Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 30, 2016 16:50:57 GMT 12
Kapiti News 27/4/16
TREATY TALK
Karen Butterworth ended her letter (April 20) with “these columns are not the proper place” to discuss the Treaty. I sense she knew the truth was about to come out. I am sure that many things in our exchange were news to many people, most Karen and I agreed on.
Such as: Tuhoe rising up against the Crowns sovereignty endangering the lives of peaceful New Zealanders of any race. In the Crowns eyes despite Tuhoe not signing the Treaty, under the law they had repudiated any entitlement it may have given them. Yet in modern times Tuhoe are about to be handed nearly $170 million dollars along with an apology from the government that quelled their murderous ways back in the 1860s. An apology for having the audacity to protect the people and sovereignty of New Zealand.
We also agree that New Zealand’s foremost expert in the Treaty, Dame Claudia Orange did not bother to mention at all in her up dated book ‘The Treaty of Waitangi’ the most significant find of the century with regards to the Treaty, a signed draft of the Treaty in English, written in the handwriting of James Busby and signed by Governor William Hobson was discovered in 1989 and is stored in Archives New Zealand. It can’t be a back translation as it is dated two days before the Treaty was written in Maori. Not even Karen can figure out why she did not mention this in any of her books.
Karen also agrees that there were no people known as ‘Maori people’ in New Zealand up until about 1850, a decade after the Treaty. And therefore there is no mention of ‘Maori people’ in the Treaty at all. This will be news to many, in fact most will not believe it. However, it is true, even in the latest September 15, 2007, 7th Edition of “A Dictionary of the Maori Language” available on Amazon, it states it very clearly.
This question then must be asked: If Maori did not exist before 1850, why do we have an Act in Parliament today that allows for only people of the ’Maori Race’ to make claims to the Waitangi Tribunal that rely on breaches of a Treaty that does not mention them? And that question is directly linked to the reason Dame Claudia Orange did not mention the newly discovered English draft. Because the draft makes it clear the Treaty is not with Maori but with all the people of New Zealand. New Zealanders have been seriously misled for many decades regarding our history and the treaty, many like Karen do not wish to discuss it, or they will label you a racist for raising it.
ANDY OAKLEY
Raumati Beach
TREATY TALK
Karen Butterworth ended her letter (April 20) with “these columns are not the proper place” to discuss the Treaty. I sense she knew the truth was about to come out. I am sure that many things in our exchange were news to many people, most Karen and I agreed on.
Such as: Tuhoe rising up against the Crowns sovereignty endangering the lives of peaceful New Zealanders of any race. In the Crowns eyes despite Tuhoe not signing the Treaty, under the law they had repudiated any entitlement it may have given them. Yet in modern times Tuhoe are about to be handed nearly $170 million dollars along with an apology from the government that quelled their murderous ways back in the 1860s. An apology for having the audacity to protect the people and sovereignty of New Zealand.
We also agree that New Zealand’s foremost expert in the Treaty, Dame Claudia Orange did not bother to mention at all in her up dated book ‘The Treaty of Waitangi’ the most significant find of the century with regards to the Treaty, a signed draft of the Treaty in English, written in the handwriting of James Busby and signed by Governor William Hobson was discovered in 1989 and is stored in Archives New Zealand. It can’t be a back translation as it is dated two days before the Treaty was written in Maori. Not even Karen can figure out why she did not mention this in any of her books.
Karen also agrees that there were no people known as ‘Maori people’ in New Zealand up until about 1850, a decade after the Treaty. And therefore there is no mention of ‘Maori people’ in the Treaty at all. This will be news to many, in fact most will not believe it. However, it is true, even in the latest September 15, 2007, 7th Edition of “A Dictionary of the Maori Language” available on Amazon, it states it very clearly.
This question then must be asked: If Maori did not exist before 1850, why do we have an Act in Parliament today that allows for only people of the ’Maori Race’ to make claims to the Waitangi Tribunal that rely on breaches of a Treaty that does not mention them? And that question is directly linked to the reason Dame Claudia Orange did not mention the newly discovered English draft. Because the draft makes it clear the Treaty is not with Maori but with all the people of New Zealand. New Zealanders have been seriously misled for many decades regarding our history and the treaty, many like Karen do not wish to discuss it, or they will label you a racist for raising it.
ANDY OAKLEY
Raumati Beach