Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 17, 2019 17:24:43 GMT 12
CAPTAIN COOK REPLICA BANNED FROM DOCKING IN MANGONUI DURING COMMEMORATION
The far North iwi Ngāti Kahu has banned a replica of Captain Cook's ship the Endeavour from docking in Mangonui as part of a national commemoration marking 250 years since Cook's arrival in Aotearoa.
Ngāti Kahu chief executive, Anahera Herbert-Graves, said the Ministry of Culture and Heritage did not consult with the iwi before including the Mangonui area in the list of destinations for the voyage.
The three hapū were very strong in their opposition, they said no-way jose. I was instructed to let the Ministry know, which I did."
The Ministry of Culture and Heritage has since removed Mangonui from the programme.
Ms Herbert-Graves said Captain Cook never actually landed in the Ngāti Kahu rohe.
"Cook never came into our rohe, he sailed by, and apparently cast his eye to the port and said, 'oh, that's Doubtless Bay.' It's a fiction for him to 're-visit' us because he never came.
"He was a barbarian. Wherever he went, like most people of the time of imperial expansion, there were murders, there were abductions, there were rapes, and just a lot of bad outcomes for the indigenous people......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/398912/captain-cook-replica-banned-from-docking-in-mangonui-during-commemoration
The far North iwi Ngāti Kahu has banned a replica of Captain Cook's ship the Endeavour from docking in Mangonui as part of a national commemoration marking 250 years since Cook's arrival in Aotearoa.
Ngāti Kahu chief executive, Anahera Herbert-Graves, said the Ministry of Culture and Heritage did not consult with the iwi before including the Mangonui area in the list of destinations for the voyage.
The three hapū were very strong in their opposition, they said no-way jose. I was instructed to let the Ministry know, which I did."
The Ministry of Culture and Heritage has since removed Mangonui from the programme.
Ms Herbert-Graves said Captain Cook never actually landed in the Ngāti Kahu rohe.
"Cook never came into our rohe, he sailed by, and apparently cast his eye to the port and said, 'oh, that's Doubtless Bay.' It's a fiction for him to 're-visit' us because he never came.
"He was a barbarian. Wherever he went, like most people of the time of imperial expansion, there were murders, there were abductions, there were rapes, and just a lot of bad outcomes for the indigenous people......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/398912/captain-cook-replica-banned-from-docking-in-mangonui-during-commemoration