About the Author

Danny Keenan (Ngati Te Whiti Ahi Ka, Te Atiawa) has a PhD in history from Massey University. He has worked in the Department of Maori Affairs and is a former senior lecturer in Maori/New Zealand history at Massey University, Palmerston North. He was visiting Fulbright professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, in 2009. He is now a full-time writer, and most recently, he has written 'Terror in Our Midst? Searching for Terror in Aotearoa New Zealand' and was the editor of 'HUIA Histories of Maori'.