Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 18, 2023 12:52:18 GMT 12
MAORI, SLAVES, TREATY, FARMING, TRADE
G S writes > Yet another great summary from Bruce Moon, they must have been fascination and frightening times.
There would have been many happy slaves at that point, most of them had a very uncertain future, would they be killed and eaten that day or the next, THE SIGNING OF THE TREATY SAW THEM RELEASED FROM SLAVERY AND GAVE THEM A FUTURE THEY WOULD NEVER HAD ENVISAGED. What has happened to their descendants ? Do they support the true intent of the treaty or are they now part of the group that will benefit from the twisting of its meaning?
What I find particularly interesting is HOW QUICKLY MAORI ADOPTED EUROPEAN FARMING PRACTICES AND UNDERSTOOD THE VALUE OF TRADE. ‘One Sun in the Sky’ tells us that by 1853 they had developed 10 flour mills in the Waikato and were building more and by 1858 they had amassed a coastal shipping fleet of 53 vessels of more that 14 tonnes. That to me is significant in itself, 20 years earlier they were slaughtering each other and resorting to the horrid practice of cannabalism.
The signing of the Treaty and the adopting of British law gave them a new life and the old Chiefs were smart enough to recognise this. I suspect today's greedy, whining treaty distorters who have shown complete disregard for the wishes of the old chiefs would have been suitably dealt with.
MAORI CULTURE CLUB
P T writes > There’s nothing wonderful about being Māori. How can there be? The Māori race is extinct. Now we have I’m told I once had a Māori relative, some 60 years ago, so despite my predominantly European genes, I must be a Māori. Besides there’s money in it. Oozing integrity, I am.
There are no 100% Māori dna persons left. As day turns to night turns to funerals the less there is any Māori dna. You can’t regenerate it. Jurassic Park was fiction. Todays pretend Māori have a memory of a Māori ancestor. They are in fact European. There is no longer a Māori race. There is a maori culture club however.
G S writes > Yet another great summary from Bruce Moon, they must have been fascination and frightening times.
There would have been many happy slaves at that point, most of them had a very uncertain future, would they be killed and eaten that day or the next, THE SIGNING OF THE TREATY SAW THEM RELEASED FROM SLAVERY AND GAVE THEM A FUTURE THEY WOULD NEVER HAD ENVISAGED. What has happened to their descendants ? Do they support the true intent of the treaty or are they now part of the group that will benefit from the twisting of its meaning?
What I find particularly interesting is HOW QUICKLY MAORI ADOPTED EUROPEAN FARMING PRACTICES AND UNDERSTOOD THE VALUE OF TRADE. ‘One Sun in the Sky’ tells us that by 1853 they had developed 10 flour mills in the Waikato and were building more and by 1858 they had amassed a coastal shipping fleet of 53 vessels of more that 14 tonnes. That to me is significant in itself, 20 years earlier they were slaughtering each other and resorting to the horrid practice of cannabalism.
The signing of the Treaty and the adopting of British law gave them a new life and the old Chiefs were smart enough to recognise this. I suspect today's greedy, whining treaty distorters who have shown complete disregard for the wishes of the old chiefs would have been suitably dealt with.
MAORI CULTURE CLUB
P T writes > There’s nothing wonderful about being Māori. How can there be? The Māori race is extinct. Now we have I’m told I once had a Māori relative, some 60 years ago, so despite my predominantly European genes, I must be a Māori. Besides there’s money in it. Oozing integrity, I am.
There are no 100% Māori dna persons left. As day turns to night turns to funerals the less there is any Māori dna. You can’t regenerate it. Jurassic Park was fiction. Todays pretend Māori have a memory of a Māori ancestor. They are in fact European. There is no longer a Māori race. There is a maori culture club however.