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Australian Aborigine: Topic Page
Member of any of the 500 groups of indigenous inhabitants of the continent of Australia, who migrated to this region from South Asia about 40,000 years ago. Traditionally hunters and gatherers, they are found throughout the continent and their languages probably belong to more than one linguistic family.
Maori: Topic Page
Member of the Polynesian people of New Zealand. They number 435,000, about 15% of the total population, and around 89% live in the North Island. Maori civilization had particular strengths in warfare, cultivation, navigation, and wood- and stonework.

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JSTOR is an online archive of academic journals and primary sources. The JSTOR archive includes content in History, Language & Literature, Religion, Art & Art History, Education, Law, Science and Political Science. Most journals in the archive are added 3-5 years after the publication date.

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Suggesgted City Books

The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding by Hughes
ISBN: 9780394753666
Diggers, Constables, and Bushrangers: The New Zealand Gold Rushes as a Fronteir Experience, 1852-1876 by John Hutchins
ISBN: 9781933933030
Publication Date: 2010-09-10
Entanglements of empire missionaries, Māori, and the question of the body by Tony Ballantyne
ISBN: 9781775587996
Publication Date: 2015-03-16
"The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Maori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of cultural engagement, with Maori and missionaries struggling over hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. Entanglements of Empire is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitche, and farmyard, Maori and English mutually influenced each other's worldviews. Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand's formal colonization, this book offers and important contribution to debates over religion and empire."--OCLC.

Internet Resources

Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library
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Maintained by the Australian National University in conjunction with the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) WWW Virtual Library, this metasite provides links to over 100 specialist information sites.
Te Puna Web Directory
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Directory of New Zealand and Pacific Island web resources maintained by the National Library of New Zealand. Includes separate directories for Maori and Pacific Island sites.

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