Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Waka across a watery world
- 2 Beachcrossers 1769–1839
- 3 Claiming the land 1840–1860
- 4 Remoter Australasia 1861–1890
- 5 Managing globalisation 1891–1913
- 6 ‘All flesh is as grass’ 1914–1929
- 7 Making New Zealand 1930–1949
- 8 Golden weather 1950–1972
- 9 Latest experiments 1973–1996
- 10 Treaty revival 1973–1999
- 11 Shaky ground
- Glossary Of maori words
- Timeline
- Sources of Quotations
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
10 - Treaty revival 1973–1999
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Waka across a watery world
- 2 Beachcrossers 1769–1839
- 3 Claiming the land 1840–1860
- 4 Remoter Australasia 1861–1890
- 5 Managing globalisation 1891–1913
- 6 ‘All flesh is as grass’ 1914–1929
- 7 Making New Zealand 1930–1949
- 8 Golden weather 1950–1972
- 9 Latest experiments 1973–1996
- 10 Treaty revival 1973–1999
- 11 Shaky ground
- Glossary Of maori words
- Timeline
- Sources of Quotations
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Expanding citizenship composed the second part of the greatest rupture in New Zealand history since colonisation, the New Zealand wars, and World War I. Rupture in the very meaning of New Zealandness obliged people to adapt to new ideas about who belonged. The country reshaped its political institutions to reflect that its people and culture had grown more diverse and connected to the world, and to accommodate the concept of biculturalism.
The treaty comes alive
Internally the Treaty of Waitangi's return to public life drove these changes. The wairua (spirit) of the treaty makes it unique in the world, determined its place in history and, in turn, shaped national myth-making in the late twentieth century. Gradually the Maori narrative of the treaty began to seep into public awareness. Maori had consistently called for the Crown to honour the treaty; pronounced a ‘simple nullity’ by the courts in 1877, its spirit stirred 100 years later not just in Maoridom but in the body politic, changing assumptions entrenched since 1840 about the importance of land to Maori and decision-making about paths ahead.
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- A Concise History of New Zealand , pp. 237 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011