This page contains resources related to Rarotonga and the other islands of the Cook Islands, and the languages and cultures of those islands. We hope to add to this page, and we invite you to submit worthwhile links or other resources to be listed on this page.

Buse, Jasper with Taringa, Raututi (Bruce Biggs and Rangi Moeka‘a, eds.). (1996). Cook Islands Maori Dictionary with English-Cook Islands Maori Finder List. Avarua, Rarotonga: The Ministry of Education, Government of the Cook Islands; The School of Oriental and African Studies, The University of London; The Institute of Pacific Studies, The University of the South Pacific; The Centre for Pacific Studies, The University of Auckland; Pacific Linguistics, The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Austrailian National University.

Carpentier, Tai Tepuaoterā Turepu and Beaumont, Clive. (1995). Kai kōrero: A Cook Islands Maori language coursebook. Auckland, New Zealand: Pasifika Press. [includes one audio cassette]

Cook Island News. (n.d.). Available at http://www.cinews.co.ck/ or at http://www.cookislandsnews.com/index.htm.

Cook Islands Ministry of Cultural Development. (n.d.). Available at http://www.culture.gov.ck/.

Roscoe, Paul B. (1987). Of canoes and castaways: Reassessing the population of Tongareva (Penrhyn Island) at contact. Pacific Studies. 11(1), 43-61. Available at http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/PacificStudies&CISOPTR=1233

van Lier, Father Floribert, ss.cc. (n.d.). Let us speak Rarotongan Maori: Ka tuatua Maori tatou (third ed.). Porirua, New Zealand: self-published. [Second edition was published in 1962.]