Full 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.
Contents
1. Introduction.- Part I Tūhoe Hapū and the Establishment of the Urewera District Native Reserve.- 2. The Tūhoe Rohe Pōtae and the Urewera District Native Reserve Commission.- 3. Difficulties of the Commission Defining Urewera Blocks by Hapū.- 4. The Tamaikoha Hapū Branch: Internal Social Organization.- 5. The Tamaikoha Hapū Branch: Hapū Affiliations.- 6. Tūhoe Hapū Organization and the Amalgamation Plan.- Part II Kinship and Power in Ruatāhuna and Waikaremoana, 1899-1913.- 7. The Ruatāhuna-Waikaremoana Migrant Marriage Alliance by 1898.- 8. Confrontations Over Waikaremoana and Ruatāhuna, 1899-1907.- 9. The Ruatāhuna Partition, 1912.- 10. Some Plausible Explanations.- Part III Conclusion.- 11. A Contemporary Retrospect: Getting to Know Ngāi Tūhoe.
