Takahi: Colonisation

Description

This course focuses on understanding colonisation and its impact on Maori and other indigenous societies. Topics include: initial contact; disease; missionaries, God vs Gods; "guns and sex", musket wars vs traditional taua, wars with indigenous peoples; sovereignty, settler governments vs Kingitanga and Kotahitanga; changes in education, economics and social life; leaders, rebels, fugitives, prophets, pacifists and kupapa; assimilation and institutionalisation; resistance and political movements; dependence and welfare; the psychological and emotional violence of colonialism and dispossession. Comparative histories North America, Trail of Tears, Wounded Knee; Australia, Stolen Generations, Deaths in Custody.