{"id":27958,"date":"2013-01-31T01:13:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T01:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27958"},"modified":"2013-01-31T01:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T01:13:15","slug":"race-and-indigeneity-in-the-life-of-elisha-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27958","title":{"rendered":"Race and Indigeneity in the Life of Elisha Apes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race and Indigeneity in the Life of Elisha Apes<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ethnohistory<\/a>
\nVolume 60, Number 1<\/a> (Winter 2013)
\npages 27-50
\nDOI: 10.1215\/00141801-1816166<\/a><\/p>\n

Nancy Shoemaker<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History
\nUniversity of Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n

This essay examines cultures of racial categorization in New England<\/a> and New Zealand<\/a> through the life of one migrant, Elisha Apes, the younger half-brother of the radical Pequot Indian<\/a> writer William Apess<\/a>, who preferred to spell the family name with a second s<\/em>. Elisha Apes settled in New Zealand in 1839 and married a M\u0101ori<\/a> woman of the South Island<\/a>. Their six children came to be labeled \u201chalf-castes<\/a>\u201d in the language of the nineteenth-century New Zealand state. If half-caste<\/em> had been a term in New England, it would have been applied to Elisha Apes, for he was indeed of mixed descent. However, in New Zealand, where native<\/em> referred to the M\u0101ori only, Apes’s native origins elsewhere had no bearing. His status as a foreigner who came to settle in New Zealand cast him into the same category as New Zealand’s European\/white population.<\/p>\n

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Race and Indigeneity in the Life of Elisha Apes Ethnohistory Volume 60, Number 1 (Winter 2013) pages 27-50 DOI: 10.1215\/00141801-1816166 Nancy Shoemaker, Professor of History University of Connecticut This essay examines cultures of racial categorization in New England and New Zealand through the life of one migrant, Elisha Apes, the younger half-brother of the radical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,4405,20],"tags":[13537,5268,13536,2699,1000],"class_list":["post-27958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-usa","tag-elisha-apes","tag-ethnohistory","tag-nancy-shoemaker","tag-new-england","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}