Papers by Patricia O'Brien
The Journal of Pacific History, 2014
This paper unearths the friendship between Samoan nationalist leader Ta'isi Olaf Frederick Nelson... more This paper unearths the friendship between Samoan nationalist leader Ta'isi Olaf Frederick Nelson and Māori politician Sir Maui Pomare during the early period of New Zealand's administration of Samoa. It examines the role this friendship playedespecially as a line of communication between the Samoan protest movement or Mau, of which Nelson was a leader, and the highest echelons of the New Zealand governmentin those years of fraught relations between Samoa and New Zealand. It also explores the significant historical connections that were made, or remade, through this friendship. The relationship between these two men brought Polynesian peoples together in new ways and also directly linked Parihaka, a 19th-century Māori community known for its non-violent resistance against European colonialism, with the later Samoan Mau.
History Australia
Illuminating unexplored dimensions of the Sāmoan interwar nationalist movement known as the Mau, ... more Illuminating unexplored dimensions of the Sāmoan interwar nationalist movement known as the Mau, this article tells the story of Australians who impacted the history of Indigenous protest in the League of Nations Mandated Territory of Western Samoa ruled by New Zealand. This is a story that bridges Pacific, colonial and Indigenous worlds with the Sāmoan nationalist leader, Ta’isi O. F. Nelson, located at its epicentre. As well as shedding light on the roles played by Australians in the fraught politics of the 1920s and 1930s, it also establishes unknown or forgotten connections between Australia and the Polynesian Pacific, and of Sāmoans in Australia at this time.
The Journal of Pacific History
Pacific Historical Review, 2009
... 8 / INTRODUCTION c. "Freshwater Amateur Swimming Club Gala 1949.&amp... more ... 8 / INTRODUCTION c. "Freshwater Amateur Swimming Club Gala 1949." With permission of the Local Studies Collection Warrmgah Library Services ... different climatic zones, colonization differed markedly from temperate and tropical Pacific littorals to the pas-toral frontiers of ...
Journal of Women's History, 2012
Journal of Australian Studies, 1999
Australian Historical Studies, 2009
Australian Historical Studies, 2012
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Papers by Patricia O'Brien