Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 17, 2016 6:17:14 GMT 12
WHAT DID WE DO WRONG IN WAIRARAPA?
As in many other Treaty Settlements the benefactors never even signed the Treaty and there were no actual breaches of the Treaty by the Crown, none are clearly defined in the Deed of Settlement anyway.
After reading much of the history of the Wairarapa written by the Tribunal I can see the technique used by them is similar to the one they use in other regions.
The Tribunal tell a quick story of how waves of people they call Maori people colonise and kill each other, inter breed and totally mix their identities up, but they all remain Maori.
Funny that, they certainly weren’t called Maori people in the early 1800s when all this was happening. The Herbert William’s “A Dictionary of the Maori Language” tells us the word “Maori” wasn’t used to describe a group of people until about 1850.
They then tell a very long story of colonization by Pakeha in which benefits are downplayed. This “invasion” though is by white people and they make that the cause of depopulation, disease, loss of culture, loss of language and loss of land.
This story is offensive to me and so is the use of the word Pakeha.
They then state all of those things were caused by the Crown and that the Crown had a duty under the Treaty to protect Maori and so are a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi. They then recite the passages of documents to prove the breaches.
Guess what!
They don’t cite Te Tiriti o Waitangi though, because the Crown didn’t do anything that was in breach of the words in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
No… they cite passages from Lord Normanby’s instructions to Hobson or the Principles of the Treaty.
How can you breach a principle in 1850 that wasn’t written until 1989?
What has what Lord Normanby said, sitting in England in 1839, got to do with the New Zealand Government giving $32 million to a bunch of grievers in 2016?
In 1839 there was less than 1000 people living in Wairarapa.
Treaty Settlements should have to clearly show that there was a breach in a Treaty signed by the two parties.
A: Because there were no people called Maori people in 1840, Maori cannot be one of the parties.
B: Te Tiriti o Waitangi does not mention Maori people.
C: In reading the history in the Wairarapa ki Tararua Report I can find no breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
All that happened in the Wairarapa after the Treaty was signed was that people willingly sold their land much of it to the Crown in the 1850s.
(For the purposes of clarity I would be racist of I called these people just “people” I have to call these people, “Maori people”, because if we didn’t they would get no money at all).
Much of this land was stolen off the people that they killed in the 1820 – 30 Tribal Wars.
So the $32 million dollar windfall is not a Treaty Settlement it is a payment to the descendants of those who willingly sold their land to the Crown. In giving this payment the Crown (us) have taken responsibility for Maori people not looking after their culture.
The Government is us and so the loss of land, culture and language by Maori is our fault and Maori played little or no part in it.
By Andy Oakley (Author of 'Cannons Creek to Waitangi')
The article Andy is relating to here > www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/303619/iwi-settlement-covers-second-largest-treaty-area
As in many other Treaty Settlements the benefactors never even signed the Treaty and there were no actual breaches of the Treaty by the Crown, none are clearly defined in the Deed of Settlement anyway.
After reading much of the history of the Wairarapa written by the Tribunal I can see the technique used by them is similar to the one they use in other regions.
The Tribunal tell a quick story of how waves of people they call Maori people colonise and kill each other, inter breed and totally mix their identities up, but they all remain Maori.
Funny that, they certainly weren’t called Maori people in the early 1800s when all this was happening. The Herbert William’s “A Dictionary of the Maori Language” tells us the word “Maori” wasn’t used to describe a group of people until about 1850.
They then tell a very long story of colonization by Pakeha in which benefits are downplayed. This “invasion” though is by white people and they make that the cause of depopulation, disease, loss of culture, loss of language and loss of land.
This story is offensive to me and so is the use of the word Pakeha.
They then state all of those things were caused by the Crown and that the Crown had a duty under the Treaty to protect Maori and so are a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi. They then recite the passages of documents to prove the breaches.
Guess what!
They don’t cite Te Tiriti o Waitangi though, because the Crown didn’t do anything that was in breach of the words in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
No… they cite passages from Lord Normanby’s instructions to Hobson or the Principles of the Treaty.
How can you breach a principle in 1850 that wasn’t written until 1989?
What has what Lord Normanby said, sitting in England in 1839, got to do with the New Zealand Government giving $32 million to a bunch of grievers in 2016?
In 1839 there was less than 1000 people living in Wairarapa.
Treaty Settlements should have to clearly show that there was a breach in a Treaty signed by the two parties.
A: Because there were no people called Maori people in 1840, Maori cannot be one of the parties.
B: Te Tiriti o Waitangi does not mention Maori people.
C: In reading the history in the Wairarapa ki Tararua Report I can find no breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
All that happened in the Wairarapa after the Treaty was signed was that people willingly sold their land much of it to the Crown in the 1850s.
(For the purposes of clarity I would be racist of I called these people just “people” I have to call these people, “Maori people”, because if we didn’t they would get no money at all).
Much of this land was stolen off the people that they killed in the 1820 – 30 Tribal Wars.
So the $32 million dollar windfall is not a Treaty Settlement it is a payment to the descendants of those who willingly sold their land to the Crown. In giving this payment the Crown (us) have taken responsibility for Maori people not looking after their culture.
The Government is us and so the loss of land, culture and language by Maori is our fault and Maori played little or no part in it.
By Andy Oakley (Author of 'Cannons Creek to Waitangi')
The article Andy is relating to here > www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/303619/iwi-settlement-covers-second-largest-treaty-area