The Wrong White Crowd

Maoris have been told to take a step back and understand that many white people feel New Zealand also belongs to them, writes Louise Williams. CAN a white man ever be considered "indigenous" in the land his forebears stole or "bought" for a handful of trinkets and beads? New Zealand's most influential contemporary historian, Dr Michael King, insisted he could. King called himself a "white native", a member of a new race of New Zealanders so intimately connected and committed to the land of their ...