Māori Activism
Some of the longest running campaigns in New Zealand have been led by Māori, campaigning against injustices from breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Note that these sites and books are selected from my pakeha perspective as being useful case studies of Māori campaigns. I am sure there are other sites that I have neglected to mention and I welcome your suggestions.
- A timeline of Treaty campaigns and other Treaty-related events gives a good overview of the history of Māori campaigning. This is from the Government's Treaty of Waitangi website.
- The Evolution of Contemporary Māori Protest is a more radical version of the history, using a theory of class structure to analyse campaigns from the 1960s to the mid 1990s.
- Wai 262 Interview with Maui Solomon details one of the longest running Treaty of Waitangi claims on intellectual and cultural property rights. This interview is from a US-based online magazine and was written in 2001, during the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification.
- For updates on other recent Māori campaigns, the Arena website Tino Rangatiratanga section links to a number or articles.
- For a detailed history of 150 years of Māori campaigns, see Ranginui Walker's book, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End, published in 1990 by Penguin Books.
- The classic study of nineteenth century use of non-violent direct action by Māori in Taranaki is Dick Scott's Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka, due to be reprinted by Reed in 2004.
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