“Goin’ Native!”: Depictions of the First Peoples from “Down Under”

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Jack Ford ◽  
Philip Cass
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
White Male ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
The Us ◽  
First Peoples ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Overview

Jack Ford and Philip Cass provide a critical overview of the history of absenting and misrepresenting Indigenous peoples of Australasia. And while they point out that the Australian and New Zealand comics markets were much smaller than those of the US, there was still a tradition of white male comic book storytellers creating both racist stereotypes and also complex Maori and Aboriginal characters and stories.

scholarly journals Establishing the John of God Movement in Australia

Ethnologies ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Rocha1
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
North American ◽  
Faith Healer ◽  
Aboriginal Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Settler Society

João de Deus (John of God) is a Brazilian faith healer who has been attracting a large number of followers outside his country. In the past decade, he has conducted international healing events in Germany, the US, and New Zealand, among others. As a consequence, John of God’s story has been told in documentaries on North American, British, Australian, and New Zealand television. Many of these documentaries have been uploaded by followers on You Tube. Such global exposure has been accompanied by intense flows of people, ideas, and commodities between Casa de Dom Inácio (John of God’s healing centre in Brazil) and these countries. In this paper, I track flows between Australia and Brazil. I argue that the position of Australia as a colonial-settler society, where the aboriginal population has suffered immense loss, entails a different understanding of John of God’s particular brand of Spiritism. For many followers, the arrival of the ‘entities’ (spirits John of God incorporates) is perceived as a way to heal the wounds of the land. Such understanding is not found among Spiritists and John of God followers in Brazil, although the country also has a history of dispossession and suffering among indigenous peoples.

Indigenous Peoples

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Te Paa-Daniel
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Treaty Of Waitangi ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Constitutional Revision

In 1992 the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia, which owed its origin ultimately to the work of Samuel Marsden and other missionaries, undertook a globally unprecedented project to redeem its inglorious colonial past, especially with respect to its treatment of indigenous Maori Anglicans. In this chapter Te Paa Daniel, an indigenous Anglican laywoman, explores the history of her Provincial Church in the Antipodes, outlining the facts of history, including the relationship with the Treaty of Waitangi, the period under Selwyn’s leadership, as experienced and understood from the perspective of Maori Anglicans. The chapter thus brings into view the events that informed and influenced the radical and globally unprecedented Constitutional Revision of 1992 which saw the creation of the partnership between different cultural jurisdictions (tikanga).

scholarly journals War and Defense onCerros de Trincherasin Sonora, México

2015 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall H. McGuire ◽  
Maria Elisa Villalpando
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Prehistoric Southwest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aboriginal History ◽  
Over Time

At the turn of the twenty-first century, critics suggested that warfare profoundly shaped cultural change in the prehistoric Southwest/Northwest. This challenge was part of a much larger debate concerning violence and warfare before civilization. It has become clear that scholars need to consider violence and warfare to understand the aboriginal history of the Southwest/ Northwest. Increasingly, archaeologists are asking: How did indigenous peoples practice war? How did warfare relate to social organization, adaptation, and religion? How did these relations change over time? Many authors have argued that we best answer these questions in well researched and carefully considered case studies. In Sonora, México, prehispanic peoples constructed terraces on isolated volcanic hills and built rooms, compounds, and other edifices on their summits to createcerros de trincheras. The Cerros de Trincheras and Defense Project mapped and collected Trincheras Tradition cerros de trincheras in Sonora. We used Geographic Information Systems analysis to demonstrate how thesecerros de trincheraswere defensive, what defenses protected, and how these relationships changed over time. This article compares Trincheras Traditioncerros de trincherasto general models of “primitive “ war, Yuman warfare, Andean Collapukaras, and New Zealand Maoripasin order to infer a Trinchereño way of war.

scholarly journals Stirring up Silence

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily George
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Meaningful Relationship ◽  
History Of

In 1999, Linda Tuhiwai Smith wrote that ‘The word ... ‘research’ is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world’s vocabulary. When mentioned in many indigenous contexts, it stirs up silence, it conjures up bad memories, it raises a smile that is knowing and distrustful.’ (1). Despite the efforts of many, anthropology in Aotearoa/New Zealand has a history of silence, possibly based on the memories of practitioners who, from the 1980s, lived through times of deep mistrust of anthropologists by Māori. As a student, then practitioner, of anthropology, I received many challenges to my status as an anthropologist and an indigenous academic from both indigenous and non-indigenous academics. Perhaps in order for anthropology to continue to have meaning for Māori and other indigenous peoples in Aotearoa, we need to thoroughly stir up that silence to see what lies beneath in order to fully engage in a truly meaningful relationship.

