The weekly course readings will be uploaded to Moodle a week in advance. A wider reading list will also be made available. Students are expected to read the starred items that will also be uploaded to our Moodle page.

Selected readings will be providede for each class and uploaded to Moodle. Beyond that students are encouraged to read more widely on the following topics

The Doctrine of Discovery

Bess, Randall, ‘New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi and The Doctrine of Discovery: Implications for the Foreshore and Seabed’, Marine Policy, 35, (2011), pp. 85-94

Miller, Robert J, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Tracey Lindberg, Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)

Newcomb, Steven, Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (Golden: Chicago Review Press, 2008)

Newcomb, Steve, & Shawna Newcomb, “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code”, filmed at screening of their documentary, July 17, 2018, Oregon,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBno7CiSfU [accessed 27th October 2022 via Youtube]

The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code, Documentary directed by Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, 2014)

Ngata, Tina, “The Doctrine of Discovery”, in Kia-Mau: Resisting Colonial Fictions (Wellington: Rebel Press, 2019), pp. 13-18

The History of Treaty Making

Belmessous, Saliha, ed., Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion 1600-1900 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)

Bennett, R. S. (Rex Storey), Treaty to Treaty: a History of Early New Zealand from the Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 to the Treaty of Waitangi 1840 (Auckland: R.S. Bennett; c2007)

Calloway, Colin G, Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)

Harmon, Alexandra, ‘Indian Treaty History: A Subject for Agile Minds Oregon Historical Society’, Oregon Historical Quarterly, 106:3, (2005), pp. 358-373

Historical Background to Te Tiriti

Owens, J. M. R., ‘New Zealand before Annexation’, in The Oxford History of New Zealand, Second Edition, edited by Geoffrey W. Rice (Auckland: Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1992), pp. 28-53

Salmond, Anne, Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815 (Auckland: Viking, 1997), pp. 17-27

He Whakaputanga 1835

O'Malley, Vincent, & Aroha Harris, He Whakaputanga: The declaration of independence, 1835 (Wellington: Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o Te Kāwanatanga, 2017)

The Many Histories of Te Tiriti o Waitangi 1840

Calman, Ross., The Treaty of Waitangi (Oratia: Libro International, 2011)

Durie, E. T. J., 'The Treaty in Maori History', in Sovereignty and Indigenous Rights edited by William Renwick (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1991), pp. 156-69

King, Mike, Lost in translation the Treaty of Waitangi- nine Treaty sheets, 540 signatures, one founding document that continues to define New Zealand (N.Z: Ponsonby Productions Ltd. ; distributed by Filmshop.co.nz; c2009)

Moon, Paul, The Path to the Treaty of Waitangi (Auckland: David Ling, 2002)

Orange, Claudia, An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2015)

Orange, Claudia, The Treaty of Waitangi (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2015)

Walker, Ranginui, The Treaty of Waitangi (Auckland, 1983)

Kotahitanga and Mana Motuhake

Ballara, Angela, 'Wahine Rangatira: Maori women of rank and their role in the Women's Kotahitanga Movement of the 1890s', New Zealand Journal of History, 27:2, (1993), pp. 127-39

Cox, Lindsey, Kotahitanga: The Search for Maori Political Unity (Auckland:Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 43-57

Raupatu, Land Court, and The New Zealand Wars

Belich, James, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1986)

Brooking, Tom, '"Busting Up" The Greatest Estate of All: Liberal Maori Land Policy, 1891-1911', New Zealand Journal of History, 26:1, (1992), pp. 78-98

Cowan, James, The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period, Volume I: 1845-64 (Wellington: Govt Print, 1922)

O'Malley, Vincent, The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000 (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2016)

Williams, David V., ‘Te Kooti Tango Whenua’ The Native Land Court 1864-1909 (Wellington: Huia, 1999), pp. 63-76

Colonization, Assimilation, and Nation-Making

Gibbons, Peter, ‘Cultural Colonization and National Identity’, New Zealand Journal of History, 36:1, (2002), pp. 5-15

Byrnes, Giselle, Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand (Wellington: Bridget William Books, 2001)

Dalley, Bronwyn, & Gavin McClean, eds., Frontier of Dreams: the Story of New Zealand (Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 2005)

Hobsbawm, Eric, & Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983)

Mikaere, Ani, The Balance Destroyed: Consequences for Māori Women of the Colonisation of Tikanga Māori (Auckland: International Research Institute for Māori and Indigenous Education, 2003)

Mikaere, Ani, ‘Are We All New Zealanders now? A Māori Response to the Pākehā quest for indigeneity’, Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture, delivered at Maidment Theatre, Auckland, Monday 15th Nov 2004.

Ngata, A. T., The Price of Citizenship; Ngarimu V.C (Wellington: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1943)

Simon, Judith, & Linda Tuhiwai Smith, eds., A Civilising Mission? Perceptions and Representations of the New Zealand Native School System (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2001)

Sinclair, Keith, A Destiny Apart: New Zealand’s Search for National Identity (Wellington: Allen and Unwin/Port Nicholson press, 1986)

Protest and Cultural Redress

Harris, Aroha, Hīkoi: Forty Years of Maori Protest (Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2004)

Sharp, Andrew, Histories, Power and Loss Uses of the Past – A New Zealand Commentary (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2017)

Simon, Judith, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, eds., A Civilising Mission? Perceptions and Representations of the New Zealand Native School System (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2001)

Taonui, Rawiri, ‘Māori Urban Protest Movements’, in Huia Histories of Māori (Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2012), pp. 229-260

Walker, Ranginui, Ka Whawhai Tonu Mātou, Struggle Without End (Auckland: Penguin Books, 2004)

Walker, Ranginui, ‘Maori People since 1950’, in The Oxford History of New Zealand, Second Edition, edited by G. Rice (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 498-519

Waitangi Tribunal, Rapatu, and Settlement Claims

Hayward, Janine, The Waitangi Tribunal Te Roopu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2015)

Mutu, Margaret, The Treaty Claims Settlement Process in New Zealand and its Impact on Māori’, Land, 8:10, (2019), pp. 1-18

Stokes, Evelyn, ‘Pai Marire and Raupatu at Tauranga 1864-67’, New Zealand Journal of History, 31:1, (1997), pp. 58-84

Ward, Alan, An Unsettled History Treaty Claims in New Zealand Today (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2015)

Ward, Alan, ‘History and Historians before the Waitangi Tribunal’, New Zealand Journal of History, 24:2, (1990), pp. 150-67

Waitangi Tribunal, The Taranaki Report: Kaupapa Tuatahi (Wellington: Waitangi Tribunal, 1996), pp. 107-35

Waitangi Tribunal, The Muriwhenua Land Report (Wellington: Waitangi Tribunal, 1997), pp. 40-52

The History and Contest for Te Tiriti and Māori-Centric Language

Binney, Judith, Vincent O’Malley and Alan Ward, ‘Rangatiratanga and kāwanatanga: 1840-1860’, in Tangata Whenua: A History (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2015), pp. 199-200

Dam, Lincoln Dam, ‘Be(com)ing an Asian Tangata Tiriti’, Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences, (2022), pp. 1- 20

Kawharu, Hugh, Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi (Wellington: NZ Commission, 1990)

Ross, R. M., ‘Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Texts and Translations’, New Zealand Journal of History, 6:2, (1972), pp. 129-57

Smith, Graham, H., ‘Taha Māori: Pākehā Capture’, in Political Issues in N.Z. Education, edited by J. Codd, R.Harker & R. Nash (Palmerston North: Dumore Press, 1990), pp. 183-197

Soutar, Monty, ‘Kūpapa: A shift in meaning’, He Pukenga Korero, 6:2 (2001), pp. 35–39

Political and Cultural Commentary on the Te Tiriti

Barr, Hugh, Don Brash, Mike Butler, Reuben Chapple, Peter Cresswell, Bruce Moon, John Robinson and David Round, One Treaty, One Nation (Wellington: Tross Publishing, 2015)

Hill, Richard S., The Treaty of Waitangi today (Wellington: Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington; 2000)

Graham, Douglas, Trick or Treaty? (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 1997)

Mulholland, Malcolm, Veronica Tawhai, eds., Weeping Waters: The Treaty of Waitangi and Constitutional Change (Wellington: Huia, 2011)

Mutu, Margaret, 'To honour the treaty, we must first settle colonisation' (Moana Jackson 2015): the long road from colonial devastation to balance, peace and harmony’, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 49:1, (2019), pp. 4-18

O’Regan, Tipene, ‘Old Myths and New Politics’, New Zealand Journal of History, 26: 1, (1992), pp. 5-27

Robinson, John, Bruce Moon, David Round, Mike Butler, Hugh Barr, Peter Cresswell, Twisting the Treaty: a Tribal Grab for Wealth and Power (Tross Publishing, 2013)

Williams, David V., Merata Kawharu, Michael Belgrave, eds., Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives a on the Treaty of Waitangi (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Te Tiriti in Research, Ethics, Decolonization, and History

Ballara, Angela, ‘‚I riro i te hoko‛: Problems in Cross-Cultural Historical Scholarship’, New Zealand Journal of History, 34:1, (2000), pp. 20-33

