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Book Review

Oceania and the Pacific Islands

Giselle Byrnes. The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 222. $35.00.
The Treaty of Waitangi is probably the single most prominent feature in New Zealand's nineteenth-century historical landscape. Essentially a cession of some degree of sovereignty to the British crown, it was concluded between Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson and around 540 Maori chiefs over several months during 1840.	1
In the ensuing one-and-a-half centuries, the crown perpetrated numerous breaches of the treaty's provisions—a fact it tentatively confronted only as recently as 1975, with the creation of the Waitangi Tribunal. The Tribunal was established as an on-going commission of inquiry into these breaches, with the power to recommend to the crown appropriate resolutions. In the years since 1975, the Tribunal's jurisdiction has been extended, and it has become one of the most prolific producers of New Zealand historical material—material that has been collected and arranged in order to assist with the resolution of Maori claims to the Tribunal. As with many other cases of reparations on a national scale, the work of the Tribunal navigates its way through the cultural and political sensitivities of the affected parties, something that has gradually conferred on the Tribunal itself an almost sanctified status. To dismantle this edifice and to lay out the pieces for analysis is therefore a task demanding considerable personal fortitude as well as intellectual rigor. Giselle Byrnes's seminal work does exactly this.	. . .

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