A Separate Authority (He Mana Motuhake), Volume I: Establishing the Tūhoe Māori Sanctuary in New Zealand, 1894-1915

ISBN-13: 9783030410445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 402 str.

Steven Webster

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

1. A Brief Historical Overview

2. Ngāi Tūhoe and Te Urewera

3. Historical Background of the Urewera District Native Reserve

4.  A Preview of the Following Chapters

Part I: Tūhoe hapū and the Establishment of the Urewera District Native Reserve

Chapter 2:The Tūhoe rohe pōtae and the Urewera District Native Reserve Commission 

1. The general procedures and findings of the commission

2. The legitimacy of the Commission among Tūhoe  

Chapter 3: Difficulties of the commission defining Urewera blocks by hapū

1. Introduction

2. Changes in identification of Urewera hapū 1896-1907

3. Procedural precedents and compromises in the Te Waipotiki case

4. Establishing a system for assignment of relative shares

5. The resolution to expedite hearings and merge claims

6. The aborted plan for radical block amalgamations

Chapter 4: The Tamaikoha hapū branch: internal social organization

1. Introduction: the Tamaikoha kāwai or hapū branch

2. Sibling groups and surnames

3. Spouses, mothers, marriages, and land rights 

4. Difficulties determining hapū affiliations of the Tamaikoha hapū branch

Chapter 5: The Tamaikoha hapū branch: hapū affiliations

1. Introduction

2. Potential and active hapū affiliations

3. Ngāi Tokotuai hapū and claims to Tauwhare Manuka and Pukepohatu blocks

4. Te Urewera hapū and the claims to Whaitiripapa block

5. Ngāti Tāwhaki  hapū and the claims to Tarapounamu-Matawhero block

6. Further awards without formal claims

7. Block committee appointments

8. Conclusion

Chapter 6: Tūhoe hapū organization and the amalgamation plan

1. Introduction

2. The Ōhāua te Rangi amalgamation

3. The Parekohe amalgamation

4. Conclusion

Part II: Kinship and power in Ruatāhuna and Waikaremoana 1899-1913

Chapter 7: The Ruatāhuna-Waikaremoana migrant marriage alliance by 1898

1. Introduction

2. The migrant marriage alliance between Ruatāhuna and Waikaremoana areas

3. Kinship, affinity, and political activities of marriage alliance leaders

4. Conclusion

Chapter 8: Confrontations over Waikaremoana and Ruatāhuna 1899-1907

1. Introduction

2. Investigation of the Waikaremoana block 1899 - 1907

3. Investigation of the Ruatāhuna block 1899-1907

4. Conclusion

Chapter 9: The Ruatāhuna Partition, 1912

1. Introduction

2. Manawarū: the 'internal boundary dispute'

3. Numia Kererū builds his case

4. Conclusion

Chapter 10: Some Plausible Explanations

1. Introduction

2. Behind the scenes of the Ruatāhuna and Waikaremoana hearings 1900-1903

3. The emergence of Numia Kererū's strategy 1903-1907

4. Arranging succession to Te Whenuanui II's title

5. Conclusion

Part III: Conclusion 

Chapter 11: A Contemporary Retrospect: Getting to Know Ngāi Tūhoe

1. 'Kaupois' lost in Te Urewera

2. Tatau pounamu?: belatedly understanding some marriages 1890s - 1950s

3. The 1983 Tekaumārua at Ōhāua

O autorze

The resistance of the Tūhoe Māori of New Zealand to colonisation began more than century before the final return of their sanctuary in the Urewera mountains by the Crown in 2014. In Volume I of A Separate Authority (He Mana Motuhake), Steven Webster provides 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. This relatively benevolent colonial policy enabled the Tūhoe to control the establishment of their vast Native Reserve in a way that entrenched their social organisation, particularly their  traditional deployment of kin-based power, while at once manipulating the power of the Crown to their joint advantage from 1894 to 1908.  In Volume II, Webster documents how this same form of resistance enabled the Tūhoe to withstand predatory Crown policies between 1908 and 1926, thereby retaining remnants of their ancestral sanctuary—which later became the basis upon which they won statutory control of the territory.

In both volumes of A Separate Authority (He Mana  Motuhake), Webster takes the stance of an ethnohistorian: he not only examines the various ways control over the Urewera District Native Reserve (UDNR) was negotiated, subverted or betrayed, and renegotiated during this time period, but also focuses on the role of Māori hapū, ancestral descent groups and their leaders, including the political economic influence of extensive marriage alliances between them. The ethnohistorical approach developed here may be useful to other studies of governance, indigenous resistance, and reform, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere.

Blurb

"Tūhoe mana motuhake vs the force of New Zealand colonialism. This is a patient and perceptive work unraveling stratagems of contrasting ambition so we may comprehend the cultural instincts of 1890-1920 Aotearoa. Dr. Webster proves his deep understanding of kinship dynamics, hapū politics and the Tūhoe passion for autonomy.”

—Tāmati Kruger, Representative in the Tūhoe Te Uru Taumatua, New Zealand

The resistance of the Tūhoe Māori of New Zealand to colonisation began more than century before the final return of their sanctuary in the Urewera mountains by the Crown in 2014. In Volume I of A Separate Authority (He Mana Motuhake), Steven Webster provides 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. This relatively benevolent colonial policy enabled the Tūhoe to control the establishment of their vast Native Reserve in a way that entrenched their social organisation, particularly their  traditional deployment of kin-based power, while at once manipulating the power of the Crown to their joint advantage from 1894 to 1908.  In Volume II, Webster documents how this same form of resistance enabled the Tūhoe to withstand predatory Crown policies between 1908 and 1926, thereby retaining remnants of their ancestral sanctuary—which later became the basis upon which they won statutory control of the territory.