Foreword / Sir Peter Tapsell -- Preface -- 1. HOW TO ANALYSE THE WAITANGI PROCESS -- Introduction -- Method : against abstraction -- Theme : morality and reality -- 2. THE CONTEXT OF THE WAITANGI PROCESS -- What does the Treaty mean -- Historical injustices -- Setting up the tribunal -- Legal developments -- What does the Treaty mean? (revisited) -- 3. THE CULTURAL QUESTION -- The international dimension of the Waitangi process -- The academic and intellectual dimension -- The question of culture -- Culture and morality -- Keeping Maori culture alive -- Culture and finality -- 4. POLITICAL AND OTHER REALITIES -- The argument so far -- What is New Zealand? -- The silent majority -- Assimilation : hope and nightmare -- Universities, politicisation and boundaries -- Bureaucratic collectivism -- Can benefits be self-defeating -- How to get rich -- Economy and culture -- 5. CONCLUSION -- The clash of the abstractions -- Legal developments reconsidered -- New Zealand in danger -- Recommendations