scholarly journals Indigenous Mobilities: Across the Antipodes and Beyond

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arini Loader
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Political History ◽  
Geographic Proximity ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
Aboriginal Australia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Oppression ◽  
Colonial Contact ◽  
Indigenous Land

Fittingly published on the eve of Tuia 250, Indigenous Mobilities urges us to think harder and with much more depth about the precise nature of colonial contact with Indigenous peoples and settlement on Indigenous land in the antipodes. Given our geographic proximity, the 200 or so year history of Māori in Australia and our entwined if equally divergent political history, it is surprising that scholarship taking in both the Australian and New Zealand contexts does not appear more frequently. Indeed, it is notable how often Aboriginal Australia is not brought into conversation with New Zealand Māori histories, experiences and aspirations. A welcome addition to scholarship which actively seeks Indigenous–Indigenous connection and recognition of our shared region, Indigenous Mobilities asks what happens when we read Māori and Aboriginal mobility alongside each other. The picture that emerges is a richly hued canvas of lives fully lived and places fully inhabited against a backdrop of colonial oppression.

Decolonising Ethics: Considerations of Power, Politics and Privilege in Aotearoa/New Zealand

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amohia Boulton
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Maori Health ◽  
Health And Well Being

Indigenous peoples across the world have a shared experience of colonisation; a process that has resulted in war, disease and the decimation of their lands, homes and peoples. In New Zealand, the effects of colonisation are still evident with Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) experiencing poorer outcomes compared with non-Māori citizens across a range of social, health and well-being indicators. This paper is a case study of work being done in New Zealand, which may have resonance with work in South Africa, and other countries with a history of colonisation. It begins with a brief history of the impacts of colonisation on Māori before considering the concept of decolonisation. The author outlines the work her organisation does as an independent, tribally owned, Māori health research centre to advance a decolonisation agenda. Reflecting on their emancipatory and democratising ambitions as researchers provides the opening for a discussion about indigenous ethics. The paper presents a number of Māori ethical principles that guide their work, arguing that were such principles applied in the development and implementation of social policy and legislation, the effect would be a fairer, more equitable policy that better meets the needs of Māori as citizens. Recent legislation enacted to improve New Zealand’s care and protection system for children is discussed to illustrate the need for greater consideration of Māori values when developing legislation that directly impacts Māori. The paper concludes with a challenge to policymakers, practitioners, academics, and researchers alike to actively contribute to an agenda of liberation, emancipation and decolonisation for indigenous peoples.

History of Medicine in Australia and New Zealand

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Bryder
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The State ◽  
International Medical ◽  
Geographical Region ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
History Of

This article considers trends in the writing of medical history in Australia and New Zealand since the 1980s. It traces the growing maturity of the discipline in this geographical region. It pinpoints a particular contribution to the wider discipline, the history of the health of indigenous peoples and their interaction with the state as well as the current political resonances of such historiography. It also shows how the history of health and medicine contributes to a broader understanding of those societies and their sense of nationalism or identity. Finally it addresses transnationalism in health histories and the ways in which medicine in these societies reflected or deviated from developments in the international medical community. This article demonstrates how international histories of medicine, as well as local social and political histories, have been enriched by this expanding historiography.

He Pou Hiringa: Grounding Science and Technology in Te Ao Māori

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
New Science ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

'The creation of new science requires moving beyond simply understanding one another's perspectives. We need to find transformative spaces for knowledge exchange and progress.' Māori have a long history of innovation based on mātauranga and tikanga – the knowledge and values passed down from ancestors. Yet Western science has routinely failed to acknowledge the contribution of Indigenous peoples and their vital worldviews. Drawing on the experiences of researchers and scientists from diverse backgrounds, this book raises two important questions. What contribution can mātauranga make to addressing grand challenges facing New Zealand and the world? And in turn, how can Western science and technology contribute to the wellbeing of Māori people and lands?

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