Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 1, 2023 16:04:10 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: THE DISHONESTY OF PROFESSOR MARGARET MUTU
“The colonisation of this country by the British was illegitimate and illegal, and it’s done huge damage. That has to be fixed.” – Margaret Mutu.
There is abundant evidence that New Zealand had been visited and populated by non-Maori peoples before the Maori tribes arrived circa 1350, and by Europeans and others from the late eighteenth century onwards. The Maori exterminated pre-existing inhabitants and now lay claim to being ‘indigenous’. The advent of post-Maori arrivals by and large brought co-existence with extensive inter-breeding but not always in harmony.
None the less, brutal inter-tribal warfare, conquests and massacres continued, around one-third of the Maori population perishing in the so-called “Musket Wars” of 1807-37. The conflict arising from the arrival of Frenchman, Marion du Fresne in 1772 led to a morbid fear of “the tribe of Marion”. Chaotic selling of land in exchange for European consumer goods developed.
Far-seeing, notably Ngapuhi, chiefs recognized that this situation could not be allowed to continue. They appealed to King William of Great Britain and in 1833 James Busby arrived as British Resident but with no means to exert any authority or apply any remedial action.
A more substantial solution was evidently essential and one was adopted which was elegant and simple: the acceptance by a substantial number of Maori chiefs of British sovereignty over the whole country. In 1839, Captain William Hobson of the Royal Navy was despatched to New Zealand with a 4200-word brief from the Colonial Secretary, Lord Normanby, on the procedures he was to adopt to attain this goal.
In this he was remarkably successful and as a result:......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/01/bruce-moon-dishonesty-of-professor.html
“The colonisation of this country by the British was illegitimate and illegal, and it’s done huge damage. That has to be fixed.” – Margaret Mutu.
There is abundant evidence that New Zealand had been visited and populated by non-Maori peoples before the Maori tribes arrived circa 1350, and by Europeans and others from the late eighteenth century onwards. The Maori exterminated pre-existing inhabitants and now lay claim to being ‘indigenous’. The advent of post-Maori arrivals by and large brought co-existence with extensive inter-breeding but not always in harmony.
None the less, brutal inter-tribal warfare, conquests and massacres continued, around one-third of the Maori population perishing in the so-called “Musket Wars” of 1807-37. The conflict arising from the arrival of Frenchman, Marion du Fresne in 1772 led to a morbid fear of “the tribe of Marion”. Chaotic selling of land in exchange for European consumer goods developed.
Far-seeing, notably Ngapuhi, chiefs recognized that this situation could not be allowed to continue. They appealed to King William of Great Britain and in 1833 James Busby arrived as British Resident but with no means to exert any authority or apply any remedial action.
A more substantial solution was evidently essential and one was adopted which was elegant and simple: the acceptance by a substantial number of Maori chiefs of British sovereignty over the whole country. In 1839, Captain William Hobson of the Royal Navy was despatched to New Zealand with a 4200-word brief from the Colonial Secretary, Lord Normanby, on the procedures he was to adopt to attain this goal.
In this he was remarkably successful and as a result:......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/01/bruce-moon-dishonesty-of-professor.html