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Author: nzhistorian
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Reviewing the Treaty principles process 2025
I gave this interview with Andrew Urquhart after the end of the treaty principles bill in 2025. Some summation and reflection on the significance and implications of this national conversation…
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S Carpenter, PhD Thesis, 2020: Reshaping political communities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Although my PhD thesis has been available for several years through the Massey University library webpage, I have not made it directly available myself. Since I have, however, now used…
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Conference paper: Henry Williams’ intellectual formation in English Dissent
… and his views on the Waitara controversy, c. 1860. The slides and recording below represent a conference paper given at the New Zealand Historical Association Conference last week, at…
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Published article on reconciling the Māori and English language texts of the Treaty-te Tiriti
Citation: Samuel D. Carpenter, “Reconciling the Treaty/te Tiriti Through the Discourse of Civil Government/Kāwanatanga,” Journal of New Zealand Studies 39 (2025): 44-64, https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.iNS39.9892. Link also here: Reconciling the Treaty/te Tiriti…
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Marianne Williams and the Missionary Impulse
In this postcolonial age, many things are said and written concerning missionaries to foreign/ indigenous lands. I have just been reading a source which reveals that in its purest, Christian…
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Talk at National Library on Henry Williams + Te Tiriti
I was invited by the National Library, “E Oho! Waitangi!” series, to share my research and insights into Henry Williams’ translation of the Treaty of Waitangi. I append below my…
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Submission on Treaty Principles Bill – January 2025
Below is the Laidlaw College submission on the Bill, prepared by myself, Bradford Haami and Roshan Allpress. (Can be downloaded below.)
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Treaty Principles Bill: The principles need to remain tied to the historical Treaty
Published in the New Zealand Herald last week: online 19 November 2024, print 20 November 2024 Treaty Principles Bill: The principles need to remain tied to the historical Treaty –…
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Translating the Scriptures into te reo Māori in Aotearoa-New Zealand in the 1830s
RECENTLY PUBLISHED: Samuel D. Carpenter, “A Historical–Contextual Analysis of the Use of “Tapu”, “Utu” and “Muru” in the Māori New Testament and Book of Common Prayer,” Religions 15, no. 9,…
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Treaty Principles – A Guide
Video 1 in a mini-series explaining Treaty Principles, what they are and why they were developed. For other videos in this series, go to my YouTube page, https://youtube.com/HistoryisNow READ: Prof.…
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Commentary on Waitangi Tribunal urgent report on Treaty Principles Bill
I gave an interview on Newstalk ZB on Friday 16 August 2024 about the Waitangi Tribunal’s report, released at midday, on the proposed Coalition Govt’s Treaty Principles Bill. The report…
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The Church Missionary Society settlement at Paihia, 1820s-40s
Recently I’ve been seeking to understand the core mission ideas, practices and day-to-day realities of the Paihia mission – the leading mission station of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in…
Samuel D Carpenter 