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• The whence of the Māori : some nineteenth-century exercises in scientific method
• Treaties in British colonial policy : precedents for Waitangi
• How to civilise savages : some 'answers' from nineteenth-century New Zealand
• Folkland to bookland : F.D. Fenton and the enclosure of the Māori 'commons'
• Land purchase methods and their effect on Māori population, 1865-1901
• The Māori King movement, 1858-1885
• Polynesian corpuscles and pacific anthropology : the home-made anthropology of Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck
• Colonial rule and local response : Māori responses to European domination in New Zealand since 1860
• Māori representation in parliament
• Towards a radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history : the role of the Waitangi Tribunal
• Giving better effect to the treaty : some thoughts for 1990
• The Waitangi Tribunal and the resolution of Māori grievances
• Waitangi : Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou.

For over a half century, New Zealand's leading historian Keith Sorrenson-himself of mixed Maori and Pakeha descent-has dived deeper than anyone into the story of two peoples in New Zealand. From the origins of Maori (and Pakeha ideas about those origins), through land purchases and the King Movement of the nineteenth century, and on to twentieth century politics and the new history of the Waitangi Tribunal, Sorrenson brings together his major writing from the last 56 years into a powerful whole. Throughout his career, Sorrenson has been concerned with world views-to understand Maori conceptions of Kingitanga or Pakeha ideas of racial hierarchies from the inside. And he has been determined to tell the real story of Maori losses of land and their political responses as, in the face of Pakeha colonization, they became a minority in their own country. Ko te Whenua te Utu is a powerful history of Maori and Pakeha in New Zealand.
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• Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1; First Impressions of Pingelap and Conceptual Background; Chapter 2; History and Culture of Pingelap; Chapter 3; Habitat and Economy; Chapter 4; Boundaries, Norms, and Laws in Pingelapese Land Tenure; Chapter 5; Patterns of Pingelapese Land Inheritance; Chapter 6; Confirming the Division of Estates: The Derak Ceremony; Chapter 7; Land Tenure in the Pingelapese Colonies; Chapter 8; Pingelapese Land Tenure and External Relations; Chapter 9; The Pinelap Study in Comparative Perspective; Appendix: Catalogue of the Flora of Pingelap.

• Glossary of Micronesian TermsNotes; Bibliography; Index.

In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including such food plants as coconuts, breadfruit and taro. In this detailed examination of land-tenure practices in the atoll, David Damas argues that the resulting high level of subsistence has brought an expansion of the population which has put great pressures on land. Under these pressures, land tenure has moved from communal usage to lineage control, to individual ownership and transmission rights. Comparative material from neighbouring Mwaekil atoll indicates the same general succession from larger to smaller units of tenure with increasing population. While control of land by kin groups is usual in the Pacific, other atoll societies show examples of individual tenure which also relate to changes in population densities. Subsequent depopulation and emigration have not altered the fundamentals of the land-tenure system but have led to the emergence of a pattern of land stewardship. This has resulted in imbalances between the holdings of resident cultivators and those of absentee landowners. Comparative material from neighbouring Mwaekil atoll indicates the same general succession from larger to smaller units of tenure with increasing population. While control of land by kin groups is usual in the Pacific, other atoll societies show examples of individual tenure which also relate to changes in population densities. Bountiful Island will be of interest to all anthropologists studying cross-cultural comparisons in the theory of land-tenure practices and the ethnology, social anthropology and ethnohistory of Micronesia. This book is also suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural ecology and area courses on the Pacific.
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In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including such food plants as coconuts, breadfruit and taro. In this detailed examination of land-tenure practices in the atoll, David Damas argues that the resulting high level of subsistence has brought an expansion of the population which has put great pressures on land. Under these pressures, land tenure has moved from communal usage to lineage control, to individual ownership and transmission rights. Comparative material from neighbouring Mwaekil atoll indicates the same general succession from larger to smaller units of tenure with increasing population. While control of land by kin groups is usual in the Pacific, other atoll societies show examples of individual tenure which also relate to changes in population densities. Bountiful Island will be of interest to all anthropologists studying cross-cultural comparisons in the theory of land-tenure practices and the ethnology, social anthropology and ethnohistory of Micronesia. This book is also suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural ecology and area courses on the Pacific.
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• List of illustrations and maps
• Abbreviations
• Notes on written Maori language
• 1. Ngai Tabu before 1840
• 2. Maori Land Rights, the Treaty of Waitangi and the Wakefield scheme
• 3. The Otago Deed
• 4. Governor Grey and the Wairau Purchase
• 5. Kemp's Deed
• 6. Walter Mantell and the completion' of Kemp's Purchase
• 7. The Port Cooper Deed
• 8. The Port Levy Deed
• 9. The Murihiku Purchase
• 10. Governor Grey's record in South Island Maori affairs, 1845-53
• 11. The Akaroa Deed
• 12. The North Canterbury Deed
• 13. The Kaikoura Deed
• 14. The Arahura Deed
• 15. The Rakiura Deed
• 16. After the Deeds -- Appendix. The Treaty of Waitangi.

Re-examines New Zealand colonial history in the light of a number of original documents, particularly the ten Ngai Tahu deeds by which the Crown acquired Maori title to the southern half of New Zealand from 1844 to 1864. A unique feature of the book is its handsome colour reproductions of these deeds and their plans, published here for the first time.

