Index

Achebe, Chinua, 200
Adds, Peter, xvii
Adventures of Vela, The (Wendt), 241n5
Aikau, Hokulani, 22, 205, 240n25
Air New Zealand, 125–26
Akwesasne Notes newspaper, 107–8
All Blacks national rugby team, 133
Allen, Chadwick, 8, 199, 247n29
American Indian Movement (AIM), 107–8. See also Native Americans
American Samoa, 175
Anae, Melani, 110
Anderson, Jean, 81
And What Remains (George), 242n3
Anglophone Indigenous literary studies, xxvii, 29–30, 193–95, 220n23
Annan, Kofi, 147, 241n14
Aotearoa: Campbell’s connections to, 141–46
1. cultural diminishment of, 179–89
2. in Hinewirangi’s poetry, 76–78
3. identification with Oceania, 6–7
4. manuhiri in, 139–40
5. Māori migration to, xvi–xix, xxvii–xxix, 37
6. Māori writers and, 9, 32, 34, 61–80, 84–86
7. naming of, 218n7
8. Nesian Mystik’s identification with, 113–16
9. Pacific identity of, 11–36, 94–100, 204–11
10. paper mulberry cultivation in, 10
11. Papua New Guinea and, 66–74
12. Pasifika–Māori connections in, 96–100
13. in Patuawa-Nathan’s poetry, 47–51
14. Polynation identification with, 117–20
15. regional identification of, 3–8
16. in Sullivan’s poetry, 51–58
17. Wineera’s work and consciousness of, 39–46
Aotearoa Moananui-a-Kiwa Weavers group, 98
articulation, research and incorporation of, xxvi–xxvii
artistic alliances, of Māori and Pasifika artists, 104–21
Artist of the Chief Mourner. See Tupaia
Asian Pacific race category, U.S. use of, 17–18, 225n28
aspirational biculturalism, 150
Auckland University Press, 37
Australia: geographic and cultural isolation of, 232n25
1. Māori presence in, 199–200, 234n10
2. in Patuawa-Nathan’s poetry, 48–51, 230n22
aute. See paper mulberry
Autobiography of a Maori, The (Kohere), xxvii, 37
Avia, Tusiata, 32, 116–20, 153
Awatere, Donna, xxvii

Baker, Hinemoana, 80
Ballantyne, Tony, xviii–xviii
Banks, Joseph, xvi, 196–97, 218n4
Barclay, Barry, 187
Barford, Serie, 153
Barry, Maggie, 133
Bastion Point occupation, 104, 115–16
Beaglehole, Ernest, xv, 224n11
Below the Surface (Hall), 62
Benedict, Barabara, 29, 33
Beran, Tom, 133
Beritane, Mama Alice Ani Maka, 97
Bhana, Nigel, 110
Bishop Museum (Hawai‘i), 11–12, 14, 201, 224n11
Black Grace dance company, 104
Black Panther Party, 105
boarding schools, Pacific–Māori connections through, 97–98
bone people, the (Hulme), 104, 124
Book of Mormon, 226n39
Bosini, Teu, 141
Brash, Don, 205
Brewer, Paul, 92–93
Brigham Young University–Hawai‘i (BYU-H), 20–23, 38
British Empire, knighthood for Te Rangihiroa from, 18
Britsch, R. Lanier, 22
Brooks, Lisa, 199–200
Brotown (cartoon program), 153, 185, 242n14
Buck, Peter. See Te Rangihiroa (Sir Peter Buck)
Buck, William Henry, 12
Burn This (CD), 104, 237n5

Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki, 97, 140–46, 183
Campbell, Jock, 141
Campbell, John, 133
Campbell, Michael, 164
Campbell, Stuart Te Ariki, 97, 142–46
Cannon, George, 22–23
Captain Cook in the Underworld (Sullivan), 51–52
Carter, Harold B., 218n4
Caucasian origin, U.S. citizenship on basis of, 15–18, 225n24
“Cautionary Tale” (Poole), 117
Cayuga Nation, xxiv
Chamorro indigeneity, 175
Che Fu, 104, 183
“Childhood in the Islands, A” (Campbell), 145–46
Christiansen, AnnaMarie, 8
Christie, Barney (Epanaia Whaanga), 24–26, 85
Church College, 98
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS): boarding schools established by, 98
1. Māori ties to, 11, 20–28, 226n39
Clark, Helen, 219n18, 248n40
class issues, in Grace’s Watercress Tuna, 130–32
Clydesdale report, 117, 238n
Colenso, William, 9–10, 87
colonialism: in Grace’s Watercress Tuna, 130–32
1. in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider, 64–74, 233n33
2. literary anthologies and, 29–30
3. in Māori fiction, 124–30
4. in Mila’s poetry, 147–53
5. New Zealand’s role in, 17, 97, 99–100, 175, 243n23
6. Oceania as product of, 222n6
7. Pasifika–Māori connections and, xxii–xxiii, 137–53
8. Pasifika–Māori disconnections and, 174–75
9. in Sullivan’s poetry, 55–56
Coming of the Maori, The (Te Rangihiroa), 12
Condliffe, J. B., 13
Cook, James, xv–xvi, 10, 51–52, 55–56, 193–95, 197, 245n6
Cook, Kealani, 184–85, 206
Cook Islands: colonization of, xxii, xxv, 97, 175
1. Te Ranghihiroa’s work in, 12–13
2. writers from, 140–46, 183–84
Cooper, Whina, 237n12
Cousins (Grace), 239n21
Cowrie (Dunsford), 62
Crocodile, The (Eri), 200
Crowley, Matthew, 23
cultural consumption and peformance: commodification of, at Polynesian Cultural Center, 21–28
1. Māori–Pasifika collaboration and, 103–21, 177–89
Curtis, Cliff, 242n14
Cuthers, Mama Aere, 97–98
Cuthers, Tutai, 97

Dansey, Harry, 47
Davis, Susan, 84
dawn, in Māori culture, 230n19
Dawn Raids of 1970s, xxvi, 105
DeLoughrey, Liz, 8
Dewes, Henare, 110
diaspora. See also migration: Māori writers’ focus on, 37, 84–87, 201–3, 234n7, 234nn4–5, 235n12
1. Nesian identity and, 112–16
2. Pacific literary focus on, 8
DNA, Māori indigeneity and, 205–6, 247n37
Dodge, Ernest Stanley, 3
“Double Afro” (photograph), 91–100
Dream Fish Floating (Mila), 139–40, 147–53
Drummond, Tommy. See Mowhee (Tommy Drummond)
Duff, Alan, xix, 163, 202
Dunsford, Cathie, 62, 79

“Eating Dark Chocolate While Watching Paul Holmes’ Apology” (Mila), 147
Edwards, Philip, xv
Elkington, John, 25
Ellis, Juniper, 8
Emery, Ngapaki, 104
Endeavour (ship), xv–xvi
English language: Māori writing in, xxvii–xxviii, 37–46, 63, 84–86, 220n25, 234n8
1. on Nesian Mystik albums, 113–16
2. in Rongo newspaper, 108–11
3. in Taylor’s fiction, 126–30
Ensign (Mormon journal), 38
Eri, Vincent, 200
European culture, indigeneity in relation to, 193–95
European trade, Māori and, xv–xxx, 3–8

Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories, 30–31
fale aitu (Sāmoan clowning theater), 158, 163
fānau, Māori–Pasifika connections and, 139–40, 153
“Fast Talking PI” (Marsh), 117
Figiel, Sia, 147, 229n4
Fiji: indigenous literary production in, 29, 34, 104
1. Māori writers in, 37
2. Pasifika community and, 99–100
Fika: First Draft Pasefika Writers (Avia), 32
Finney, Evelyn. See Patuawa-Nathan, Evelyn
“Firekeeper” (Hinewirangi), 75–76
First Contact (exhibition), 191–92
first-encounter research, Māori–European encounters, xv–xvii
forestry industry, 150
“Four Writers and One Critic” (Hereniko and Schwartz), 30
Fraser, Toa, 242n14
Frisbie, Johnny, 239n20

Gadd, Bernard, 30
gaze: Māori village installation at PCC and role of, 21–28
1. Pacific literary focus and, 8
2. significance of, xxix–xxx
gender politics, Māori–Pasifika disconnections and, 174–75
genealogy and family ties: in Hinewirangi’s poetry, 76–78
1. in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider, 64, 68, 74, 84–86, 232n26
2. literary genealogy of indigenous writing, 198–205
3. Māori concept of (whakapapa), 51–58, 64, 68, 74, 229n13, 232n26
4. in Mila’s work, 147–53
5. Nesian identity and, 111–16
6. in Sullivan’s poetry, 51–58
George, Miria, 183, 242n3
Goetzfridt, Nicholas, 8
“Go Home Maori” (Habib), 107
Grace, Patricia, 30–31, 38, 130–32, 150, 202, 239n21, 240n24
1. Māori Renaissance and, 199
Grace-Smith, Briar, 132–36, 173–74
“Great Hall, The” (Sullivan), 54–55, 191

Habib, Rowley, 107, 110
Haley, Russell, 84
Hall, Ambury, 62
Hands across the Water—the Story of the PCC (Crowley), 23–24
Haney Lopez, Ian F., 16–17
Hau’ofa, Epeli, 5–7
1. migration patterns in work of, 48
2. national identity issues in work of, 40, 42
3. Oceania in writing of, 5–7, 193, 197
4. Pacific identity in work of, xxiii, 63, 103, 112, 116, 183
Haviliviliaga Manatu (anthology), 236n10
Hawai‘i: cultural degeneration paradigm concerning, 24, 184–85
1. Hinewirangi’s connection to, 75–80
2. indigenous literary production in, 32, 205
3. LDS mission to, 22–24
4. Māori identification with, xvi, xxiv–xxvi, 25–28, 82–84
5. Māori writers’ connection with, 62
6. New Zealand connections to, 101–2
7. in Sullivan’s poetry, 52–54, 57–58
8. Te Rangihiroa in, 11–20, 24, 34–35
9. Wineera’s residence in, 38–46, 83
Hawaiki (imagined homeland), xvii–xviii, 195–96, 210–11, 219n11, 244n17
Hayward-Nathan, Kath, 117–20
“He karakia timatanga” (Sullivan), 52
“He piko he taniwha” (Mila), 147
He Rau Aroha: A Hundred Leaves of Love (Taylor), 123–30
Herbs (band), 104
Hereniko, Vilsoni, 7–8, 30, 228nn67–68
“Heritage” (Wineera poem), 1, 42–46, 68
Hibiscus Coast (Morris), 157, 240n45
“Hibiscus in the Flax Bush” (McIntosh), xxvii
Hīkoi (march), 105, 237n12, 248n40
Hinewirangi, xxviii, 9, 85
1. poetry of, 61–62, 74–80, 202
hip-hop music, Māori–Pasifika collaboration on, 103–4, 111–16, 238n24, 238n29
HiphopNZ forums, 188–89, 245n24
“Historian Who Lost His Memory, The” (Te Rangihiroa), 201
history: of Māori newspapers, 106–11
1. Nesian Mystik’s incorporation of, 115–16
2. in Patuawa-Nathan’s poetry, 47–51
3. in Sullivan’s poetry, 56–58
“History of Maori Newspapers, A,” 106–7
“Hokule’a” (Wineera), 40–41, 214
Holmes, Paul, 147, 241n14
homosexuality, in The Market television series, 173–75
Ho’-omanawanui, Ku’ualoha, 8
Hovell, John, 63, 232n17
Huia publishing company, 81, 104, 202
Hukarere (Catholic Māori girl’s school), 97–98
Hulme, Keri, 30–31, 104, 124, 202, 237n7
Hutchinson, Alec, 205–6
Huxley Memorial Medal, Te Rangihiroa as recipient of, 14

