Indigenous Textual Cultures

Tony Ballantyne is Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the Division of Humanities at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His many books include Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body, also published by Duke University Press.Lachy Paterson is Professor at the University of Otago's Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies.Angela Wanhalla is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago.

• Acknowledgements  ixIntroduction. Indigenous Textual Cultures, the Politics of Difference, and the Dynamism of Practice / Tony Ballantyne and Lachy Paterson  1Part I. Archives and Debates1. Ka Waihona Palapala Māneleo: Research in a Time of Plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian-Language Archives / Noelani Arista  312. Kanak Writings and Written Tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's 1917 War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle  603. Māori Lteracy Practices in Colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson  80Part II. Orality and Texts4. "Don't Destroy the Writing": Time-and Space-Based Communication and the Colonial Strategy of Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century Salish-Missionary Relations on Canada's Pacific Coast / Keith Thor Carlson5. Talking Traditions: Orality, Ecology, and Spirituality in Mangaia's Textual Culture / Michael P. J. Reilly  1316. Polynesian Family Manuscripts (Puta Tuana) from the Society and Austral Islands: Interior History, Formal Logic, and Social Uses / Bruno Saura  154Part III. Readers7. Print Media, the Swahili Language, and Textual Cultures in Twentieth-Century Tanzania, ca. 1923–1939 / Emma Hunter  1758. Going Off Script: Aboriginal Rejection and Repurposing of English Literacies / Laura Radmaker  1959. "Read It, Don't Smoke It!": Developing and Maintaining Literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman  216Part IV. Writers10. Colonial Copyright, Customs, and Indigenous Textualities: Literary Authority and Textual Citizenship / Isabel Hofmeyr  24511. He Pukapuka Tataku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui: Reading Te Rauparaha through Time / Arini Loader  26312. Writing and Beyond in Indigenous North America: The Occom Network / Ivy Schweitzer  289Bibliography  315Contributors  345Index

“Indigenous Textual Cultures is a cohesive, well-edited collection of twelve articles written by an international community of experts in indigenous cultures and colonialism. . . . These scholars bring a fresh approach that focuses on using original-language indigenous sources and interpreting this array of materials within their proper cultural contexts.” - Julie K. Tanaka (RBM) “Research that draws on decolonizing methodologies remains urgent and necessary. This powerful, eloquent collection of new essays sets innovative agendas for this research.” - Gillian Whitlock (Australian Historical Studies) “Each chapter offers well-written, engaging, and thoughtful illustrations and analyses. . . . [Indigenous Textual Cultures] is an important contribution to the role of communication in the vicious and devastating struggles between colonial structures and Indigenous communities.” - David Troolin (Pacific Affairs) “There is great value in this collection for historians of the American West. . . . Each chapter brings much needed nuance to our understanding of Indigenous responses to colonialism and forced assimilation.” - Justin Gage (Western Historical Quarterly) "The wide variety of topics covered and the discussion of so many different Indigenous textual cultures have helped create a collection that is an extremely important resource. In particular, this book will appeal to researchers from a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, postcolonial studies, linguistics and Indigenous studies and, more specifically, to anyone who is interested in transcultural concepts. The coverage of various theoretical and methodological approaches as well as the Indigenous perspectives voiced are very impressive, sound and innovative." - Hanne Birk (Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies)