Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 9, 2018 17:25:22 GMT 12
ACADEMIC TELLS SAM NEILL MĀORI NOT EXPLOITED IN EARLY EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS
Māori were certainly not exploited or victims in their early encounters with Europeans, believes a Waikato University academic.
Speaking on the latest episode of Uncharted with Sam Neill airing on Sunday night, the School of Māori and Pacific Development's professor of research Ngahuia Te Awekotuku told the actor how "we were friends and we were equals" when tribes first met the crew of Captain Cook's Endeavour in the late 1860s.
"We tend to romanticise how Māori were and sometimes I get annoyed by that. We're so often portrayed as being stolen from or exploited.
"Māori were conscious of what they were doing and even though new we have taken the more righteous view of them being the preyed upon, we were the predators too.".....
www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/106945689/mori-not-exploited-in-early-european-encounters-academic-tells-sam-neill
Māori were certainly not exploited or victims in their early encounters with Europeans, believes a Waikato University academic.
Speaking on the latest episode of Uncharted with Sam Neill airing on Sunday night, the School of Māori and Pacific Development's professor of research Ngahuia Te Awekotuku told the actor how "we were friends and we were equals" when tribes first met the crew of Captain Cook's Endeavour in the late 1860s.
"We tend to romanticise how Māori were and sometimes I get annoyed by that. We're so often portrayed as being stolen from or exploited.
"Māori were conscious of what they were doing and even though new we have taken the more righteous view of them being the preyed upon, we were the predators too.".....
www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/106945689/mori-not-exploited-in-early-european-encounters-academic-tells-sam-neill