Ieremia, Neil, 104
Ifopo, Erolia, 157–63
Ihaka, Brett, 165
Ihimaera, Witi, xxviii, 9, 105
1. fiction of, 38, 62–74, 79–80, 110, 123, 202–3, 246n18
2. literary anthologies by, 29, 32, 141
3. Māori Renaissance and, 199
4. Pacific regionalism in work of, 61–62, 84–86
5. withdrawal from Faber anthology by, 30–31
‘Ilolahia, Will, 156, 186–89
indigeneity: cultural assimilation in New Zealand and, 183–89
1. in Grace’s Watercress Tuna, 131–32
2. in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider, 64–74, 79–80, 233n24
3. Māori migration and, xvii–xviii, xxi, 85–86, 204–11
4. Māori–Pasifika connections and, 139–53
5. Māori–Pasifika disconnections and, 156–75
6. in Rongo newspaper collaboration, 107–11
Indigenous: definitions of, 219n15, 248n42
1. native as alternative term for, 232n24
Indigenous Literature of Oceania (Goetzfridt), 8
Inside Out (Hereniko and Wilson), 8
Institute for Pacific Studies Press, 228n68
interdisciplinary research, emphasis on, xxvi–xxviii
intermarriage, Māori–Pasifika disconnections and, 156–75
interracial sexual connections, Māori–Pasifika disconnections and, 156–75
“In the Beginning” (Patuawa-Nathan), 48–49
Into the Luminous Tide, 229n11
Into the World of Light (anthology), 31, 141
Island of Shattered Dreams (Spitz), 81–84, 86–87
Island to Island (Campbell), 141
iwi (community): Bastion Point occupation and, 115–16
1. in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider, 68–74, 233n41
2. Māori writers’ identification with, 37
3. Pasifika peoples and, 99–100

Jazz Waiata (Sullivan), 51
Jerram, Krissi, 204
Journals of Captain Cook, xv–xxx
Journey Home, The (Dunsford), 62
Jowitt, Glenn, 91–94
jus sanguinis principle, citizenship requirements and, 225n23
jus soli principle, citizenship requirements and, 225n23
Just Poetry (Campbell), 145–46

“Kaho o lawe” (Hinewirangi), 77–79
Kahukiwa, Robyn, 130
Kahumoku, Ka’imipono Kaiwi, 8
Kamali, Daren, 119
Kanaka Maoli nation, xxiv, 83, 167
Kanohi ki te Kanohi (Hinewirangi), 61–62, 74–80
Kapingamairangi, Te Rangihiroa’s research on, 13
Ka Po‘e o La‘ie (literary collection), 38–39, 58, 229n6
Kapuakore, 12
Kedgley, Helen, 192
Keig, Jane, 91–93
Keown, Michelle, 8
Kester, Matthew, 22
Kightley, Oscar, 157–63, 185
Kihara, Shigeyuki, 243n16
Kihleng, Emelihter, 8
Kila Kokonut Krew, 163–65
King, Thomas, xxvi, 92
Kirk, David, 133
Koa (Māori man), 55–57
Kohere, Rewiti, xxvii, 37, 210
Koiwi Koiwi (Baker), 80
koura (crayfish), Māori–Pacific connections and, xxviii–xix, 94–100, 177–89
Kula Manu poetry magazine, 38
kūmara (Māori food staple), 106
Kupe (explorer), xviii, 77, 140, 204, 213–14

Laban, Luamanuvao Winnie, 117
Lali (Wendt anthology), 31–32, 34
Lange, David, 61
“Letter from Stuart Maireriki” (Campbell), 142
L’Ile Des Reves Ecrases (Spitz), 81–84
literary anthologies: exclusion for Māori writers from, 31, 228n67
1. genre of, 28–34
literary studies: indigenous genealogy in, 198–211
1. interdisciplinary research and role of, xxvi–xxviii
2. Māori–Pacific interconnectivity in, 7–8
3. scholarship sources for, 8
Loader, Arini, 203–4
“Lost Visionz” (hip-hop song), 103–4, 117
Luangphininth, Seri, 233n33
Lynch, Sarah-Kate, 133

