Ngā reo o ngā niupepa: Māori language newspapers 1855-1863

Maori social history;Maori religious history;Maori political history;Maori legal history;Maori commerce history;19th century Maori society;Maori newspapers;colonial discourse;race theory;Maori language;translation;propaganda;mana and tino rangatiratanga;New Zealand Wars;Kohimarama Conference;Gov. Thomas Gore Browne;Gov. Sir George Grey;Maori King Movement;DU Oceania (South Seas)

Paterson, Lachlan

University of Otago

关键词: Maori social history;    Maori religious history;    Maori political history;    Maori legal history;    Maori commerce history;    19th century Maori society;    Maori newspapers;    colonial discourse;    race theory;    Maori language;    translation;    propaganda;    mana and tino rangatiratanga;    New Zealand Wars;    Kohimarama Conference;    Gov. Thomas Gore Browne;    Gov. Sir George Grey;    Maori King Movement;    DU Oceania (South Seas);   

Others  :  https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/bitstream/10523/5144/4/Paterson_English.pdf

来源: Otago University Research Archive

【 摘 要 】

By 1855, most Māori still lived in a tribal setting, with little official Pākehā interference. This would have been as they expected, exercising their tino rangatiratanga, the chiefly rights guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi. However, their world was changing.In an effort to gain Pākehā goods, many Māori had entered the market economy. Most had converted to Christianity. Many could read and write. Some sold land to accommodate the increasing number of Pākehā settlers. These trends gratified the government. It envisaged a New Zealand society dominated by Pākehā, in which European mores would be norm, and where its sovereignty, gained through the Treaty, would be more substantive rather than nominal.At this tme, the government pursued the policy of iwi kotahi (one people) or