Came, Heather, ‘Doing research in Aotearoa: a Pākehā exemplar of applying Te Ara Tika ethical framework’, Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences, 8:1-2, (2013), pp. 64-73

Hudson, Maui, Russell, Khyla, ‘The Treaty of Waitangi and Research Ethics in Aotearoa’, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 6:1, (2009), pp.61-68

Hutchings, Jessica, and Jenny-lee Morgan, eds., Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice (Wellington: NZCER, 2016)

Jackson, Moana, ‘Research and Colonisation of Māori Knowledge’, He Pukenga Kōrero, 4:1, (1998), pp. 69-76

Mahuika, Nēpia. ‘New Zealand History is Māori History: Tikanga as the Ethical Foundation of Historical Scholarship in Aotearoa New Zealand’, New Zealand Journal of History, 49:1, (2015), pp. 5-30

Mahuika, Nēpia, ‘How do we Decolonize New Zealand history?’, Kaiako Tāhuhu Kōrero/History Teacher Aotearoa, 1: 6, (2020), p. 22.

Paul, Daniel, We Were Not the Savages, First Nation History: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations (Halifax, NS: Fernwood, 2006)

Silcock, Mary, and Hocking, Clare, ‘Pakeha researchers, ethical research and Te Tiriti o Waitangi responsibility’, New Zealand Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68:1, (2021), pp. 27-33

Sleeper-Smith, Susan, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, & Scott M. Stevens, eds., Why You Can’t Teach United States History Without American Indians (North Carolina: North Carolina University Press & Chapel Hill, 2015)

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 1999)

Trask, Huanani-Kay, ‘From a Native daughter’, in The American Indian and the Problem of History, edited by Calvin Martin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 171-179

Wirihana, Rebecca, and Cherryl Smith, ‘Historical trauma. Healing, and Well-being in Maori Communities”, Mai Journal, 3:3, (2014), pp. 197-210

Te Tiriti and Māori History in the Curriculum and Schools

Barrington, M., and T. H. Beaglehole, Māori schools in a changing society: an historical review (Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1974)

Derbyshire, Alison, ‘Anyone’s but our own: The teaching of New Zealand history in New Zealand secondary schools 1925–2000’ (MA thesis, the University of Auckland, 2004)

Hanly, Tamsin, Critical Guide to Māori and Pākehā Histories of Aotearoa, 6 Book Set(Auckland: Curriculum Programme Resource, 2016)

Harcourt, Michael. E., ‘Teaching and Learning New Zealand’s difficult history of colonization in secondary school contexts’ (Unpublished PhD Thesis, Victoria University Wellington, 2020)

Huygens, Ingrid, ‘Pakeha and Tauiwi Treaty Education: an unrecognised decolonisation movement?’, Kotuitui, 11:2, (2016), pp. 146-158

Kaa, Hirini ; Willis, Emma, ‘Teaching the Totality of a Person: Manaakitanga, Kindness and Pedagogy: An Interview with Dr Hirini Kaa’, Addleton Academic PublishersKnowledge Cultures, 9:3, (2021), pp.158-168

Kaa, Hirini, ‘Aotearoa Histories: Decolonizing and Reindigenizing Church and Society in New Zealand’, Anglican Journal, 147:6, (2021), https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A669004131/AONE?u=waikato&sid=bookmakAONE&xid=cc2a90f2%3E

Loader, Arini, Basil Keane, Melissa Williams and Mike Stevens, ‘Forum: New Zealand History in Schools,’, in Te Pouhere Kōrero 9, Māori History, Māori Peoples, (2019), pp. 99 – 104

Manning, Richard F., ‘The New Zealand (School Curriculum) “History Wars”: The New Zealand Land Wars Petition and the Status of Māori Histories in New Zealand Schools (1877-2016)’, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 47:2 (2017), pp. 120- 13

Marker, Michael, ‘Teaching history from an Indigenous perspective: four windingpaths up the mountain’, in New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada, edited by Penny Clark (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011), pp. 97-112

Palmer, Georgia L., ‘Key Concepts in Māori and Iwi Histories: A Critique of Te Takanga o te Wā (2015)’ (Unpublished MA thesis, University of Waikato, 2022)

Palmer, Georgia L., ‘A Review of Maori History in Schooling and Curricula in Aotearoa New Zealand’ (Honours Dissertation, University of Waikato, 2021)

Stenson, Marcia Stenson, ‘History in New Zealand Schools’, New Zealand Journal of History, 24:2, (1990), pp. 168-181

Tamua, Michelle, Te Takanga o te Wā: Māori History Guidelines for Years 1-8 (Wellington: Ministry of Education, 2015)