ABSTRACT
One of the most recognisable symbols of British expansionism, industrialisation, and Christianity is the clock, and its dissemination across the globe was central in the colonisation of Indigenous peoples. In Aotearoa, the standardisation of Western time was part of a larger programme to assimilated Māori as British subjects. Hence, many Māori environmental and ecological time keeping systems were replaced with the clock. Yet in recent times the celebration of the winter pre-dawn rising of Matariki (Pleiades), which marks the Māori New Year, has been revived as a means to reintroduce a Māori system of time to Aotearoa.