Maaka, Daniel, 92–100, 151, 182, 187–88, 243n16
MacDougall, Brandy Nālani, 8
Made in Taiwan: Oscar and Nathan’s Excellent Adventure (film), 185–88, 205–6
Mahanga: Pacific Poems (Wineera), xx, 37–47, 84
Mai (Māori poet), 55–57, 191
Mākaro Island, 213–15
Mana literary journal, 32, 228n68
Manawa Toa/Heart Warrior (Dunsford), 62
Man Booker literary prize, 104, 237n7
Mangaia, Te Rangihiroa’s research on, 13
Mango’s Kiss, The (Wendt), 98, 236n2, 241n5
Mann, Bertie, 102
Mann, Louisa, 102
Mann, Nola, 102
manu aute (kite), Māori literary diaspora and, 85–86
“Manuhiri” (Mila), 148–51
manuhiri, Māori–Pasifika connections in context of, 139–53
Manukau Courier, 92
Maoli, Kanaka, 184
Maori Agricultural College, 98
“Maori Bartering a Crayfish, A” (Tupaia painting), ii, xxviii, 94–100, 191
Maori Battalion: A Poetic Sequence (Campbell), 141–42
Māori Language Day/Māori Langugage Week, 108
Māori literary studies, Pacific literary studies and, 7–8, 28–34
Māori people: boarding schools for, 97–98
1. language and spelling conventions of, 217
2. language crisis for, 105–11
3. migration patterns of, 37, 47–48, 52–53, 68–74, 80, 234n7, 234n60, 235n12
4. Pacific identity of, xv–xxx, 5–6, 9, 11–36, 81–84, 91–100, 177–89, 221n2
5. Pasifika connections with, 98–121, 139–53, 177–89
6. Pasifika disconnections with, 155–75, 177–89
7. Polynation identification with, 117–20
8. regional and national connections of, xxi–xxiii
9. in Sullivan’s poetry, identification with, 56–58
10. urban identification of, 113, 202–3, 238n27
11. village installation at Polynesian Cultural Centre and, 9, 11, 20–28
12. in Wineera’s poetry, identification with, 42–46
Maori Sovereignty, xxvii,
Māori Women’s Welfare League, 98
Māori writers: in Aotearoa, 9, 32, 34, 61–80
1. English language contributions of, 37–46, 63, 84–86, 137, 199–205, 220n25, 234n8, 247n29
2. literary genealogy of, 198–211, 246n18
3. Māori language writing by, 203–11
4. Māori Renaissance and, 199
5. in Pacific literary anthologies, 28–34, 228n67
6. Pacific ties of, xxviii, 37–59
7. Pasifika connections with, 99, 123–37
8. Rongo’s publication of, 109–11
“Maori Writers Read” event, 104
marae (courtyard space): Māori meetings and rituals in, 226n46
1. Pacific portrayed as, in Wineera’s poetry, 46
2. in Polynesian Cultural Centre, 25, 29
3. at Victoria University of Wellington, 177–78
4. welcome rituals in, 99
Marae poetry magazine, 38
Market, The (television series), 104, 157, 165–75, 243n19
Marquesas Islands, 24
Marsden’s Māori Seminary, 201
Marsh, Selina Tusitala, 8, 117, 153
masculinity, Māori–Pasifika disconnections and, 170–75
Mataia, Louise, 96–97
Mataira, Katerina, 234n8
Matiu/Somes Island, xvii–xviii, xxiii, 204, 206–9, 219n13
1. Pasifika connection with, 139–53
2. Port Nicholson Block Claim and, 213–15
Matriarch, The (Ihimaera), 124
Māui (Māori deity), xviii, 51–52, 142
1. Hawaiian island of Māui and, 77–78
Mau Piailug, 184
McDonald, Brian, 105–11
McIntosh, Tracy, xxvii, 136–37
Mead, Hirini Moko, xvi
Melanesian writers, 228n70
1. national identity questions and, 233n40
Memoir of Mowhee: A Young New Zealander Who Died at Paddington, 201
memory, in Grace-Smith’s fiction, 134–36
Micronesian writers, 184–85, 228n70
migration See also diaspora: contemporary patterns in New Zealand of, 93–100, 205–11
1. cultural assimilation and, 184–89
2. fānau concept and, 139–40
3. indigeneity and, xvii–xviii, xxi, 106, 204–11
4. Māori–Pasifika disconnections and, 156–75, 184–89
5. Māori patterns of, 37, 47–48, 52–53, 234n7, 235n12
6. in Māori writers work, 68–74, 80–87, 234n60
7. Nesian identity and, 112–16
8. of Pasifika communities, 95–100
9. in Patuawa-Nathan’s poetry, 47–51
10. in Taylor’s fiction, 125–30
Mila, Karlo, 117, 139–41, 147–53
Miller, John, 105–11
moko (tattoo), 42–46, 68, 230n14
Moramona (Britsch), 22
Morgan, Tukuroirangi, 164
Moriori community, 175
Mormons. See Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)
Morris, Paula, 30, 85, 157, 229n4, 240n45, 244n16
Moruroa, 62
Mowhee (Tommy Drummond), 201
multilingualism: in Rongo newspaper, 108–11, 237n21
1. in Taylor’s fiction, 126–30
Mutuwhenua (Grace), 199, 202, 239n21

Najita, Susan, 8
National Library of New Zealand, 105–6
National Party (New Zealand), 205
native, indigenous vs., 232n24
Native American Literary Symposium, 205
Native American literature, 85, 199–200, 205
Native Americans, Māori–Pasifika identification with, 107–8, 205
Naufahu, Rene, 165
navigation: in Patuawa-Nathan’s poetry, 47–48
1. in Sullivan’s poetry, 53–58
navigation chant (waiata tangi), Te Rangihiroa’s recital of, 18–20, 225n29
Nawalowalo, Nina, 104
Nesian identity, Pacific genealogy and, 111–16, 121
Nesian Mystik (hip-hop group), 103, 111–16, 118, 163, 205
Ness, Tigilau, 104, 108
New Plymouth Boys school, 98
newspapers, history of Māori production of, 106–11
New Zealand: boundaries of, 219n19
1. citizenship policies in, 235n8, 243n23, 247n39
2. cultural assimilation in, 177–89
3. current Māori population in, 219n17
4. demographic and cultural changes in, 102–5
5. European farming on, 10, 87
6. film industry support in, 63
7. immigration politics in, 205–11
8. Māori–LDS connections in, 23–28
9. Māori–Pasifika disconnections in, 155–75
10. Māori presence in, xvi–xix, 92–100
11. Māori writers identified with literature of, xxvii–xxviii, 37, 84–86, 229n4
12. newspapers in, 106–11
13. nuclear-free policies in, 61–62, 232n15
14. Pacific regional identity of, 61–62, 101–2
15. paper mulberry extinction on, xv–xvi, 3–4, 8–9
16. Pasifika community in, xxi–xxiii, 139
17. Port Nicholson Block Claim and, 213–15
18. school journals and publications in, 239n20
New Zealand Book Awards, 139–40
New Zealand Federation of Maori Students. See Te Huinga Rangatahi o Aotearoa New Zealand Festival, 157
Ngahiwi Tomoana, xxv
“Ngā Iwi E” (song), 167
Nga Kuri a Wharei, 105–11
Ngarongo-ki-tua, 12
Nga Tamatoa, 103, 105–11
Ngāti Kahungunu, xxv
Ngati Whatua community, 115–16
Niue: colonization of, xxii, 97, 175
1. language of, 108
2. Te Ranghihiroa’s work in, 12–13
3. writers and poets from, 104, 236n10
“Niu Sila” concept, emergence of, 179–89
Niu Voices (anthology), 28
No Ordinary Sun (Tuwhare), 38
“Note on Absences, A” (Stead), 31
Nuanua anthology (Wendt), 31–34
nuclear testing in Pacific: importance in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider of, 63–74, 232n15
New Zealand opposition to, 61–62

“Ocean Birth” (Sullivan), 53, 55–57
ocean-centricity: in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider, 71–74
1. in Patuawa-Nathan’s poetry, 47–48
2. in Sullivan’s poetry, 52–58
3. in Wineera’s poetry, 41–46
Oceania: Māori identity in context of, 5–7, 193–95, 197, 222n6
1. Nesian identity and context of, 112–16
2. in Sullivan’s poetry, 56–57
“Odd Men from the Pacific” (Mataia), 97
‘Ōiwi 3 (anthology), 28
Ola (Wendt), 98, 241n5
“Omamari” (Patuawa-Nathan), 47–48, 53, 77
Once Were Samoans (play), 157, 163–65, 167–68, 173–75
Once Were Warriors (film), xix, 163, 231n12
“On One Tree Hill Falling” (Mila), 148, 151–53
Opening Doors; a Collection of Poems by the Maori Poet Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan (Patuawa-Nathan), 37, 47–51, 84
Ōtara, New Zealand, 188
1. indigenous identification with, 91–100
2. in The Market television show, 166–75, 243n16
“Our Sea of Islands” (Hau-ofa), 5–6, 40, 103

