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The Discovery of Islands and the Stories of Settlement

University of Canterbury, temaire.tau{at}canterbury.ac.nz

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 `original occupation' and the assumed rights associated with this concept.

Key Words: geneaology • indigenous identity • Immanuel Kant • Maori • New Zealand • J. G. A. Pocock • settler society • Jeremy Waldron

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