Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 17, 2019 4:14:51 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 23/2/19)
Re article in the Whanganui Chronicle 23rd Feb, ‘uneasy about our day of celebrations’. I have never read such rubbish as the one written by Dani Lebo. If she is an American she should go back home to her own country, she just doesn’t know anything about our true history of New Zealand.
1st She says we are colonisers living on indigenous land. For a starter Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand. There were other people here before they arrived , even our history and Maori tells us. Some of the people living here before the Maori were Ngati Kahupungapunga, Waitaha, Turehu,Patupaiarere, Ngati Hotu(Celts) Chinese who were all caucasion /fair skinned people except the Moriori who were darker skinned..
2nd Maori are not Tangata Whenua, which means ‘the ancient ones’ or ‘the people before us, until Maori change it to mean themselves.
3rd Dani mentions about our colonial history, what about our pre maori history like the Celt village in the Waipoua forest takes it about 3000 years old covering 600 acres. Koro Pa in New Plymouth built a 1000 years be fore Maori. There also were a miniature Stonehenge with blocks standing six to seven feet above the ground at Kerikeri. and another north of Taupo consisting of fifty great stones.
Dani mentions about celebrating Maori culture, what about Celtic culture.
4th wrong New Zealand has never been called Aotearoa, Maoris never used that word.
If the paper uses you as their new columnist I pity the paper, get your facts right.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
Re article in the Whanganui Chronicle 23rd Feb, ‘uneasy about our day of celebrations’. I have never read such rubbish as the one written by Dani Lebo. If she is an American she should go back home to her own country, she just doesn’t know anything about our true history of New Zealand.
1st She says we are colonisers living on indigenous land. For a starter Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand. There were other people here before they arrived , even our history and Maori tells us. Some of the people living here before the Maori were Ngati Kahupungapunga, Waitaha, Turehu,Patupaiarere, Ngati Hotu(Celts) Chinese who were all caucasion /fair skinned people except the Moriori who were darker skinned..
2nd Maori are not Tangata Whenua, which means ‘the ancient ones’ or ‘the people before us, until Maori change it to mean themselves.
3rd Dani mentions about our colonial history, what about our pre maori history like the Celt village in the Waipoua forest takes it about 3000 years old covering 600 acres. Koro Pa in New Plymouth built a 1000 years be fore Maori. There also were a miniature Stonehenge with blocks standing six to seven feet above the ground at Kerikeri. and another north of Taupo consisting of fifty great stones.
Dani mentions about celebrating Maori culture, what about Celtic culture.
4th wrong New Zealand has never been called Aotearoa, Maoris never used that word.
If the paper uses you as their new columnist I pity the paper, get your facts right.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui