Miranda Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190600020
- eISBN:
- 9780190600051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190600020.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
Chapter 5 takes the story of indigenous activism to New Zealand where it chronicles how Maori activists contested the terms of their incorporation into a symbolic national story. Beginning with ...
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Chapter 5 takes the story of indigenous activism to New Zealand where it chronicles how Maori activists contested the terms of their incorporation into a symbolic national story. Beginning with protests against the interpretation of the colonial Treaty of Waitangi (1840) as making one people in the settler state, it follows young activists as they joined with older leaders to demand land rights and asserted their distinct identity. The chapter explores the significant reinterpretation of the treaty as recognizing Maori sovereignty in the context of a newly created commission of inquiry, the Waitangi Tribunal, established in 1975 to examine Maori grievances. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the 1987 Lands Case in the context of radical neoliberal reforms to New Zealand’s economy and considers how and why judges in that case recognized Maori as partners with the Crown.Less
Chapter 5 takes the story of indigenous activism to New Zealand where it chronicles how Maori activists contested the terms of their incorporation into a symbolic national story. Beginning with protests against the interpretation of the colonial Treaty of Waitangi (1840) as making one people in the settler state, it follows young activists as they joined with older leaders to demand land rights and asserted their distinct identity. The chapter explores the significant reinterpretation of the treaty as recognizing Maori sovereignty in the context of a newly created commission of inquiry, the Waitangi Tribunal, established in 1975 to examine Maori grievances. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the 1987 Lands Case in the context of radical neoliberal reforms to New Zealand’s economy and considers how and why judges in that case recognized Maori as partners with the Crown.
Miranda Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190600020
- eISBN:
- 9780190600051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190600020.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
The final chapter examines the possibilities of the principle of partnership for tribes, rejecting scholarly interpretations of this political moment in New Zealand as another example of coercive ...
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The final chapter examines the possibilities of the principle of partnership for tribes, rejecting scholarly interpretations of this political moment in New Zealand as another example of coercive incorporation of Maori into existing state hegemony. Focusing on the long-standing claim of Whanganui Maori to one of New Zealand’s longest rivers, the chapter examines why they received a very different hearing in the Waitangi Tribunal in 1994 than they had done in earlier legal cases. The chapter explores debates between Whanganui leaders, the tribunal’s chairperson Eddie Durie, and Crown lawyers about the nature of Maori history and the role of Maori in the settler state. The Waitangi Tribunal’s radical reinterpretation of the Whanganui claim opened the door for a reconsideration of the relationship between New Zealand’s different histories in pursuit of a postcolonial future.Less
The final chapter examines the possibilities of the principle of partnership for tribes, rejecting scholarly interpretations of this political moment in New Zealand as another example of coercive incorporation of Maori into existing state hegemony. Focusing on the long-standing claim of Whanganui Maori to one of New Zealand’s longest rivers, the chapter examines why they received a very different hearing in the Waitangi Tribunal in 1994 than they had done in earlier legal cases. The chapter explores debates between Whanganui leaders, the tribunal’s chairperson Eddie Durie, and Crown lawyers about the nature of Maori history and the role of Maori in the settler state. The Waitangi Tribunal’s radical reinterpretation of the Whanganui claim opened the door for a reconsideration of the relationship between New Zealand’s different histories in pursuit of a postcolonial future.
