Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 25, 2021 10:43:36 GMT 12
TE REO MAORI BRUTALLY SUPPRESSED AT NATIVE SCHOOLS? - K R Bolton
One of the myths that is perpetrated by the Europhobic version of New Zealand history is that the Crown brutally suppressed, especially with the use of corporal punishment, the speaking of Maori in the Native Schools. The aim we are told, was to totally eliminate the Maori language. For this colonialist, ‘white supremacist’, ‘racist’ act of what is called ‘linguicide’, the Crown (i.e., the New Zealand European) yet again, must be held morally and financially accountable, and this must include – yet again - an apology, in an apologetic cycle that never ends......
.......However, some recent Maori scholarship has aimed to show that Maoris were not acquiescent victims. The contention, which the authors state is intended to be ‘provocative’, state that Maoris sought to empower themselves by demanding that their children be taught English so that they might take full advantage of European trade, commodities and technology, although it is too much to expect even from these heretical scholars that they concede anything to the European other than again condemning colonialism. The researchers state that the Maori chiefs and elders demanded the imposition of the English language in schools. Since before the Treaty of Waitangi,.....
theeuropeannewzealander.net/2021/09/24/new-zealand-history-v/
One of the myths that is perpetrated by the Europhobic version of New Zealand history is that the Crown brutally suppressed, especially with the use of corporal punishment, the speaking of Maori in the Native Schools. The aim we are told, was to totally eliminate the Maori language. For this colonialist, ‘white supremacist’, ‘racist’ act of what is called ‘linguicide’, the Crown (i.e., the New Zealand European) yet again, must be held morally and financially accountable, and this must include – yet again - an apology, in an apologetic cycle that never ends......
.......However, some recent Maori scholarship has aimed to show that Maoris were not acquiescent victims. The contention, which the authors state is intended to be ‘provocative’, state that Maoris sought to empower themselves by demanding that their children be taught English so that they might take full advantage of European trade, commodities and technology, although it is too much to expect even from these heretical scholars that they concede anything to the European other than again condemning colonialism. The researchers state that the Maori chiefs and elders demanded the imposition of the English language in schools. Since before the Treaty of Waitangi,.....
theeuropeannewzealander.net/2021/09/24/new-zealand-history-v/