Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 22, 2017 8:53:28 GMT 12
Today we (Kapiti Independent) welcome a new columnist in Dr John Robinson. John lives in Waikanae and his writings on our past challenge many of the politically correct myths which many so-called professional historians perpetuate.
GETTING TO THE TRUTH ABOUT NZ HISTORY
Social disintegration in Maori society
It is simple enough. Savage inter-tribal warfare had led to social disintegration, and by 1840 there was a considerable shortage of women and girls in the Maori population.
Few women meant few new births. Few girls (the mothers of the future) meant a lack of women to produce children for decades into the future.
Decline was inevitable and the turnaround, within 40 years, was rapid in population dynamics, which is a generations-long process.
A paper on this work was rejected, and claims of collapse caused by the Treaty continue to dominate current ‘scholarship’.
Chiefs seek British help to end the disastrous tribal wars
Many Maori were themselves deeply concerned with the extraordinary nation-wide intertribal warfare and could see that their society was dysfunctional, and that their numbers were reducing significantly.
That, along with the new culture on offer, led them, in particular a group of Northern chiefs, to seek change. They repeatedly asked the British for help before welcoming the Treaty of Waitangi – they were so keen that after one short day of debate they caught Hobson unawares with a demand to sign the very next day.
The cultural revolution was general, with a majority of Maori signing up to Christianity in the years around 1840......
Read Dr John Robinson’s full first of a series articles here > kapitiindependentnews.net.nz/new-zealand-history/
GETTING TO THE TRUTH ABOUT NZ HISTORY
Social disintegration in Maori society
It is simple enough. Savage inter-tribal warfare had led to social disintegration, and by 1840 there was a considerable shortage of women and girls in the Maori population.
Few women meant few new births. Few girls (the mothers of the future) meant a lack of women to produce children for decades into the future.
Decline was inevitable and the turnaround, within 40 years, was rapid in population dynamics, which is a generations-long process.
A paper on this work was rejected, and claims of collapse caused by the Treaty continue to dominate current ‘scholarship’.
Chiefs seek British help to end the disastrous tribal wars
Many Maori were themselves deeply concerned with the extraordinary nation-wide intertribal warfare and could see that their society was dysfunctional, and that their numbers were reducing significantly.
That, along with the new culture on offer, led them, in particular a group of Northern chiefs, to seek change. They repeatedly asked the British for help before welcoming the Treaty of Waitangi – they were so keen that after one short day of debate they caught Hobson unawares with a demand to sign the very next day.
The cultural revolution was general, with a majority of Maori signing up to Christianity in the years around 1840......
Read Dr John Robinson’s full first of a series articles here > kapitiindependentnews.net.nz/new-zealand-history/