Salutary punishment : Taranaki Māori prisoners in Dunedin, 1869-72 and 1979-81 / Ian Church.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Background to the Pakakohi Prisoners -- Tītokowaru's war -- Surrender and trial -- Dunedin Goal -- Hard labour -- Religious services and visitors -- Deaths in exile -- Plan to settle prioners at Ōtākou -- Aspects of prison life -- Release and return home -- Resettlement -- Parihaka ploughmen and fencers -- Arrival in Dunedin -- The prisoners at work -- Life in Dunedin -- Release and return to Taranaki -- The aftermath -- The memorials -- Appendix 1: List of Pakakohi prisoners -- Appendix 2: List of Pakakohi survivors who returned home -- Appendix 3: List of native prisoners, Dunedin Goal, 11 August 1880 -- Reference -- Index -- Acknowledgements -- About the author.

The publishing of this book has been a long-awaited event for those who knew the years of research Ian Church put into it. The content will be to some, a story they have never been told, particularly the Pakakohi story, but it is a part of our past we should all learn. As a young teacher in Pātea in the 1970s Ian noticed the scars and stories on our landscape, when few others did. He asked questions and recorded information that most thought unimportant.