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Paper, Pen, and Print: The Transformation of the Kai Tahu Knowledge Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2011

Tony Ballantyne
Tony Ballantyne
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University of Otago
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Knowledge has become a central problematic in recent work on cross-cultural encounters and the processes of empire building. In an array of contexts—from Spanish America to colonial South Africa, from Ireland to occupied Egypt, the American West to British India—anthropologists and historians have highlighted the ways in which “colonial knowledge” facilitated trade, the extraction of rent and taxes, conversion, and outright conquest. This scholarship has demonstrated how these new forms of understanding produced on imperial frontiers facilitated the actual extension of sovereignty and the consolidation of colonial authority: for Tzvetan Todorov, Bernard Cohn, and Nicholas Dirks alike, colonialism was a “conquest of knowledge.” Scholarship on empire building in the Americas has placed special emphasis on the place of literacy in the dynamics of conquest. Walter Mignolo in particular has argued that European understandings of the power of literacy encouraged Spaniards in the New World to discount the value of indigenous graphic systems and disparage Mesoamerican languages as untruthful, unreliable, and products of the Devil. For Mignolo, the dark side of the new knowledge orders born out of the Renaissance was a new interweaving of literacy, knowledge, and colonization in a new cultural order he dubs “coloniality.” In the North American literature, too, literacy has been seen as a crucial element in imperial intrusion and conquest. James Axtell, for example, has argued “The conquest of America was in part a victory of paper and print over memory and voice. The victors wrote their way to the New World and inscribed themselves on its maps.”

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 232 - 260
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51 On Kai Tahu English, see Anderson, Welcome of Strangers, 200.

52 It is also important to note that those Kai Tahu living on Ruapuke who worked to attain English did not access it as a freestanding language of commerce in the fashion that most colonists hoped. Instead they accessed it through the te reo and through the Bible: Wohlers noted that most of his congregation worked on their English by reading an English version of the New Testament alongside the vernacular version. Wohlers, J.F.H., Memories of the Life of J.F.H. Wohlers Missionary at Ruapuke, New Zealand: An Autobiography, Houghton, John, trans. (Otago Daily Times & Witness Newspapers, 1895)Google Scholar.

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55 For example, William Hirst of Sydney, who claimed to have purchased 20,000 acres of land north of Moeraki, from Tuhawaiki, was awarded just 263 acres in 1843. Deed-No. 443—Turton, Maori Deeds, 429.

56 It is important to understand that a context for this sale was the agreements signed between Kai Tahu's Ngati Toa and Te Ati Awa rivals and the New Zealand Company in late 1839, which sold a large portion of central New Zealand, including the northern portion of the South Island. In signing the Wentworth-Jones deed, these Kai Tahu chiefs hoped not only to gain financially from the transaction but also to assert their traditional rights and paramountcy over their own land. These deeds were also rendered invalid, since Captain Hobson had issued a proclamation on 30 January 1840, on the authority of Governor Gipps, which stated that all future private land sales would have no legal standing. Mackay, Alexander, A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island, 2 vols. ([New Zealand] Government Printer, 1872–1873), I, 23, 64–66Google Scholar; Evison, Harry, The Ngai Tahu Deeds: A Window on New Zealand History (Canterbury University Press, 2006), 40–45Google Scholar.

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60 Walter Baldock Durant Mantell, “Names of the Hapu of the Kai Tahu Tribe,” Misc-MS-0424, Hocken Collections, Dunedin.

61 Mantell's census of Ngai Tahu has also been pivotal in defining the basic parameters of tribal membership: see Ngaitahu Kaumatua Alive in 1848 as Established by the Maori Land Court in 1925 and the Ngai Tahu Census Committee in 1929 (Ngaitahu Maori Trust Board, 1967).

62 Reihana Moemate to Walter Mantell, 7 Dec. 1848, translations of letters to Mantell [MS 90], Misc-Ms-1338, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.

63 Matthias Tira to Walter Mantell, 20 Nov. 1848, in ibid.

64 After winning the seat for Wallace, Mantell entered Parliament in 1861. His growing commitment to supporting Kai Tahu claims underpinned a checkered parliamentary career, which saw him twice serving as “native minister” and twice resigning from the position when the government reneged on its commitments to address Kai Tahu claims.

65 Drawing from Certeau, Michel de, The Practice of Everyday Life, Rendall, Steven, trans. (University of California Press, 1984)Google Scholar, ch. 3.

66 Wi Pokuku, “Southland Myths and Traditions,” MS-Papers-1187-124, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington; Tiramorehu, Matiaha, Te Waiatatanga Mai o te Atua: South Island Traditions, Ballekom, Manu van and Harlow, Ray, eds. (University of Canterbury, 1987)Google Scholar.

67 Haami, Putea Whakairo, ch. 6. “Mutton-birding” refers to the annual harvest of juvenile sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus) from islands in Foveaux Strait by members of Kai Tahu.

68 Of course, this is not to suggest that written whakapapa were necessarily less selective in their recording of ancestors than the oral recitation of genealogies with the aid of rakau whakapapa: there is no doubt that written genealogies retained the political and potentially combative sensibility inherent within all whakapapa.

69 This characterization is based upon: “Book containing waiata and whakapapa by Hoani Matiu,” Beattie Papers, MS-582/F/19; “Whakapapa book,” Beattie Papers, MS-582/E/7; “Notebook of John Kahu,” accessed through Beattie Papers, MS-582/F/11; “Whakapapa,” Beattie Papers, MS-582/E/40, all in the Hocken Library, Dunedin.

