Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 28, 2019 11:02:47 GMT 12
'TIME TO UNDERSTAND OUR HISTORY' AS NEW ZEALAND WARS REMEMBERED IN TARANAKI
Dr Ruakere Hond, a key member of the working party co-ordinating the event, said the wars were a critical part of Taranaki's history.
"For a long time it has been made invisible. A lot of people simply say there were some wars, the land became ours, let's move on and forget about it," he explained.
"But in actual fact it's incredibly complex, in the role of those wars in how Maori became disenfranchised, became impoverished really in this region through the loss of an economic base."
Dr Hond added that we all needed to have the same understanding of our history, in order to stop talking past one another.
The New Zealand Wars, or land wars, were battles between the Crown and some tribes which took place from the 1840s to the 1870s.
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Dr Ruakere Hond, a key member of the working party co-ordinating the event, said the wars were a critical part of Taranaki's history.
"For a long time it has been made invisible. A lot of people simply say there were some wars, the land became ours, let's move on and forget about it," he explained.
"But in actual fact it's incredibly complex, in the role of those wars in how Maori became disenfranchised, became impoverished really in this region through the loss of an economic base."
Dr Hond added that we all needed to have the same understanding of our history, in order to stop talking past one another.
The New Zealand Wars, or land wars, were battles between the Crown and some tribes which took place from the 1840s to the 1870s.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12280139