Places to be 14 May 2015 With the new year in mind we’ve spun the globe and dispatched our correspondents to profile three new ’hoods we would be happy to call home for years to come. There’s an industrial area in Barcelona that’s proving fertile… ...
The Maori people are the indigenous people of New Zealand. Their name 'Maori' derives from Ma-Uri, meaning 'Children of Heaven'. Their nickname is 'Vikings of the Sunrise', because they were fierce warriors. Originally, they were hunters, but soon became peasants, living off agriculture. To...
The Maori peoples of New Zealand consider themselves its First Nations. There is much discussion and much dispute over the question of where they came from.
This first bloody encounter withNew Zealand’s indigenous people is a sobering harbinger for what follows. The Endeavour’s subsequent circumnavigationof the new land is an experience that breaks some men. Amidst the life-threatening challenges they face at sea and on land, Nicholas finds true lov...
The Mana Party is a reflection of the latter view, to which have been added those of assorted communists, socialists, anarchists and maori rights activists who can be roughly divided between (mostly Pakeha) anti-imperialists and (mostly maori) Â indigenous sovereignty supporters. There is cons...
called ourselves by the name given us by the indigenous people—Pakeha. No one even troubled to ask what this word meant; today a Maori is likely to tell you it means ‘rats’ or ‘fleas’ or some other troublesome pest, but it is probably a contraction ofpakepakeha, a mythological pale...
“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,”long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in...
— Lester-Irabinna Rigney’s “Internationalization of an Indigenous Anticolonial Cultural Critique of Research Methodologies: A Guide to Indigenist Research Methodology and Its Principles,” — Gorelick’s “Indigenous Sciences are not Pseudosciences,” ...
Waitangi Day has also become an occasion for reflection on the historical effects of European settlement on theindigenouspeople. Another, more sombre, public holiday isANZAC Day—April 25, the day in 1915 when amphibious New Zealand and Australian (ANZAC) forces landed at the Gallipoli Peninsula ...
In the later 1860s the fighting was of a different character, in which religion acted as a last, desperate stiffener of Māori resistance. Pai Mārire (Hauhauism), an amalgam of Jewish, Christian, and Indigenous beliefs, was the first (1862) of many movements in which the Māori, rejecting...