70 E.g., see the use of John Kahu's notebook: “H21—Hoani Te Kaahu, ‘He korero mo Kati Tuhaitara,’ Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board: Papers relating to Kai Tahu claim brought before the Waitangi Tribunal” (Wai-27), AG-653/190, Hocken Library, Dunedin.

71 Te Maire Tau has stressed the cultural importance of these books and the benefits that have flowed from them to Kai Tahu. He notes that other iwi have become increasingly dependent on colonial legal records, especially Land Court minutes, for the reconstruction of whakapapa, a problematic legacy given the nature of those legal forums and the strikingly partial and adversarial forms of knowledge produced within them. Tau, Oral Traditions, 34.

72 Tau, “Death of Knowledge.”

73 See Lachy Paterson, Niupepa Maori, 1855–1863; and Curnow, Hopa, and McRae, eds., Rere Atu.

74 The leading stationer H. Wise & Co served as the agent for the newspaper Te Wananga (Te Wananga, vol. 2, no. 21, 25 Sept. 1875: 237).

75 Subscribers to the newspaper Te Waka Maori o Niu Tirani in the mid-1870s included Te Wehi (Otago Heads), Mere Kiheriki Hape, James Apes, Joseph Anaha, Tame Parata, Haereroa, Te Rangiahuta, Matthew Kapene (Waikouaiti), Ihaia Waitiri and Teone Topi (Ruapuke), Raniera Erihana, Hori and Tini Kerei Taiaroa (Otakou), Hone Mira (Purakanui), and Kereopa Maiatu and Matiaha Tiramorehu (Moeraki). See Te Waka Maori o Niu Tirani, 22 May 1872: 7; 22 Jan. 1873: 7; 11 Aug. 1874: 193; 1 Dec. 1874: 293; 8 June 1875: 117; 2 Nov. 1875: 250; 30 May 1876: 120; 19 Dec. 1876: 292; 22 May 1877: 27–28.

76 See Ballantyne, Tony, “Teaching Maori about Asia: Print Culture and Community Identity in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand,” in Moloughney, Brian and Johnson, Henry, eds., Asia in the Making of New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2006), 13–25Google Scholar.

77 On shops and machinery: Te Waka Maori o Niu Tirani, 22 Feb. 1876: 38; whakapapa and rights: Te Wananga, 9 Nov. 1878: 563; meetings: Te Wananga, 18 May 1878: 257–58; on the claim: Te Wananga, 26 Apr. 1875: 73.

78 See, for example, the report of Tutere Wi Repa (Ngati Porou, Ngati Kahungungu, and Te Whanau-a-Apanui) of Kai Tahu communities at Puketeraki, Waikouaiti, and Otakou, in the newspaper Pipiwharauroa: He Kupu Whakamarama, April 1900, 9–10, which noted the ways in which Kai Tahu work was connected with the colonial economy, the extent to which English was spoken by Kai Tahu communities, and the iwi's engagement with European culture while nevertheless affirming Kai Tahu's fundamental Maoriness. I would like to thank Lachy Paterson for pointing me to this account.

79 The Wairau purchase handed to Ngati Toa, Kai Tahu's enemies, the lands that they had captured in north Canterbury after their sacking of Kaiapoi pa in 1832. Tiramorehu's letter stressed that Ngati Toa had been driven back by a series of Kai Tahu raids in the mid-1830s, and therefore they had reasserted their mana over those lands once more.

80 New Zealand Spectator and Cook Strait's Guardian, 17 Feb. 1849: 3.

81 See Haereroa et al. to Mantell, 22 July 1857; Tiramorehu to Mantell, 14 Aug. 1857; and Ngai Tahu to Queen Victoria, 23 Sept. 1857, all in “Petitions from South Island Maoris re: land,” Mantell family: Papers, MS-Papers-0083-166, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.

82 H. K. Taiaroa to Governor, 5 Aug. 1866, encl. in The Hon. the Colonial Secretary to His Honor the Superintendent, Otago, 16 Oct. 1866, in Mackay, ed., Compendium, I, 143; Tribunal, Waitangi, “7: The Princes Street Reserve,” The Ngai Tahu Report 1991: Wai 27 (GP Publications, 1997Google Scholar).

83 “Transcript of Petition by Matiaha Tiramorehu and others…,” MS-0439/069, Hocken Collections, Dunedin.

84 “No. 116: Petition of H. K. Taiaroa, Esq., M.H.R.,” Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1882: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Nat1882Repo-t1-g1-t33.html.

85 “No. 419: Petition of H. K. Taiaroa,” Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1882: www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Nat1882Repo-t1-g1-t99.html.

86 Of course, Parliament was in many ways an institution that privileged orality, yet we must recognize that many speeches were written and were also profoundly intertextual since they referred to a wide range of documents and texts. Most importantly, the population at large accessed Parliament through written texts, especially in the form of reprinted speeches and in newspaper accounts of parliamentary debates.

87 Evison, Harry C., “Taiaroa, Hori Kerei ?–1905,” in Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 22 June 2007. URL: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/

88 Roger S. Oppenheim, Maori Death Customs (A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1973), 39; Hirini Moko Mead, Tikanga Maori, 280; also see Te'o Tuvale, “Mavaega,” in “An Account of Samoan History up to 1918,” Mitchell Library, Sydney, MSS 39, item C.

89 Otago Witness, 29 May 1875: 10; “Covenant 4 June 1875, Between Ngai Tahu, Ngati Mamoe, and H. K Taiaroa,” http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BIM839Kawe.html.

90 Innis, Empire and Communication; Innis, Harold A., The Bias of Communication (University of Toronto Press, 1951)Google Scholar.