‘achievers’ up to the year 1990. Walker also provides an edited version of Howe’s biography of Sir Maui Pomare.
  • "Māori Biographies Compiled by George F Kiwi Howe 1960." ibid. 22.
  • Walker includes an edited version of Howe’s biograhical notes of Te Puea Herangi.
  • "Māori Biographies Compiled by George F Kiwi Howe 1960." Te Iwi o Aotearoa 22 (June 1989): 12.
  • Walker provides background information to George Kiwi Howe’s extensive collection of biographies of key Māori identities and reproduces his texts on Titokowaru and Whetu Marama Tirikatene.
  • "Māori Biographies Compiled by George F Kiwi Howe 1960." Te Iwi o Aotearoa 24 (Aug 1989): 17.
  • Walker produces the text of Howe’s biography of Sir Apirana Ngata.
  • "Major W. Porter - 28th Māori Battalion." Te Iwi o Aotearoa 25 (Sep 1989): 4.
  • Walker writes of the war-time exploits of Major W. (Ben) Porter M.C. and Bar of A Company - 28th Māori Battalion.
  • "Titewhai Harawira." Te Iwi o Aotearoa 26 (Oct. 1989): 5.
  • Walker talks with Harawira about her experiences in Mount Eden prison, her involvement with the International Black Women’s Organisation, her cynicism over the 1990 ‘celebrations’ and her outrage at the way many Māori women have been victim of rape and incest by Māori men.
  • "Life on the Coast." Te Iwi o Aotearoa 26 (Oct. 1989): 23.
  • Walker provides a brief review of Jill Carlyle’s exhibition of 38 black and white photographs entitled "Life on the Coast" shown in various locations in October and November 1989.
  • "Māori Biographies Compiled by George F Kiwi Howe 1960." Te Iwi o Aotearoa 27 (Nov. 1989): 20.
  • Walker writes of the proposed publication of George Howe’s Māori Biographies and Te Iwi o Aotearoa’s plan to supplement Howe’s work with biographies of other Māori achievers up to the year 1990. Walker includes two of Howe’s biographies in this article - those of musician and composer Walter Smith and famous rugby player George Nepia.
  • "He Pito Whakaatu Na James McDonald 1908-1923." Te Iwi o Aotearoa 28 (Dec. 1989): 4.
  • Walker writes of an exhibition of photographs and films of Māori produced by James McDonald from 1908-1923 which were exhibited at the National Library and Theatre from 1-8 December 1989. The 45 black and white photographs were drawn from McDonald’s trip up the Whanganui River in 1921, and include views of the Hui at Rotorua racecourse in 1920 to welcome the Prince of Wales and a set of photos taken in 1919 when the Māori Pioneer Battalion were welcomed home.
  • "Fade to Black." Te Iwi o Aotearoa 28 (Dec. 1989): 8.
  • Walker interviews the three members of ‘Fade to Black’ - Bill Young, John Brown and Bradford Haami who composed the music and lyrics of the winning song ‘Living Dangerously’ in Te Iwi o Aotearoa’s 1989 Songquest.
  • "Ngāti Whatua Wahine Toa." Te Iwi o Aotearoa 28 (Dec. 1989): 8.
  • Walker reports on a Ngāti Whatua hui held in Epsom in November with the aim of encouraging Māori women’s hui based on the Putea Pounamu project developed by Te Ohu Whakatupu - The Māori Women’s Secretariat of Women’s Affairs.