Pacific: Aotearoa identification with, 61–80
1. importance in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider of, 63–74
2. Māori identity in, xv–xxx, 5–6, 9, 11–36, 81–86, 91–100, 177–89, 194–95, 204–11, 221n2
3. Māori migration in, 37, 47–48
4. Māori writers’ identification with, 37–59, 63–74
5. Nesian identity and context of, 111–16
6. New Zealand identification with, 101–2
7. nuclear testing in, 61–74, 232n15
8. specific names for, 4
9. in Sullivan’s poetry, 52–58
10. Te Rangihiroa’s identification with, 12–20
11. in Wineera’s poetry, 38–46
Pacific Arts Festival, 221n2
Pacific Islander, Māori identity as, xxiv–xxv
Pacific literary studies: Anglophone Pacific literature and, 28
1. Eurocentrism in, 30–31
2. literary anthologies in, 9, 28–36
3. Māori literary studies and, 7–8, 28–34
4. non-indigenous editors of, 29–34
5. regional distribution of published work and, 228n66
“Pacific Note” (Wineera), 41
Pacific studies, literary studies and, 222n12
Pacific Voices: An Anthology of Writing by and about Pacific People (Gadd), 30
Pacific Writer Scholars, Winduo’s concept of, 7
paintbrush, cultural significance of, xxix–xxx
Pākehā, xxvii, 74
1. in Grace’s Watercress Tuna, 131–32
2. in Taylor’s fiction, 125–30
“Pa Mai” (Taylor), 123–30, 140, 166, 208
paper mulberry, xv–xvi
1. tapa production from, 3–8
Papua New Guinea: indigenous literary production in, 32, 200–201, 228n70
1. Māori writers’ identification with, 62–74, 79–80
Paremoremo Prison, 110
Parihaka, 12
Parihaka settlement, 115–16
Pasifika Festival, 101, 178–89
Pasifika people: Māori connections with, xxviii–xxix, 95–121, 177–89
1. Māori disconnections with, 155–75, 177–89
2. Māori writers’ connections with, 99, 123–37
3. in New Zealand, 95–100
4. Polynation and, 117–20
5. Polynesian Panthers and, 105–11
6. racism in, xxii–xxiii
Pasifika writers, Māori connections with, 99, 139–53
Pataka Museum, 191–92
Patuawa-Nathan, Evelyn, xxviii, 9
1. literary legacy of, 200–201
2. on Māori migration, 37
3. poetry of, 47–51, 53, 59, 83–85
“Pearl Harbor” (Sullivan), 57–58
Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, The, 30, 84
Perez, Craig Santos, 8
Petone (Pito-one), xvii
Pewhairangi, Tate, xvi
“Photograph from Home, A” (Habib), 110
Piki Ake (Sullivan), 51
place, Māori writing and role of, xxiv–xxvi, 202–11
poetry, by Māori writers, xx
politics: in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider of, 63–74
1. indigeneity and, 205–6
2. Pacific literary anthologies and, 30–34
Polynation (film), 103
Polynation (performance poetry collaboration), 103, 113, 116–20
Polynesia: French Polynesia, 81–82
1. Tupaia’s map of, xvi
Polynesia in a Day, 26
Polynesian Cultural Centre (PCC), 3–8, 82–83
1. LDS ties to, 22–24
2. Māori village installation at, 9, 11, 20–28, 35–36, 92, 178–79
3. poetry published by, 229n6
Polynesian identity: diaspora in Utah, 240n25
1. indigenous literary anthologies and, 34, 228n70
2. Latter-Day Saints and, 22–23
3. Māori ethnicity and, xvii, 3–8, 91–100, 186–89, 205–6, 210–11, 218n1
4. multilingualism and, 109–11
5. Nesian rejection of, 112–16
6. Polynation recognition of, 117–20
7. Rongo as deity and, 106
8. in Sullivan’s poetry, 55–58
9. Te Rangihiroa’s identification with, 13–20
10. in Wineera’s poetry, 38–46
Polynesian Panthers, 103, 105–11, 115–16
Polysaturated (album), 112–16
Polyunsaturated (album), 111–16, 205
Poole, Doug, 116–20
“Poroporoaki” (Mila), 148
Port Nicholson Block Claim, 213–15, 248n1
postcolonial perspective, in Pacific literary anthologies, 31–34
Potiki (Grace), 124
Potiki, Roma, 104, 237n7
Pounamu Pounamu (Ihimaera), 38, 246n18
pōwhiri ritual, 139–40
Pule, John, 104, 147

Queen of Beauty (Morris), 240n45
Queensland Poetry Festival, 103, 116–20

racialization, in Te Rangihiroa’s research, 13
racism: in Grace’s Watercress Tuna, 130–32
1. in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider, 64–74, 79–80
2. Māori–Pasifika disconnections and, 156–75
3. in Mila’s poetry, 147
4. Nesian identity and, 111–16
5. New Zealand immigration politics and, 205–11
6. in Pasifika community, xxii–xxiii
7. in Taylor’s fiction, 124–30
8. in U.S. citizenship requirements, 15–18, 224n17, 225n23
Ra’iatea, xvi, 62, 218n1
Ramsden, Eric, 15, 224n11
Rapanui (Easter Island/Isla de Pascua), Māori in, xvi
Rarere, Nathan, 185
Rarotonga, xvi
Readings in Pacific Literature (Sharrad), 8
Reeder, Te Awanui Pine, 114–16
regional identification: Māori context for, 3, 5–8
1. Māori–Pasifika disconnections and, 156–75
2. Pacific literary studies and, xxix–xxx
representational politics: in The Market television show, 165–75
1. Whale Rider film and, 63
resistance, Pasifika–Māori collaboration and alliances and, 103–4
Reynolds, Paul, 206
Rika-Heke, Powhiri, 199
Riki, Jean, 85
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 99, 157
Romeo and Tusi (Kightley and Ifopo), 157–66, 173–75, 185, 189
Rongo (Māori–Pasifika newspaper), 102–12, 121, 123, 237n21

“Sad Joke on a Marae” (Taylor), 40, 124
Salmond, Anne, xxx
Sāmoa: colonization of, xxii, xxv, 17, 219n18, 225n27
1. fale aitu theatre in, 158
2. knife dances at Polynesian Cultural Centre by, 21
3. language of, 108
4. Māori writers’ experiences in, 62
5. Nesian Mystik’s identification with, 114–16
6. as New Zealand territory, 97, 140, 170, 175
7. in Once Were Samoans, 163–65
8. in Taylor’s fiction, 124–30
9. Te Rangihiroa’s work in, 12–13
“Savaiki Regained: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell’s Poetics” (Campbell), 141
Schwarz, Sig, 30
Seabed and Foreshore Act 2005, 41, 205, 247n39
“Sea Is History, The” (Walcott), 41–42
Setoga, Siliga David, 243n16
Seventh Fire, The (newspaper), 107
Shakespeare, William, 99, 157
Sharrad, Paul, 8
Shortland Street (television program), 165
Silva, Noenoe, 8
Sinavaiana-Gabbard, Caroline, 158
Sione’s Wedding (television program), 185
Six Pack, The (anthology), 132–33
Six Pack Competition, 133
Smith, Jo, 150
Smith, Takirirangi, 177–78
Solomon Islands, 97
Somes Island. See Matiu/Somes Island
Songmaker’s Chair, The (Wendt), 140, 157, 164–65
Sons for the Return Home (Wendt), 110, 121, 242nn4–5
South Pacific Creative Arts Society, 9, 37, 47
South Pacific Festival of the Arts, xx
South Pacific Literature: From Myth to Fabulatio (Subramani), 7–8, 223n17
sovereignty: Māori indigeneity and, 204–5
1. Pasifika–Māori collaboration and alliances and, 103–4
Spiral Collective, 104
Spitz, Chantal, 81–84
sports, Pasifika–Māori teams and, 98, 115, 236n17
Star Waka (Sullivan), 51–54
Stead, C. K., 30–31
Stella, Regis, 7
Stevenson, Karen, 192
Strickson-Pua, Mua, 113–14, 117, 119
Sturm, J. C., 246n18
Subramani, 7–8, 223n17
Sullivan, Robert, xvii, xxviii, 9, 34, 85
1. on Campbell’s poetry, 141
2. on Māori migration, 37
3. poetry of, 51–59, 191, 202–3
4. on Tupaia, 245n8
Sumner, Charles, 224n17

Tagata Pasifika (television show), 104, 237n8
Taiwan, Māori presence in, 204–5
Takapuna Free Kindergarten, 101–2
Takitimu Festival, 210–11
Takitimu people, xv–xxvi
Tamahori, Lee, xix
Tangata Māori, 83, 92–100
“Tangata o le Moana: The Story of the Pacific People in New Zealand” (exhibit), 91–100
tāngata whenua, Māori identity and, 95–100, 139–40, 178–89
Tangi (Ihimaera), 110, 121, 123
tapa: Māori cultivation of, xv–xxx, 10
1. Māori writers’ link to, 79–80, 86–87
2. regional specificity concerning, 4–5, 94–100
3. Te Rangihiroa’s discussion of, 9–10
4. as trade item, xxviii, 3–5, 193–95, 209–10
“Tatauing the Post-colonial Body” (Wendt), 7, 42–43, 222n13, 222n16
Tataurangi, Phillip, 164
tattoo, Māori practices of, 42–46, 68, 230n14
Tawhai, Alice, 244n16
Taylor, Apirana, 40, 62, 79, 123–30, 202, 208, 234n8
Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, 245n7
Teaiwa, Teresia, 7
Te Ao Hou magazine, 38, 97, 99–100, 199, 246n18
Te Ao Mārama (Ihimaera literary anthology), 29, 31, 202
te ariki (Te Punga Somerville), 146
Te Arohanui cultural group, 25
Te Ātiawa, xxiv
Te Aute College (Māori boarding school), 12, 97–98, 223n21, 236n12
technology, in Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider, 68–69
Te Hā society, 47
Te Herenga Waka (marae), 177–78, 184
Te Heuheu, Georgina, xx
Te Huinga Rangatahi o Aotearoa, 105–11
Te Ika a Māui, xvii–xviii
Te Kohanga Reo movement, 98
Tekulu, Gina, 97, 236n12
television, Pacific programming on, 104, 237n8
“Te Manawa” (Grace-Smith), 132–36, 173–74
Temaru, Oscar, 28
Te Moananui a Kiwa (Māori term for Pacific Ocean), xvi–xvii, 4, 54, 87
Te Ngaio, Joe and Millie, 25
Tengan, Ty Kāwika, 83
Te Paki o Matariki (Māori language newspaper), 106–7
Te Papa (New Zealand national museum), 91–100, 151, 182, 187–88, 248n41
Te Punanga Reo o te Kuki Airani o Aotearoa movement, 98
Te Punga Somerville, Alice, 146, 197–98
Te Rangihiroa (Sir Peter Buck), xx, 8–10, 177, 223n21
1. anthropological research by, 11–20, 247n37
2. biography of, 224n11
3. fiction by, 201
4. knighthood from British Empire for, 18
5. naming preference of, 223n1
6. Pacific regional identity of, 12–20, 34–35, 82–83, 85, 87
7. U.S. citizenship denied to, 14–18, 224n17
Te Rangikaheke, Wiremu Maihi, 195–97, 203–4, 210
Te Rauparaha, 141
Te Reo language, 106–11
Te Reo o Taranaki, 204
Tereora, Mere Tepaeru, 98
“Te Wa Kainga: Home” (Riki), 85
Te Weherua (Māori poet), 55–57
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, xvii–xviii
Te Whiti (prophet), 115
Thaman, Konai Helu, 7
Things Fall Apart (Achebe), 200
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa, 200
This Is Polynesia, 27
tikanga, Hinewirangi’s poetry and meaning of, 75–76, 234n62
Tione, Maui, 195–96
Tipene, Jillian, 204
Titaua’s ship (Te Punga Somerville), 197–98
“Toa Rangatira” (Wineera poem), 39–40
Tohu (prophet), 115
Tokelau, colonization of, xxii, 97, 99–100, 175, 219n19
Tokomaru Bay, xvi
Tomoana, Ngahiwi, 210–11
Tongan language: on Nesian Mystik albums, 113–16
1. poetry in, 139–40
2. Rongo newspaper, 108
tourism, commodification of Māori village installation at PCC and, 21–28
“Towards a New Oceania” (Wendt), 5, 32, 221n4
Trask, Haunani-Kay, 7
Treaty of Waitangi, 74, 116, 237n12, 248n46
Trubovich, Komera, 97–98
T-shirt logos as identity markers, 166–75, 243n16
Tū (Māori deity), 142
Tuffery, Michel, 191–92
Tukutamaki, Tuku, 98
Tupaia, ii
1. explorations by, xvi–xvii, 218n4, 245n8
2. Māori interaction with, xv–xxx, 209–10
3. paintings by, ii, xxviii, 94–100, 191–93, 196–97
4. in Sullivan’s poetry, 55–57
5. tapa trade and, 3–8
“Tupaia” (Sullivan), 191
Tupaia’s Chart, Cook and Banks—Tupaia and Parkinson’s Paintbox (Tuffery), 192–93
Tuwhare, Hone, 38, 47, 62, 79, 202
1. Māori Renaissance and, 199, 246n18
Twenty-eighth Māori Battalion, xx, 96–97, 141–46

