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The role of a narrative review can be to present a range of analogous views; which in this case is to explore the New Zealand Crown’s competitive and divisive treaty claims settlement process viz. the Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996, and the subsequent Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998.
The aim of this article is to record how a society of Maori, Ngai Tahu whanui, whose members often present themselves as tradition-based as to their identity and governance, are challenged by new frameworks of identification and governance proffered them by the prospect of legitimacy and success in the (post-) modern world.
This thesis examines modern iwi govemance systems and their effect on whakapapa
as an organisational framework in Mdori societies. The main question addressed was;
can whakapapa survive as an organisational process, or will it be stifled, as Maori
societies struggle to establish a strong identity in contemporary New Zealand.
This essay is designed to refine and complicate thinking about Maori and government relations in New Zealand- or Aotearoa, as it is increasingly called, following a Maori name for the north of the two main islands.
This article investigates the double-edged potentiality of the Waitangi Tribunal, an indigenous claims forum in New Zealand, and combines an ethnographic background to a recent claim with an anthropological interpretation of the meanings and outcomes of this encounter.
THE 1985 amendment to the Treaty of Waitangi Act extending the jurisdiction of the Waitangi Tribunal to hear claims arising from actions by the Crown since 1840, has been considered by many (especially Maori claimants) to be long overdue. It
Since the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975, the key mechanism of recognition for Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand has been ‘Treaty settlements’. These settlements offer some (very limited) compensation for historical injustices, as well as limited recognition of tribes as political partners to the state.
What is Indigenous Agency? And how can we identify this by researching historical newspaper databases? My thesis will explore Ngāi Tahu assertion of identity by examining Letters written in 1850-1940.
This chapter explores the changing contours of contemporary indigenous identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It challenges essentialist notions that Maori have ‘‘...singular, integral, altogether harmonious and unproblematic identities’’(Calhoun 1994, 13). It will be argued that rather than conceptualising Maori identities as the continual transmission of fixed cultural essences through time, ‘‘being Maori’’ should be approached as part of a more discontinuous process in which culture and tradition are continually made and remade.
One could easily be forgiven, in light of the apparent success of programs of reconciliation and rapprochement between indigenous peoples and settler governments in recent years, for thinking that the worst of the colonial legacy has been put behind us, and that – apart from the occasional deviation along the way - all that remained was mainly a matter of fine-tuning strategies of implementation.
The landmass of Aotearoa New Zealand totals some 268,000 km2, including 425,000 km of rivers, more than 4,000 lakes and approximately 200 aquifers.
For Aotearoa New Zealand's indigenous Maori, these freshwater bodies are part of a complex system of genealogical relationships from which derive the traditional Maori knowledge, values and ethics which shape Maori customary practices for freshwater monitoring and freshwater management.