Basil Keane

Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne



"Basil Keane (a good Keane man) is the Ministry for Culture and Heritage’s Director, Māori Digital Projects. With degrees in law and Māori studies, Basil makes a major contribution to morning teatime controversies, as well as overseeing all Te Ara content from a Māori perspective, and writing on many subjects."

Biographical sources

  • http://blog.teara.govt.nz/bloggers/ 18 November 2016
  • http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz/2007/07/pikihuia-awards-for-mori-writers-2007.html 18 November 2016

    Non-fiction

  • "Te Ara - Te Mātāpunenga o Aotearoa." Muka, 17.2 (Apr 2005): 9.
  • "Te ara - 'te rangi, te whenua me te moana'." Muka, 18.4 (Pip 2006): 3.
  • "Kotahitanga." Weeping waters : the Treaty of Waitangi and constitutional change. Ed. Mulholland, Malcolm & Tawhai, Veronica M. H. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia Publishers, 2010.
  • "Turangawaewae: Maori Relationships with the Great War." New Zealand society at war 1914-1918. Ed. Steven Loveridge. Wellington, N.Z.: Victoria University Press, 2016.
  • Co-author Steven Loveridge.