ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the dynamic interrelationships of law, 'race', gender and nation in a current, specific process for redressing historical racial injustices. It argues that the stories of national identity told about the partnership of Treaty settlements operated to produce a new individual identity of Maori entrepreneurs and to assimilate some Maori men to this new identity. At the symbolic level the settlement partnerships are temporary alliances of men across race. The chapter argues that the logic of assimilation left the residue of this new identity, its difference from new enterprise society more generally, as a mark of race that remained, for example, in the labelling of these men as 'corporate warriors'. It discusses that the Treaty settlements process silenced and erased Maori women as leaders and activists in national imaginary. Most analyses of Treaty settlements process in Aotearoa New Zealand focus on dynamics of 'race', neglecting to analyse the law and policy process for gender, especially using postcolonial theory.
