by Danny Keenan | May 4, 2020 | Global Native History
Native Historians Global Native historians live and work all over the world of course and, for some (but not all) opportunities to gather together and network do arise. Conferences, especially in the USA, are convened often and their proceedings are always...
by Danny Keenan | Dec 28, 2019 | Flying the Fern
As with the building of waka and the sponsoring of ‘the year of the waka’, acknowledging the Treaty of Waitangi was achieved in many different ways during 1990, emphasising once again its centrality within the Sesquentenary celebrations. In October, the Alexander...
by Danny Keenan | Dec 27, 2019 | Home Thoughts from Georgetown
Histories of national sentiment During the first half of 2009, Danny was privileged to teach a New Zealand history paper to 35 amazing American students at Georgetown University in Washington DC. The paper had quite a long title; ‘Last Outpost of Empire’? New...
by Danny Keenan | Dec 26, 2019 | Flying the Fern
When Winston Peters took office as Minister, the Department of Maori Affairs had just been abolished, on 1 September 1989. Ministries in flux Maori at large had opposed the abolition which removed 1100 people with years of collective experience from their mediating...
by Danny Keenan | Nov 17, 2019 | Hidden Article
The essay below, which assesses some of the recent literature on Parihaka, was included in the original draft of the book Te Whiti O Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka (Huia, 2015). However, at the request of the publisher, the first draft was substantially...
