Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 25, 2016 9:37:14 GMT 12
TRIBAL REBELLIONS DAY INDOCTRINATION NOT WANTED
The government is considering setting aside a special holiday every year to indoctrinate us about “land wars” grievances. If you don’t speak out it will probably be set up.
Over 12,000 people signed a petition launched by Otorohanga College pupils Waimarama Anderson and Leah Bell requesting “a national day to commemorate those who lost their lives in the land wars, both Maori and colonial”.
Submissions must be in by April 21.
The aims of the grievance day petition as recorded on Parliament’s website were:
1. To raise awareness of the land wars and how they relate to local history for schools and communities.
2. Introduce these local histories into the New Zealand Curriculum as a course of study for all New Zealanders
3. To memorialise those who gave their lives on New Zealand soil with a statutory day of recognition.
The initiative is presented as the spontaneous idea sparked by visiting the battle sites at Orakau and Rangiaowhia. However, the commemoration idea appeared in 2013, on the 150th anniversary of the start of armed conflict in Waikato.
At that time, Tom Roa of Waikato-Tainui compared the Waikato conflict with the Battle of Gettysburg that was fought during the American Civil War.
The only similarities appear in the date of the two conflicts.
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in Pennsylvania from July 1 to 3, 1863, and government troops crossed the Mangatawhiri River on July 12 of that year.
The scale of casualties is vastly different – around 51,000 were killed at Gettysburg while 781 were killed over one year in Waikato.
There is no Gettysburg Day statutory holiday in the United States.
A “land wars day” would be a misnomer.
The sporadic armed conflict that accompanied the settlement of New Zealand from 1840 should be regarded as tribal rebellions instead of land wars. Therefore we should use the term “tribal rebellions day”.
The three aims of a tribal rebellions day, as detailed above, indicate a strategy to teach a tribal rebellion history to schools and local communities. This is a problem because there are two contradictory views of our history, and a tribal rebellions day would almost certainly teach the griever version of history.
Recorded history appears in national archives, Acts of Parliament, newspapers, letters, diaries, and histories, all written since 1840. Griever history appeared after 1985, when compensation claims back to 18 40 were allowed, in oral testimony by claimants.
Our recorded history says:
1. The Treaty of Waitangi was a simple agreement through which chiefs ceded sovereignty in return for the rights as British subjects, which included the right to possess property and sell if they wished.
2. In little over 100 years, New Zealand went from the Stone Age to the Space Age by incorporating the accumulation of thousands of years of Western tradition.
3. Most chiefly land owners joined in the new economy by selling land and working for the new government and settler employers with a number of chiefs setting up business enterprises.
4. When some tribes in the North, Taranaki, Waikato, and the East Coast rebelled, government forces suppressed these rebellions using military force. Land was confiscated as a consequence
The revised history says:
1. The Treaty of Waitangi was to allow a British governor to keep control of British settlers only. The treaty is difficult to understand and the only people qualified to interpret it are members of the Waitangi Tribunal.
2. Colonisation has ruined a noble and peaceful Maori culture. Maori people should be helped to speak Maori and restore Maori culture to remove all trappings of colonisation.
3. Chiefs lost all their land through dubious means and are entitled to have it all given back.
4. Colonisers decimated the Maori population with war and disease and Maori continue to languish in deprivation.
Our recorded history remained uncontroversial until the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1985 sparked a new process of spinning history into a tale of woe to justify compensation….
Continue reading Mike Butler's alarming NZCPR guest commentary here > www.nzcpr.com/tribal-rebellions-day-indoctrination-not-wanted/#more-17910
.
Make sure to send in a SUBMISSION by April 21, 2016, > tinyurl.com/go5gj6n (Scroll down the page for Submission button)
.
And please sign the NZCPR PETITION > www.nzcpr.com/land-war-petition/
The government is considering setting aside a special holiday every year to indoctrinate us about “land wars” grievances. If you don’t speak out it will probably be set up.
Over 12,000 people signed a petition launched by Otorohanga College pupils Waimarama Anderson and Leah Bell requesting “a national day to commemorate those who lost their lives in the land wars, both Maori and colonial”.
Submissions must be in by April 21.
The aims of the grievance day petition as recorded on Parliament’s website were:
1. To raise awareness of the land wars and how they relate to local history for schools and communities.
2. Introduce these local histories into the New Zealand Curriculum as a course of study for all New Zealanders
3. To memorialise those who gave their lives on New Zealand soil with a statutory day of recognition.
The initiative is presented as the spontaneous idea sparked by visiting the battle sites at Orakau and Rangiaowhia. However, the commemoration idea appeared in 2013, on the 150th anniversary of the start of armed conflict in Waikato.
At that time, Tom Roa of Waikato-Tainui compared the Waikato conflict with the Battle of Gettysburg that was fought during the American Civil War.
The only similarities appear in the date of the two conflicts.
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in Pennsylvania from July 1 to 3, 1863, and government troops crossed the Mangatawhiri River on July 12 of that year.
The scale of casualties is vastly different – around 51,000 were killed at Gettysburg while 781 were killed over one year in Waikato.
There is no Gettysburg Day statutory holiday in the United States.
A “land wars day” would be a misnomer.
The sporadic armed conflict that accompanied the settlement of New Zealand from 1840 should be regarded as tribal rebellions instead of land wars. Therefore we should use the term “tribal rebellions day”.
The three aims of a tribal rebellions day, as detailed above, indicate a strategy to teach a tribal rebellion history to schools and local communities. This is a problem because there are two contradictory views of our history, and a tribal rebellions day would almost certainly teach the griever version of history.
Recorded history appears in national archives, Acts of Parliament, newspapers, letters, diaries, and histories, all written since 1840. Griever history appeared after 1985, when compensation claims back to 18 40 were allowed, in oral testimony by claimants.
Our recorded history says:
1. The Treaty of Waitangi was a simple agreement through which chiefs ceded sovereignty in return for the rights as British subjects, which included the right to possess property and sell if they wished.
2. In little over 100 years, New Zealand went from the Stone Age to the Space Age by incorporating the accumulation of thousands of years of Western tradition.
3. Most chiefly land owners joined in the new economy by selling land and working for the new government and settler employers with a number of chiefs setting up business enterprises.
4. When some tribes in the North, Taranaki, Waikato, and the East Coast rebelled, government forces suppressed these rebellions using military force. Land was confiscated as a consequence
The revised history says:
1. The Treaty of Waitangi was to allow a British governor to keep control of British settlers only. The treaty is difficult to understand and the only people qualified to interpret it are members of the Waitangi Tribunal.
2. Colonisation has ruined a noble and peaceful Maori culture. Maori people should be helped to speak Maori and restore Maori culture to remove all trappings of colonisation.
3. Chiefs lost all their land through dubious means and are entitled to have it all given back.
4. Colonisers decimated the Maori population with war and disease and Maori continue to languish in deprivation.
Our recorded history remained uncontroversial until the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1985 sparked a new process of spinning history into a tale of woe to justify compensation….
Continue reading Mike Butler's alarming NZCPR guest commentary here > www.nzcpr.com/tribal-rebellions-day-indoctrination-not-wanted/#more-17910
.
Make sure to send in a SUBMISSION by April 21, 2016, > tinyurl.com/go5gj6n (Scroll down the page for Submission button)
.
And please sign the NZCPR PETITION > www.nzcpr.com/land-war-petition/