Richard S. Hill

Bio: Richard S. Hill is an academic researcher from Victoria University of Wellington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Indigenous & Aotearoa. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 9 publications receiving 212 citations.

State Authority/Indigenous Autonomy: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa 1900–1950

Abstract: his book provides an urgently needed overview of Maori quests for rangatiratanga/autonomy in the first half of the 20th century, and the Crown's responses to them.

Fitting Multiculturalism into Biculturalism: Maori–pasifika Relations in New Zealand from the 1960s

Abstract: “Race relations” are an ever-present topic of public discourse and state policy formation in New Zealand. The emphasis is generally upon the relationship between the indigenous Maori, on the one hand, and the state and the majority ethno-cultural population group, the European(especially British)-derived Pakeha, on the other. In particular, the past, present, and future of the nation’s foundational document, the Treaty of Waitangi, signed between the first nations and the British Crown in 1840, has dominated popular debate and official policy in recent decades. Other ethno-cultural and politico-constitutional relationships, including those between Maori and significant immigrant populations from countries within the Pacific region (Pasifika peoples), have received scant attention. This article examines Maori-Pasifika relations in the context of an emergent sociocultural and official biculturalism in New Zealand, investigating attempts to fit multicultural policies and practices within a broad bicultural framework. Tangata Whenua, the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand (frequently called Aotearoa), and Tagata Pasifika, peoples from Oceania, together comprise more than a fifth of New Zealand’s population. There are synergies between these two broad groupings, and some tensions too, as is inevitable in the processes of social adjustment to and by immigrant groupings and their descendants. This article analyzes the relationship between Maori and immigrant Pasifika people principally in the context of the most overt and long-lived struggle against assimilation in New Zealand, that waged by the Tangata Whenua, or “people of the land.” The approach, then, is limited but useful in exploring both initial synergies in the Maori-Pasifika relationship and later complications in this nexus. The article finishes by canvassing some contemporary perspectives that find reason for optimism Ethnohistory 57:2 (Spring 2010) DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-064 Copyright 2010 by American Society for Ethnohistory

Maori urban migration and the assertion of indigeneity in aotearoa/new zealand, 1945–1975

Abstract: This essay examines the exercise of indigenous agency during extensive Maori urban migration within Aotearoa/New Zealand in the decades following the Second World War. It argues that, contrary to official expectations and despite many difficulties, the longstanding indigenous quest for the state to recognize rangatiratanga (broadly, Maori autonomy) adapted successfully to the new urban and suburban environment. This defied the belief firmly held by governments and their officials, one shared by most within the British-derived dominant culture, that urbanization would greatly speed up a supposedly inevitable process of assimilation. The many modes of resistance to assimilation, and the great deal of organizational change which accompanied the urban migration, contributed eventually not to disappearing but to enhancing the cause of rangatiratanga – despite seemingly unpropitious circumstances. State-provided adjustment measures, for example, which had aimed at appropriating Maori organizational energies in ...

People, land and the struggle for rangatiratanga/autonomy in New Zealand

Abstract: This article interrogates indigeneity in the context of two New Zealand indigenous discourses, one of them land orientated and the other people orientated. It argues that the former has generally been emphasized over and above the latter, which it examines principally in terms of the struggle for the rangatiratanga (loosely translatable as autonomy) promised to Maori by the British Crown in the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840. People-based discourse is seen as key to the resilience of Maoridom and its powerful assertions of agency in recent decades. But to argue in this way is not to discount the land discourse, which in the holistic Maori worldview is conflated with the people discourse and rangatiratanga

The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

Abstract: Review of: The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 White, Richard

A Concise History of New Zealand

Abstract: New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million years ago, to the twenty-first century. Philippa Mein Smith highlights the effects of the country's smallness and isolation, from its late settlement by Polynesian voyagers and colonisation by Europeans - and the exchanges that made these people Maori and Pakeha - to the dramatic struggles over land and recent efforts to manage global forces.

Ko au ko Te Umutaoroa, ko Te Umutaoroa ko au: Toward a Patuheuheu Hapū Development Model

Abstract: . ............................................................................................................................ xiii PREFACE .............................................................................................................................. 1 Personal introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 Orthographic conventions ................................................................................................. 15 Patuheuheu hapū identity .................................................................................................. 16 A note on Te Umutaoroa and the chapter titles .............................................................. 18 Outline of the thesis ............................................................................................................ 18 CHAPTER ONE: Te Mauri Tangata Introduction and Methodology ......................... 2