• Acknowledgements-- Map-- Introduction--
• 1. Deep in the sandstone gorges--
• 2. Voices in the river: the poetry of belonging--
• 3. Growing--
• 4. Men's business--
• 5. Singing the native-born--
• 6. Women's business--
• 7. Four historians--
• 8. In search of the proper country-- Notes-- Works cited-- Index.
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This extraordinary book explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land. Always acting as a counterpoint is the prior occupation and ownership by Aboriginal people and their spiritual attachment. Peter Read asks the pivotal questions: What is the meaning of places important to non-Aboriginal Australians from which the indigenous people have already been dispossessed? How are contemporary Australians thinking through the problem of knowing that their places of attachment are also the places which Aboriginals loved - and lost? And are the sites of all our deep affections to be contested, articulated, shared, foregone or possessed absolutely? The book cleverly interweaves Read's analysis (and personal quest for belonging) with the voices of poets, musicians, artists, historians, young people, Asian Australians, farmers and seventh generation Australians.
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• MapsAcknowledgementsAuthor's Note1 Introduction: constructing the Pioneer LegendPart I - The pastoral memoirs2 Pioneering lives - John Costello, Robert Collins and Oscar de Satge3 Pioneering lives - Mary Durack and Alice Duncan-Kemp4 Karuwali lives - individuals and groups5 Karuwali Lives - attitudes to land and reactions to its lossPart II - Contesting the legend: other sources and debates6 The Karuwali and their neighbours in nineteenth-century records7 The decimation of the Karuwali8 Voices of protest9 Towards a shared historyNotesBibliographyIndex.
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"Frontier Lands and Pioneer Legends" reports from the frontier, the memoirs of five pioneering families who from the 1860s onwards "opened up" part of the Channel Country, an area of spinifex and sandhills in southwest Queensland. The subjects of these memoirs had much in common: the men were contemporaries; each owned sequentially one or more of the properties owned by other members of the five; two families were blood relatives; each acquired land belonging to the Karuwali people or their neighbours. Some memoirs present a conventional picture: brave and enterprising pioneers struggling against nature, their hard work in harsh conditions benefitting those who came after. But in some, darker elements come to the surface...Which version is the more valid? Here is Australia's remembered past at its most accessible: intriguing characters, both white and black, and a topical issue enlivened by a fresh approach.
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• Introduction: The Past as Future: Aborigines, Australia and the (Dis)Course of History BAIN ATTWOOD1. Aboriginal Histories, Australian Histories and the Law ROSEMARY HUNTER2. Native Title and Historical Tradition: Past and Present HENRY REYNOLDS3. Histories and Rituals: Land Claims int he Territory DEBORAH ROSE BIRD4. Historians, Aborigines and Australia: WRiting the National Past RICHARD BROOME5. Creating a Post-Mabo Archaeology of Australia TIM MURRAY6. Between Mabo and a Hard Place: Race and the Contradictions of Conservatism ANDREW MARKUS7. Mabo, Australia and the End of History BAIN ATTWOOD8. Aboriginality, Mabo and the Republic: Indigenising Australia JOHN MORTONEndnotesAcknowledgementsNotes on contributorsIndex.
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The "Mabo" decision of the High Court of Australia has provoked controversy as well as a sense of crisis in contemporary Australia. The ruling has wider implications than its relatively obvious legal and economic ones. This text considers the profound cultural and political consequences of "Mabo", which are sure to shape Australia's future beyond the end of this century, contributing to the debates about national identity. It includes chapters by leading historians, including Richard Broome, Rosemary Hunter, Jane Jacobs, Andrew Markus, Bain Atwood, Patrick Wolfe and Henry Reynolds.
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• Highland shepherd
• Pioneer
• Political apprentice & gadfly of privilege
• Foot soldier of Tiberius Gracchus
• Shepherd of men & land specialist
• Land debate
• Bursting up the great estates
• bursting up the greatest estate of all
• Ensuring the success of subdivision
• Other concerns of a land reformer
• Controversies in the career of Honest Jock
• Final journeys of a reluctant knight
• Assessment of McKenzie's land policies.

"Political biography of the Minister of Lands and Agriculture in the 1890s ... the legislator who 'burst up' the great pastoral estates and assisted in the establishment of the small family farm in New Zealand"--Back cover.

In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including such food plants as coconuts, breadfruit and taro. In this detailed examination of land-tenure practices in the atoll, David Damas argues that the resulting high level of subsistence has brought an expansion of the population which has put great pressures on land. Under these pressures, land tenure has moved from communal usage to lineage control, to individual ownership and transmission rights. Comparative material from neighbouring Mwaekil atoll indicates the same general succession from larger to smaller units of tenure with increasing population. While control of land by kin groups is usual in the Pacific, other atoll societies show examples of individual tenure which also relate to changes in population densities. Bountiful Island will be of interest to all anthropologists studying cross-cultural comparisons in the theory of land-tenure practices and the ethnology, social anthropology and ethnohistory of Micronesia. This book is also suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural ecology and area courses on the Pacific.
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• pt. I. History of the colony of New Zealand
• pt. II. On land claims in New Zealand
• pt. III. On the sale of Crown lands in New Zealand
• pt. IV. Aborigines of New Zealand
• pt. V. On the future prospects of the colony
• Appendix.