ABSTRACT
In the waning years of the twentieth century the issues of Indigenous politics came to occupy a central place in the politics of the settler colonies. In Australia and New Zealand, politics came to revolve around Indigenous land use and ownership, and sovereignty and the law as they applied to the First Nations of those countries. Issues that had been central to the early nineteenth-century imperial regimes thus re-emerged to remind us of the deep historical continuities that existed in the settler societies and the legacies from the past that still remained to be reckoned with.
