> > Subject: my cousin's new book > > This review from a national New Zealand paper may remind you of some > readings about the Cherokee in the United States, their willingness to > adopt to American - European traditions and economics, their success, > and about the jealousies this spawned. When President Andrew Jackson > siezed their lands and properties, the Cherokee nation sued in court > and won a national Supreme Court decision in their favor. However, > the President ignored that decision, which wasn't enforceable, and > proceeded to evict the Cherokee to Oaklahoma. Promised food supplies, > clothing, and blankets did not show up, it was winter, and about one - > third of those on the Trail of Tears died on the journey from cold, > hunger, and pneumonia. > > The book was written by my cousin, adapted from her PhD thesis. Her > grandparents were from northern Croatia, on the coast and islands > areound Krk. > > Ashley > Sunday Star Times > http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaystartimes/3996538a19798.html > Books: All Black > Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 18 March 2007 several other reviews, then my cousin's book. Pakeha are white colonialists. Tangata whenua is probably the Maori word for themselves. > CHIEFS OF INDUSTRY: MAORI TRIBAL ENTERPRISE IN EARLY COLONIAL NEW > ZEALAND > By Hazel Petrie, Auckland University Press, $50 > Auckland business historian decisively overturns two commonly held > views about 19th-century Maori. One is the well-intentioned - but, in > fact, condescending - view that Maori in colonial times were the > guileless, time-trapped victims of Pakeha rapacity. The other is the > familiar redneck excuse that Maori were doing bugger-all anyway with > the land taken from them. On the contrary, Petrie shows that in early > decades of European settlement - up to the mid-1850s -Maori controlled > the food industry not just as market gardeners but as flour-millers. > They also dominated the coastal shipping trade - and their vessels > included schooners as well as canoes. Far from being constrained by > time-honoured tradition, the tangata whenua were quick to adapt their > ways to the commercial opportunities opened up by the influx of > Europeans. The bitter irony was that their success in cultivating new > crops made their land all the more desirable to colonists. Government > forces seizing territory during the wars of the 1860s often destroyed > flourishing wheat and dismantled highly functional Maori mills. Petrie > does not make any big, blustering claims for herself as a radical > theorist in this book, which grew out of her PhD thesis. She > concentrates on evidence, rather than rhetoric. But Chiefs of Industry > is one of the most thought-provoking New Zealand history books > produced so far this century.