3. settlement
• trading partners in area 1500-1600s
• Captain Cook -- 1769
• white settlers -- 1800s
• massive disruption to way of life
• missionaries -- introduce christianity
• traders brings guns and disease
4. treaty of waitangi 1840
• british whalers breaking laws
• missionaries and maori worked to forge
treaty with the Crown
• 40 Maori chiefs sign (but not all)
• British got more colonies for their empire
• access to natural resources
• labor
5. treaty rights
• Maori
• same rights as british subjects
• chieftanship (Maori understanding)
• maintain their land and mineral rights &
possessions
• British
• “sovereigns” (make laws, define govt.,
take social action)
6. policies
• settlement (1861-1945)
• Maori land sold (should not have been)
• english only policy in schools
• “debt foreclosures” (created “slave”
classes”
• treaty -- nullified (attempt)
• peaceful resistance
7. policies
• assimilation (1945-late 1970s)
• Native dept. / Maori councils
• Maori urbanization began late 1920s--
present--created underclass
• treaty/ land rights resurgence 1960s--
present
• Waitangi Day
• language / culture integrated state levels
8. biculturalism
• official state policy after 1970s
• guaranteed seats in Parliament
• official language in govt and in nation
• traditional descent lines recognized through
iwis
• causes some stratification
• urban underclass and “traditionalists”
9. author & characters
• Duff (1990)
• his voice
• his stance/position
• Characters
• Themes
