Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 22, 2019 10:21:11 GMT 12
CAPTAIN COOK AND MY OWN VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
Shock, horror! After hundreds of years of colonising the world, the British have officially apologised for something. Irish famine? Partition of India? The 1920s Middle East carve-up which I hear has led to the odd problem today? None of the above.
The British high commissioner to New Zealand, Laura Clarke, recently went to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, also known as Gisborne, and expressed "regret" for Captain Cook's men killing nine Māori when he visited in 1769.
The apology was nothing to do with the New Zealand Government. The relatives of the Māori involved approved, and many of us thought it a nice, if minor, gesture. However, some people were enraged, and felt that Cook's reputation was being besmirched.
Don Brash, a self-appointed authority on our history, reckoned only four or five Māori were killed, and called on Clarke to resign. Dame Anne Salmond, a real authority on our history, agreed with local iwi historians who believed the number was nine. But does the number really matter, Don?.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/116747580/captain-cook-and-my-own-voyage-of-discovery
Shock, horror! After hundreds of years of colonising the world, the British have officially apologised for something. Irish famine? Partition of India? The 1920s Middle East carve-up which I hear has led to the odd problem today? None of the above.
The British high commissioner to New Zealand, Laura Clarke, recently went to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, also known as Gisborne, and expressed "regret" for Captain Cook's men killing nine Māori when he visited in 1769.
The apology was nothing to do with the New Zealand Government. The relatives of the Māori involved approved, and many of us thought it a nice, if minor, gesture. However, some people were enraged, and felt that Cook's reputation was being besmirched.
Don Brash, a self-appointed authority on our history, reckoned only four or five Māori were killed, and called on Clarke to resign. Dame Anne Salmond, a real authority on our history, agreed with local iwi historians who believed the number was nine. But does the number really matter, Don?.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/116747580/captain-cook-and-my-own-voyage-of-discovery