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Beginning with the Treaty of Waitangi, this paper looks at significant events and issues in the shaping of contemporary New Zealand society. Topics include: Colonisation: arrival of Europeans, Musket Wars, Treaty of Waitangi, alienation of land, NZ Wars, population decimation. 20th Century Recovery: Price of Citizenship, Maori Battalion, assimilation, racism. Renaissance: urbanisation, activism, Waitangi Tribunal. Revitalisation of culture: language, kapa haka, education, health, business, radio, television, film, sport. Current issues: Treaty settlements, tribal development, leadership, self-determination, indigenous human rights, biculturalism, multi-culturalism and identity
This course will provide an insight into Māori society in a time of change. Subjects will include changes to Māori society in the post-Treaty period. Impacts of a changing demographic on Māori, urbanisation and citizenship issues faced by a people who after the Treaty became citizens in a country they had inhabited for 800 years. The course will also follow the effects of assimilation and integration into a westernised civilisation over a period which begins with the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and ends in present day New Zealand society.
Goals of the Course:The goals of the course are to introduce students to:Colonisation of Māori: arrival of European explorers, missionaries and traders, disease, Musket Wars, Treaty of Waitangi, alienation of land, NZ Wars, Kings, prophets, guerrilla warfare, Pacifism, population decimation. 20th Century Recovery: Price of Citizenship, sacrifice of the Maori Battalion, assimilation, racism. Renaissance: urbanisation, youth protest, Waitangi Tribunal. Revitalisation of culture: language, kapa haka, education, health, business, radio, television, film, sport. New identities: Māori pan-tribalism, neo-tribalism, hybridity, cosmopolites and other emerging identities. Current issues: Treaty settlements, tribal development, leadership, self-determination, globalisation, indigenous human rights, Pakeha backlash, biculturalism and multi-culturalism.By the end of the course students will have:developed an appreciation of the Treaty and its impact on Māori explored how the Treaty has helped shaped race relations in Aotearoa - New Zealandconsidered the historical, social, cultural, political and contemporary implications of the Treaty.discussed various forms of cultural encounter underpinned by the Treaty and its principlesconsidered and evaluated their own pre-conceived perceptions about the Treaty and Māori
MAOR113 (prior to 2006)
Paul Whitinui
Domestic fee $619.00
International fee $2,688.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Aotahi School of Maori and Indigenous Studies .