Mistress of everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous worlds
Introduction: Indigenous histories, settler colonies and Queen Victoria Maria Nugent and Sarah Carter Part I Monarch, metaphor, memory 1. 'We have seen the son of Heaven/We have seen the Son of Our Queen' African encounters with Prince Alfred on his royal tour, 1860 Hilary Sapire 2. 'We rejoice to honour the Queen, for she is a good woman, who cares for the Maori race' Loyalty and protest in Maori politics in nineteenth century New Zealand Michael Belgrave 3. 'The faithful children of the Great Mother are starving' Queen Victoria in contact zone dialogues in western Canada Sarah Carter 4. The politics of memory and the memory of politics: Australian Aboriginal interpretations of Queen Victoria, 1881 2011 Maria Nugent Part II Royal relations 5. 'My vast Empire all its many peoples' Queen Victoria's imperial family Barbara Caine 6. Maori encounters with 'Wikitoria' in 1863 and Albert VictorPomare, her Maori godchild Chanel Clarke 7. Southern African royalty and delegates visit Queen Victoria, 1882 95 Neil Parsons Part III Sovereign subjects? 8. Sovereignty performances, sovereignty testings: The Queen's currency and imperial pedagogies on Australia's south eastern settler frontiers Penelope Edmonds 9. Bracelets, blankets and badges of distinction: Aboriginal subjects and Queen Victoria's gifts in Canada and Australia Amanda Nettelbeck 10. Chiefly women: Queen Victoria, Meri Mangakahia, and the Maori parliament Miranda Johnson Select bibliography Index