Historian gets Parihaka poroporoaki Photo: Beatties Book Blog.
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Historian, academic and wool classer Hazel Riseborough, whose book on Taranaki land confiscations became a blueprint for research on the Taranaki Claims, has been farewelled at Parihaka.
Dr Riseborough died on Friday at her rest home in Taupo aged 90.
Parihaka spokesperson Ruakere Hond says the community asked for her to be brought to the pā for the final night before her funeral because of her long record of service.
He first remembers her visiting in 1983 while researching the doctoral thesis that became her book Days of Darkness: The Government and Parihaka. Taranaki 1878-84.