Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 15, 2022 9:48:21 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: STUFF PUBLISHES JADE KAKE’S HISTORICAL NONSENSE: A RESPONSE
A decimated Maori economic base?
An article in Stuff, 10 February 2022 by Jade Kake, an architectural designer in Whangarei of Dutch and Maori descent, purports to address “the tribal economic base that has been decimated through the widespread and large-scale theft of land.” She ignores, one notes, the fact that the “tribal economic base” — of $9 billion as at 7.2.2019 — has never been higher than it is today. Ngai Tahu, the richest tribe on the back of “Waitangi Tribunal” settlements described by several authors as “a swindle” and “a fraud” (for which references are available), possessed $1.5 billion at 4.10.2021.
Inaccurate sweeping statements on land ownership
She commences by saying: “When the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, Māori owned more than 66 million acres of land. By 1975, almost 97 per cent had been sold or taken.” and then “As most people know, Te Tiriti o Waitangi is one of the foundational documents (alongside He Whakaputanga, Declaration of Independence) of Aotearoa New Zealand and an agreement which has largely not been honoured by the British Crown.”
These are sweeping statements indeed! It is surely rather presumptuous to include Busby’s 1835 paper tiger the “Declaration of Independence” and omitting the rather important point that at that time, and for several decades to come, New Zealand was never referred to as “Aotearoa”!......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/03/bruce-moon-stuff-publishes-jade-kakes.html
A decimated Maori economic base?
An article in Stuff, 10 February 2022 by Jade Kake, an architectural designer in Whangarei of Dutch and Maori descent, purports to address “the tribal economic base that has been decimated through the widespread and large-scale theft of land.” She ignores, one notes, the fact that the “tribal economic base” — of $9 billion as at 7.2.2019 — has never been higher than it is today. Ngai Tahu, the richest tribe on the back of “Waitangi Tribunal” settlements described by several authors as “a swindle” and “a fraud” (for which references are available), possessed $1.5 billion at 4.10.2021.
Inaccurate sweeping statements on land ownership
She commences by saying: “When the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, Māori owned more than 66 million acres of land. By 1975, almost 97 per cent had been sold or taken.” and then “As most people know, Te Tiriti o Waitangi is one of the foundational documents (alongside He Whakaputanga, Declaration of Independence) of Aotearoa New Zealand and an agreement which has largely not been honoured by the British Crown.”
These are sweeping statements indeed! It is surely rather presumptuous to include Busby’s 1835 paper tiger the “Declaration of Independence” and omitting the rather important point that at that time, and for several decades to come, New Zealand was never referred to as “Aotearoa”!......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/03/bruce-moon-stuff-publishes-jade-kakes.html