Indigenous Youth, Nationhood and Belonging

What is it about?

In colonized societies, a nation's history is often rewritten in ways that misrepresent indigenous people or make them invisible. This paper looks at how indigenous Maori young people in New Zealand resist those pressures by creating tribal and cultural identities and memories outside official histories and state narratives.

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Why is it important?

In settler-colonial societies, indigenous youth are often missed out of conversations about history and nation. This paper places indigenous Maori young people in New Zealand at the center of the analysis and explains how they think about their social worlds in ways that are often radically different from Anglo-European youth.