ENGLISH

A Separate Authority (He Mana Motuhake), Volume I: Establishing the Tūhoe Māori Sanctuary in New Zealand, 1894–1915

By Steven Webster

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030410414, 9783030410421
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-41042-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6006374 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XLII, 402\431
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Social InequalitySocial Sciences; Social Anthropology; Ethnography;

Description

This book is an ethnohistorical reconstruction of the establishment in New Zealand of a rare case of Maori home-rule over their traditional domain, backed by a special statute and investigated by a Crown commission the majority of whom were Tūhoe leaders. However, by 1913 Tūhoe home-rule over this vast domain was being subverted by the Crown, which by 1926 had obtained three-quarters of their reserve. By the 1950s this vast area had become the rugged Urewera National Park, isolating over 200 small blocks retained by stubborn Tūhoe "non-sellers". After a century of resistance, in 2014 the Tūhoe finally regained statutory control over their ancestral domain and a detailed apology from the Crown.

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