Remaking landscape and memory
"The way Captain Cook overlaid English names on Māori whenua was a powerful means of claiming intellectual and political sovereignty.
Putting Māori place names back where they belong, and recognising those sites as Māori places, is an important part of decentring Cook and asserting the mana and vitality of Māori ways of understanding the past." #ETangata #Indigeverse #Māori
https://e-tangata.co.nz/history/remaking-landscape-and-memory