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The Editor, (Sent to the Waikato Times 31/7/16)
I read Leone Pihama's litany of excuses and vindictive
accusations ( Waikato Times, date ? ) with the old familiar feeling of
deep anger and even deeper despair.
I know how fruitless it would be to counter her nonsense with a whole
world of truths and historical facts. They would bounce straight off the
hide-bound prejudices which were first instilled into her with her
mothers milk.
However there is one thing that she and all of her ilk should seriously
consider, and it is this : ~ Every person who habitually blames others
for their self-inflicted problems takes the resolution of those problems
completely out of their own hands.
Frankly, I believe that this is precisely their intention - so that the
may live perpetually in a helpless state of finger-pointing resentment.
C R.
Dunedin
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 26/7/16)
The ‘real war’ Rod Rattenbury refers to (Letters15/7/16) was in fact a series of skirmishes where between 1843 and 1869 approx 2,900 lives were lost, 2,154 rebelling Maoris and 745 government troops, colonists and loyal Maori. This could hardly be labelled ‘war’?
Compare this with the musket wars 1807 – 1845 (Maori against Maori) where approx 50,000 Maori lost their lives. In Auckland alone in just one battle approx 2,000 were slaughtered.
Rod is correct in saying “most of us do not know what happened in the 1860s”, could this be because a twisted and sanitised version of history is being taught in our schools with pakeha ‘baddies’, Maori ‘goodies’?
It is today’s indigenous pretenders that should be feeling shame, their ancestors committed atrocities against innocents, we do not hear to much about these?: The killing of twelve helpless captives at Wairau in 1843. Six members of the Gilfillan family were tomahawked to death 1847. Maori magistrate Rawiri Waiaka, his brother Paora and three family members were murdered in 1854. The killing at Te Ahuahu, Taranaki of Captain Lloyd and seven others by Hau Hau 1864. Völkner was hanged near his church, Te Whakatōhea in 1865. Three Government agents sent to investigate Volkner's murder were also murdered in 1865 by the hauhaus. The Matawhero massacre of about 70 sleeping settler and Maori families (men, wives and children) in 1868. The bayonetting of the Lavin children and slaughter of their parents and two other Europeans at Mohaka by Hau Hau in 1869, about 40 Maori were also slaughtered in the same raid. A Ngati Maniopoto gang murdered the Rev. John Whiteley at Pukearuhe in northern Taranaki February 1869, they also murdered Bamber Gascoygne, his wife and children and two unarmed men.
Parihaka incident was about reclaiming of government land from a Maori cult that had squatted on it for 14 years. They were repeatedly asked to move and warned of the consequences if they stayed. No lives were lost in the reclaiming, only one small boys foot got accidentally trod on by a horse. Later 250 arms and a variety of ammunition were found in this republic of peace, which had harboured known criminals. During their occupation these pillars of society ploughed up settlers fields, stole horses, pulled down stockyards, and harassed shopkeepers. Enough said.
Geoffrey T Parker
Whangarei
I read Leone Pihama's litany of excuses and vindictive
accusations ( Waikato Times, date ? ) with the old familiar feeling of
deep anger and even deeper despair.
I know how fruitless it would be to counter her nonsense with a whole
world of truths and historical facts. They would bounce straight off the
hide-bound prejudices which were first instilled into her with her
mothers milk.
However there is one thing that she and all of her ilk should seriously
consider, and it is this : ~ Every person who habitually blames others
for their self-inflicted problems takes the resolution of those problems
completely out of their own hands.
Frankly, I believe that this is precisely their intention - so that the
may live perpetually in a helpless state of finger-pointing resentment.
C R.
Dunedin
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 26/7/16)
The ‘real war’ Rod Rattenbury refers to (Letters15/7/16) was in fact a series of skirmishes where between 1843 and 1869 approx 2,900 lives were lost, 2,154 rebelling Maoris and 745 government troops, colonists and loyal Maori. This could hardly be labelled ‘war’?
Compare this with the musket wars 1807 – 1845 (Maori against Maori) where approx 50,000 Maori lost their lives. In Auckland alone in just one battle approx 2,000 were slaughtered.
Rod is correct in saying “most of us do not know what happened in the 1860s”, could this be because a twisted and sanitised version of history is being taught in our schools with pakeha ‘baddies’, Maori ‘goodies’?
It is today’s indigenous pretenders that should be feeling shame, their ancestors committed atrocities against innocents, we do not hear to much about these?: The killing of twelve helpless captives at Wairau in 1843. Six members of the Gilfillan family were tomahawked to death 1847. Maori magistrate Rawiri Waiaka, his brother Paora and three family members were murdered in 1854. The killing at Te Ahuahu, Taranaki of Captain Lloyd and seven others by Hau Hau 1864. Völkner was hanged near his church, Te Whakatōhea in 1865. Three Government agents sent to investigate Volkner's murder were also murdered in 1865 by the hauhaus. The Matawhero massacre of about 70 sleeping settler and Maori families (men, wives and children) in 1868. The bayonetting of the Lavin children and slaughter of their parents and two other Europeans at Mohaka by Hau Hau in 1869, about 40 Maori were also slaughtered in the same raid. A Ngati Maniopoto gang murdered the Rev. John Whiteley at Pukearuhe in northern Taranaki February 1869, they also murdered Bamber Gascoygne, his wife and children and two unarmed men.
Parihaka incident was about reclaiming of government land from a Maori cult that had squatted on it for 14 years. They were repeatedly asked to move and warned of the consequences if they stayed. No lives were lost in the reclaiming, only one small boys foot got accidentally trod on by a horse. Later 250 arms and a variety of ammunition were found in this republic of peace, which had harboured known criminals. During their occupation these pillars of society ploughed up settlers fields, stole horses, pulled down stockyards, and harassed shopkeepers. Enough said.
Geoffrey T Parker
Whangarei