Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 19, 2017 5:37:02 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to NZHerald 11/2/17)
"When Bill English discusses water rights with tribes he compromises the democratic rights of all the other people of New Zealand."
"Dame Patsy Reddy, the Governor-General, seems to think that "kawanatanga", ceded completely and for ever by the chiefs at Waitangi, is something less than sovereignty. Does she think that Hobson was a fool?"
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Press 7/2/17)
Lyall Lukey’s reference to “ Richard Tankersley’s article on Ngai Tahu’s long fight for justice” ignores the fact that the 1998 settlement was Ngai Tahu’s fifth “full and final settlement”. The fourth, in 1973 was accepted by 109 formal resolutions at about 80 tribal meetings, as noted by Whetu Tirikatne-Sullivan. It is a mockery that the fifth was ever entertained by the Waitangi Tribunal and accepted by compliant politicians. One false claim was accepted because it allegedly had “a convincing ring about it”. Evison had only part of the story..
Tankersley is evidently a connection of pale-faced tattooed Louise Tankersley whose 2004 story “Te Tiriti O Waitangi and Community Development” is a grossly distorted tale, typical of Lukey’s ”post-truth era”.
Lukey refers to “ the importance of the role of historians” in it. It is precisely our establishment historians who have distorted much of New Zealand’s history almost beyond recognition.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
"When Bill English discusses water rights with tribes he compromises the democratic rights of all the other people of New Zealand."
"Dame Patsy Reddy, the Governor-General, seems to think that "kawanatanga", ceded completely and for ever by the chiefs at Waitangi, is something less than sovereignty. Does she think that Hobson was a fool?"
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Press 7/2/17)
Lyall Lukey’s reference to “ Richard Tankersley’s article on Ngai Tahu’s long fight for justice” ignores the fact that the 1998 settlement was Ngai Tahu’s fifth “full and final settlement”. The fourth, in 1973 was accepted by 109 formal resolutions at about 80 tribal meetings, as noted by Whetu Tirikatne-Sullivan. It is a mockery that the fifth was ever entertained by the Waitangi Tribunal and accepted by compliant politicians. One false claim was accepted because it allegedly had “a convincing ring about it”. Evison had only part of the story..
Tankersley is evidently a connection of pale-faced tattooed Louise Tankersley whose 2004 story “Te Tiriti O Waitangi and Community Development” is a grossly distorted tale, typical of Lukey’s ”post-truth era”.
Lukey refers to “ the importance of the role of historians” in it. It is precisely our establishment historians who have distorted much of New Zealand’s history almost beyond recognition.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters