Lecture 8
Nga mahi kino a Tauiwi
Chapter 6 Pg 195
Appendices 3- Place names
Doctrine of Discovery
- Mentality of White Christians is that they are superior. Similar to other indigenous cultures.
- Basis for racism. Entrenched in this culture. Cook approached NZ with this attitude as did Hobson.
- Outlawed after second world war- 1966
- 1970s -NZ first developed laws to outlaw racism. International Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination.
- NZ has struggled to acknowledge racism that is prevalent and now to fix it.
- NZ still rely of doctrine of discovery in treaty settlements
- Results in pakeha ownership, wealth and priveledge accumulation.
Racism- teachers need to protect children from it.
- - An attitude, not born with it.
- -races can be ranked in superiortity and inferioroty.
- - justifies that people can use power to descriminate and deprives others, based on race.
- -derives from Euro colonisation, justification in the oppressions
(Will be in test)
- Gipps told Hobson sovereignty means "crown owns all land"
- 'land sales'- none in Tai Tokerau until at least 1900s when Maori could speak English, The maori word did not exist until 1890s hoko whenua- sale of land
- 'surplus lands'- 1840 Crown issuing titles. Crown asks Pakeha what land do you have from Maori? Pakeha were allowed a certain amount of land. If it was over this allocation, it was claimed by Crown as 'surplus land' rather than given back to hapu.
- by fiat - because I said so.
- 'scrip lands'- some dishonest Pakeha claimed land. If hapu caught them out the crown then gave him some of Ngati Whatua land in Tamaki Makaurau. The Crown then kept the land.
- 'Crown grant'- this land was sold to Pakeha
- 'Crown purchase'-
- 'consideration'- token money given once land was stolen. Often was promised and not paid or paid to wrong person. Favoritism with certain Maori over others.
- Tuku whenua- Maori allowing Pakeha to use land. Pakeha arriving were destitute. Idea was for pakeha to stay with hapu
- Land was tuku whenua to Doctor Ford with promise that he would cure Maori of newly introduced diseases. Moved away and became "script land".