So the people who had become our friends came with us through the mud carrying the children. They stood with us as we met up with the others and as we began to tangi for all that had happened, and for family long gone and recently gone, but who were amongst us still. We all stood close together about the urupa as we chanted the karakia and sang the waita tangi. It was our urupa, where as younger children we had listened and played, where we had told our stories and said our dreams into the ground. Potiki (120).
Encarta Online has a short article.
Auckland University has an extensive list of Grace's works and a bibliography of reviews and other secondary sources.
Span, an online journal, has a long article on Potiki written by Miriam Fuchs.
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