The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has recently made available online around 14,000 pages of nineteenth century documents, largely written in Te Reo, as part of a collaboration with the Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law. These documents illustrate the bi-lingual nature of New Zealand’s legal history, and are testament to the strong engagement between nineteenth-century Māori and the colonial governments of that time. This presentation looks at the process involved in making this collection of texts available, and considers some of the technical and cultural issues associated with the project.

1. He Pātaka Kupu Ture The Legal Māori Archive New Zealand Electronic Text Centre www.nzetc.org