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The One Tree Hill Memorial

The Obelisk and Maori Chief Statue at One Tree Hill. Auckland, New Zealand.

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  • Monumentalizing Indigenous Disappearance

    story by Ryan van Nood.

    How can a monument erected in honor of a living Indigenous culture appear to endorse that culture’s erasure? How might the seemingly pure enterprise of expanding scientific knowledge pose a threat to a people’s continued existence? Auckland, New Zealand’s One Tree Hill Memorial can help us tell such a story.

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