College Station, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy
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    The Discovery of Islands and the Stories of Settlement
    Thesis Eleven 92 (1): 11-28. 2008.
    This article is a response to a paper presented to the New Zealand Historical Association in 1991 by J. G. A. Pocock, who suggests that Pakeha (European) settlers are now becoming tangata whenua (people of the land) in the same way that Maori did. The principal idea examined is what an `indigenous' identity means once historical claims have been settled by Maori against the Crown, and whether there is any merit in the term `indigenous'. The article then examines the logic behind the idea of `ori…Read more