Transporting Concepts of ‘Native’ Land as Birthright between Fiji and Australia’s North

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" Transporting Concepts of ‘Native’ Land as Birthright between Fiji and Australia’s North "
Kirstie Close-Barry

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083516
Doc. No	:	LA127145
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748945-03003001‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Kirstie Close-Barry
Title & Author	:	Transporting Concepts of ‘Native’ Land as Birthright between Fiji and Australia’s North [Article]\ Kirstie Close-Barry
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	30/3-4
Page No	:	325–345
Abstract	:	This article focuses on the experiences at two Methodist communities in the Pacific and their assertions of sovereignty from the 1920s to the 1960s. It explores the connections between two nodes of the Methodist Mission – Fiji and Australia’s Northern Territory – through one missionary, Kolinio Saukuru. While there were moments of great political mobilisation at each site, efforts to assert Indigenous land ownership and autonomy were hampered by persistent racialized views of the ‘native’ amongst missionaries and the colonial state. This article engages with questions emerging from the histories of colonial missions, particularly whether missions aligned with colonial administrations on strategies of governance. However, it also points to the need to think beyond national boundaries when studying mission histories. An examination of the Methodist Overseas Mission using a transnational framework illuminates a network of Indigenous people who worked to protect what some missionaries and anthropologists considered an Indigenous ‘birthright’: the land. This study therefore expands on the existing historiography of colonial missions, of Indigenous labour, and of land rights activism in Fiji and Australia’s north.
Descriptor	:	aborigène
Descriptor	:	aboriginal
Descriptor	:	agriculture
Descriptor	:	Fidji
Descriptor	:	Fijian
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Methodist
Descriptor	:	Méthodiste
Descriptor	:	Northern Territory
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Territoire du Nord
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748945-03003001‬