Uawa, Māori at, xv
United States: denial of citizenship to Te Rangihiroa by, 15–18, 224n17, 225n23
1. imperialist ideology in, 18
United States v. Thind, 17, 225n22
Unity Pacific (band), 104
University of Hawai‘i, Te Rangihiroa at, 12–20
University of the South Pacific, 228n68
urban identity for contemporary Māori, 113, 202–3, 238n27

Va’ai, Sina, 7
Vainetini Kuki Airani Cook Islands Women Pioneers: Early Experiences in Aotearoa New Zealand, 97–98
van Toorn, Penny, 199
Vārua Tupu (anthology), 28
Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), 28, 177
voice carried my family (Sullivan), 51–54, 191
Volkerling, Ngahuia, 105–11 Vula (play), 104

Waiariki (Grace), 38
Waitangi Tribunal, 74, 116, 237n12
Waiting in Space (anthology), 85
“Waka 89” (Sullivan), 52
waka traditions: Māori involvement in, xxv–xxvi, 24–26
1. in Sullivan’s poetry, 52–58
Walcott, Derek, 41–42, 48
Walker, Alice, 110, 147
“Watching the Limu Pickers” (Wineera), 40–41
Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street (Grace), 130–32, 150, 239n23, 240n24
“We Are Polynation” (creative collaboration), 117
Webb, Terry, 21–22
Weep Not Child (Thiong’o), 200
Wendt, Albert, xxiii, 5, 7
1. anthologies by, 31–34
2. fiction of, 98, 110, 123
3. Māori–Pasifika disconnections in work of, 157, 164–65
4. Mila’s poem to, 147, 153
5. on Pacific region, 29, 183, 195, 221n4, 222n13, 222n16
6. Pasifika connections in work of, 140–41, 241n5, 242n4
7. at Victoria University of Wellington, 28
8. Wineera’s poetry and work of, 42–43
9. withdrawal from Faber anthology by, 30–31
West Auckland Poetry Festival, 116–20
Whaanga, Hirini, 24
Whaanga, Mere, 24
Whaitiri, Reina, 34
whakapapa, Māori concept of, 51–58, 64, 68, 74, 229n13, 232n26. See also genealogy
“Whakarongo” (Dewes), 110
Whakataetae (kapa haka competition), 21, 226n33
Whale Rider (film), 61–63, 232nn11–12, 233n13
Whale Rider, The (Ihimaera), 61–74, 79–80, 84–86, 210, 232n14, 232nn17–18
Whautapu, Bill, 25
Whetu Moana (anthology), 28, 34, 62
“Why the Need for Rongo?”, 107
“Why Wounded Knee in 1973?”, 107
Wilson, Rob, 8
Winduo, Steven, 7
Wineera, Vernice, xx, xxviii, 1, 9, 229n25
1. Hawai‘i residence of, 38–46, 83
2. literary legacy of, 200
3. on Māori migration, 37, 234n8
4. on Pacific identity, 58, 113
5. poetry by, 37–48, 58–59, 68, 83–85, 214
6. on Polynesian Cultural Centre, 22
Womack, Craig, 85
Woodd, Basil, 201
“Worlds Apart” (Hutchinson), 205–6
World War II: effect in New Zealand of, 101–2
1. Twenty-eighth Māori Battalion in, xx, 96–97, 141–46

Yale University, Te Rangihiroa’s association with, 12–15, 18–20, 224n11

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