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Indigenous Mobilities ACROSS AND BEYOND THE ANTIPODES Aboriginal History Incorporated Aboriginal History Inc. is a part of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, and gratefully acknowledges the support of the School of History and the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, The Australian National University. Aboriginal History Inc. is administered by an Editorial Board which is responsible for all unsigned material. Views and opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily shared by Board members. Contacting Aboriginal History All correspondence should be addressed to the Editors, Aboriginal History Inc., ACIH, School of History, RSSS, 9 Fellows Road (Coombs Building), Acton, ANU, 2601, or [email protected]. WARNING: Readers are notified that this publication may contain names or images of deceased persons. Indigenous Mobilities ACROSS AND BEYOND THE ANTIPODES Edited by Rachel Standfield Published by ANU Press and Aboriginal History Inc. The Australian National University Acton ACT 2601, Australia Email: [email protected] Available to download for free at press.anu.edu.au A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia ISBN (print): 9781760462147 ISBN (online): 9781760462154 WorldCat (print): 1038052699 WorldCat (online): 1038052860 DOI: 10.22459/IM.06.2018 This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The full licence terms are available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ legalcode Cover design and layout by ANU Press. Cover image: State Library of NSW, Tippahee [Te Pahi], a chief of New Zealand, 1808 / painted by James Finucane, call number SV*/Mao/Port/14, file number FL1601774. This edition © 2018 ANU Press Contents Acknowledgements . vii Contributors . ix 1 . Moving Across, Looking Beyond . 1 Rachel Standfield 2 . Crossing Boundaries: Tracing Indigenous Mobility and Territory in the Exploration of South‑Eastern Australia . .. 35 Shino Konishi 3 . Mobility, Reciprocal Relationships and Early British Encounters in the North of New Zealand . 57 Rachel Standfield 4 . ‘A Defining Characteristic of the Southern People’: Southern Māori Mobility and the Tasman World . 79 Michael J . Stevens 5 . Entangled Mobilities: Missions, Māori and the Reshaping of Te Ao Hurihuri . 115 Tony Ballantyne 6 . ‘As Much as They Can Gorge’: Colonial Containment and Indigenous Tasmanian Mobility at Oyster Cove Aboriginal Station . 145 Kristyn Harman 7 . Looking Out to Sea: Indigenous Mobility and Engagement in Australia’s Coastal Industries . 165 Lynette Russell 8 . Miago and the ‘Great Northern Men’: Indigenous Histories from In‑Between . 185 Tiffany Shellam 9 . Indigenous Women, Marriage and Colonial Mobility . 209 Angela Wanhalla 10 . Pāora Tūhaere’s Voyage to Rarotonga . 233 Lachy Paterson 11 . Reconnecting with South‑East Asia . 255 Regina Ganter Acknowledgements This publication is the outcome of a workshop held at the Ōtākou Marae, southern New Zealand, in November 2014, which was jointly hosted by the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, the Department of History and Art History and the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago. My thanks go to Lynette Russell and Tony Ballantyne, whose commitment to comparative and connected historical scholarship, and to a management style based in collegiate relationships, facilitated both the workshop and this edited collection. Thank you to the speakers and participants at that workshop, particularly Jane Carey for her participation and enthusiastic support, and to the contributors to this volume for their patience through delays and changing circumstances. I would particularly like to thank Mike Stevens for his role in organising the workshop, for our time studying and now researching together, but also for much more than this—for years of friendship between us (and now our families), generous hospitality and for introducing me to the taonga of coming to know Ngāi Tahu people and culture. I pay my respects to Ngāi Tahu ancestors and people discussed in this book, as well as to all the other Indigenous communities, both ancestors and their contemporary descendants, whose histories we trace. Thank you to my colleagues in the history research group at Monash University for their feedback on the introductory chapter, especially Charlotte Greenhalgh, Kat Ellinghaus and Christina Twomey whose insightful comments helped immeasurably. To John Bradley, thank you for being such a champion of interdisciplinary and engaged research, and for the conversations, reading of each other’s work and help to engage with other epistemologies. vii INDIGENOUS MOBILITIES Aboriginal History and Rani Kerin have been excellent to work with; as authors we thank them for their efforts and their persistence in supporting publications on Indigenous histories and perspectives. Thank you also to our peer reviewers whose insights improved the work. Special thanks must go to Heather Goodall for her encouragement and advice. My thanks go to the State Library of New South Wales for the cover image and for their excellent support of researchers working with their collections. Finally, the publication of this collection would not have been possible without the generous support of the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, for which I am grateful. Rachael Standfield February 2018 viii Contributors Tony Ballantyne is a Professor of History and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Humanities, at the University of Otago. He has published widely on New Zealand’s colonial pasts, the cultural history of the modern British Empire and on the place of empires in world history. Regina Ganter is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at Griffith University. She is also Director of the Harry Gentle Resource Centre at Griffith University. She specialises in interactions between Indigenous, Asian and European peoples in Australia and is the multi–award winning author of The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait (1994) and Mixed Relations (2006). Her most recent monograph is The Contest for Aboriginal Souls: European Missionary Agendas in Australia (2018), a companion to her web-directory of intercultural encounters between Indigenous people and German-speaking missionaries in Australia. Kristyn Harman is a historian at the University of Tasmania. She specialises in cross-cultural encounters across Britain’s nineteenth-century colonies and twentieth-century Australasia. Kristyn is the author of Cleansing the Colony: Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land (2017) and was the winner of the 2014 Australian Historical Association Kay Daniels Award for her book Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Māori Exiles (2012). Shino Konishi is a historian based at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (2012) and co-editor, with Maria Nugent and Tiffany Shellam, of Indigenous Intermediaries: New Perspectives on Exploration Archives (2015) and Brokers and Boundaries: Colonial Exploration in Indigenous Territory (2016). She is Aboriginal and identifies with the Yawuru people of Broome. ix INDIGENOUS MOBILITIES Lachy Paterson is an Associate Professor in Te Tumu—School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago, where he teaches te reo Māori (Māori language) and Māori history. Lachy draws on reo-Māori texts, such as newspapers, to explore aspects of Māori social, cultural and political history. He is the author of Colonial Discourses: Niupepa Māori, 1855–1863 (2006) and co-author, with Angela Wanhalla, of He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women’s Voices from the Nineteenth Century (2017). Lynette Russell is Professor and Director of the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre. She has published widely in the areas of theory, Indigenous histories, post-colonialism and representations of race, museum studies and popular culture. Her 2012 book, Roving Mariners: Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans 1790–1870, explores Aboriginal mobility, entrepreneurship and enterprise in maritime industries. Tiffany Shellam is a Lecturer in History at Deakin University. Her research focuses on the encounters between explorers and Indigenous people in the early nineteenth century, and later relationships between Indigenous people, settlers and missionaries. She is the author of Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George’s Sound (2009) and co-editor, with Shino Konishi and Maria Nugent, of Indigenous Intermediaries: New Perspectives on Exploration Archives (2015) and Brokers and Boundaries: Colonial Exploration in Indigenous Territory (2016). Rachel Standfieldis a Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre. Her work explores histories of cross-cultural encounters and the agency of Indigenous peoples in Australia and New Zealand as they encountered Europeans on their country. She is the author of Race and Identity in the Tasman World (2012). Michael J. Stevens (nō Kāi Tahu ki Awarua) is a freelance historian and former Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Otago. His research focuses on knowledge born out of cross-cultural entanglement and colonisation in the long nineteenth century. He focuses primarily on southern New Zealand’s colonial and maritime histories, especially as they relate to Kāi Tahu families and communities. Angela Wanhalla is an Associate