1. The Maori are the indigenous people (tangata whenua) of New Zealand.

2. See James D. Marshall, The Treaty of Waitangi, Educational Reforms and the Education of Maori, Monograph no.1, (Auckland: Research Unit in Maori Education, The University of Auckland, 1991). Michael Peters and James Marshall "Te Reo O Te Tai Tokerau: Community Evaluation, Empowerment, and Opportunities of Oral Maori Language Reproduction," Future Directions: Report of the Royal Commission on Social Policy, vol. 3 (Wellington: Royal Commission on Social Policy, 1988), 703-44.

3. Jacques Derrida, Monolingualism of the Other or the Prothesis of Origin, translated by Patrick Mensah (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).

4. E. Durie, E. Taihakurei, G.T. Latimer, and P.B. Temm, Finding of the Waitangi Tribunal Relating to Te Reo Maori (Wellington: Government Printer, 1986), 15.

5. Ibid., 46.

6. Ibid., 43.

7. McKenzie, D.F. Oral Culture, Literacy and Print in Early New Zealand: the Treaty of Waitangi (Wellington: Victoria University Press with the Alexander Turnbill Library Endowment Trust, 1985), 32.

8. Michael Peters and James Marshall, Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Postmodernism, Pedagogy (Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1999).

9. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford:Blackwell, 1953) and Saul Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Languages (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).

10. See, for example, R.S.Peters, Ethics and Education, (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1966), in which rules are associated with authoritative and authoritarian pronouncements.

11. Peters and Marshall, Wittgenstein, chap. 3 and 4.