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Otago Daily Times 31/10/19
HISTORY LESSONS
THE facts of New Zealand history are controversial; on one hand, there are documented records, and on the other, oral folklore.
The Government has dictated that teaching of New Zealand history in our schools is to become compulsory. Before that is imposed, it is essential a balanced and universally trusted Truth Commission be established to test the accuracy of disputed aspects of New Zealand history.
Without such a body to remove controversy, and recognising the present onesided, unbalanced and compulsory indoctrination of students in occupational tertiary courses, sometimes offensively presented, the process will be no different in our schools.
Further, without such testing, the process will be the same as China’s forced reeducation and indoctrination of its Muslim Uighur population; except, hopefully, New Zealand children and their families will not be detained in state internment facilities.
GRAEME BRIDGE, Wanganui
Northland Age 31/10/19
THE PARIHAKA PROBLEM
The problem with Parihaka, people only write selected information like a Wanganui news paper on Parihaka about the holocaust that happened there around 1831 while one third were slaughter and one third taken as slaves by the Waikato the remainder fled south where 900 travelled to the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori to near extinction for seven years. The Moriori were laid out along the beach over a quarter of a mile touching one another.
Parents and children; some of the women with stakes thrust into them were left to die in there misery. See “Moriori by Michael King Pg 64). Of the 1700 at the time of the invasion only 101 survived the years of slavery and cannibalism that followed (see 1862 New Zealand Gazette pp 29-32). The true holocaust by Taranaki!
With the arrival of settlers at New Plymouth in 1841 those Maori who fled Taranaki during intertribal wars returned to reclaim the land which under Maori custom, they had forfeited when conquered by the Waikato tribes.
In some cases the British paid for the same piece of land up to four times to satisfy conflicting Maori claims. Numerous settlers families were murdered and their houses and barns burned to the ground. In twelve months period 1860-61, 177 settlers farms were destroyed the mass slaughter and burning of the settlers livestock. The second “holocaust” at Taranaki!
In 1867 Te Whiti squatted on Crown land at Parihaka that had been confiscated as punishment for the rebellion. Te Whiti proved to be not only evasive but down right obstructive sending out parties of his people to plough up lands of the European setters. He also stole horses from settlers farms and pulled down stockyards. In this republic of peace, a thousand Maoris were huddled together in most unhygienic conditions. In Parlhaka there were two hundred cases of measles and twelve deaths (Auckland Star 22nd September 1875) Among things discovered in this Republic of peace was a stockpile of around 250 weapons, including breechloaders, Enfields, revolvers and a variety of ammunition. Nobody was injured during the alleged “holocaust at Parihaka except a boy whose foot was stepped on by a horse. There is a lot more truth that could be told about Parihaka but space would prohibit it been told.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
Dominion Post 28/10/19
APOLOGY TO MORIORI?
I see a resemblance between what happened in Parihaka and what happened in the Chatham Islands. According to history, in both cases a superior force conquered some local people.
In Parihaka it was colonials against Maori and in the Chathams it was Maori against Moriori.
The Moriori people, indigenous to the Chatham Islands, arrived around 1500 and developed a peacefUl way of life. In fact they had no weapons to defend themselves.
In 1835 members of the Ngati Mutunga and Nati Tama Maori iwi from the North Island of New Zealand invaded the islands and nearly exterminated the Morton, raping the women, cannibalising and enslaving the survivors.
In the Parihaka settlement the Crown has apologised and paid compensation. In the Chatham Island settlement the Crown has again apologised and paid compensation, which I cannot understand.
Surely the two iwi who invaded the islands should be made to apologise and pay compensation to make the whole settlement process, fair, transparent and unbiased.
BILL HAY, Hamilton
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HISTORY LESSONS
THE facts of New Zealand history are controversial; on one hand, there are documented records, and on the other, oral folklore.
The Government has dictated that teaching of New Zealand history in our schools is to become compulsory. Before that is imposed, it is essential a balanced and universally trusted Truth Commission be established to test the accuracy of disputed aspects of New Zealand history.
Without such a body to remove controversy, and recognising the present onesided, unbalanced and compulsory indoctrination of students in occupational tertiary courses, sometimes offensively presented, the process will be no different in our schools.
Further, without such testing, the process will be the same as China’s forced reeducation and indoctrination of its Muslim Uighur population; except, hopefully, New Zealand children and their families will not be detained in state internment facilities.
GRAEME BRIDGE, Wanganui
Northland Age 31/10/19
THE PARIHAKA PROBLEM
The problem with Parihaka, people only write selected information like a Wanganui news paper on Parihaka about the holocaust that happened there around 1831 while one third were slaughter and one third taken as slaves by the Waikato the remainder fled south where 900 travelled to the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori to near extinction for seven years. The Moriori were laid out along the beach over a quarter of a mile touching one another.
Parents and children; some of the women with stakes thrust into them were left to die in there misery. See “Moriori by Michael King Pg 64). Of the 1700 at the time of the invasion only 101 survived the years of slavery and cannibalism that followed (see 1862 New Zealand Gazette pp 29-32). The true holocaust by Taranaki!
With the arrival of settlers at New Plymouth in 1841 those Maori who fled Taranaki during intertribal wars returned to reclaim the land which under Maori custom, they had forfeited when conquered by the Waikato tribes.
In some cases the British paid for the same piece of land up to four times to satisfy conflicting Maori claims. Numerous settlers families were murdered and their houses and barns burned to the ground. In twelve months period 1860-61, 177 settlers farms were destroyed the mass slaughter and burning of the settlers livestock. The second “holocaust” at Taranaki!
In 1867 Te Whiti squatted on Crown land at Parihaka that had been confiscated as punishment for the rebellion. Te Whiti proved to be not only evasive but down right obstructive sending out parties of his people to plough up lands of the European setters. He also stole horses from settlers farms and pulled down stockyards. In this republic of peace, a thousand Maoris were huddled together in most unhygienic conditions. In Parlhaka there were two hundred cases of measles and twelve deaths (Auckland Star 22nd September 1875) Among things discovered in this Republic of peace was a stockpile of around 250 weapons, including breechloaders, Enfields, revolvers and a variety of ammunition. Nobody was injured during the alleged “holocaust at Parihaka except a boy whose foot was stepped on by a horse. There is a lot more truth that could be told about Parihaka but space would prohibit it been told.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
Dominion Post 28/10/19
APOLOGY TO MORIORI?
I see a resemblance between what happened in Parihaka and what happened in the Chatham Islands. According to history, in both cases a superior force conquered some local people.
In Parihaka it was colonials against Maori and in the Chathams it was Maori against Moriori.
The Moriori people, indigenous to the Chatham Islands, arrived around 1500 and developed a peacefUl way of life. In fact they had no weapons to defend themselves.
In 1835 members of the Ngati Mutunga and Nati Tama Maori iwi from the North Island of New Zealand invaded the islands and nearly exterminated the Morton, raping the women, cannibalising and enslaving the survivors.
In the Parihaka settlement the Crown has apologised and paid compensation. In the Chatham Island settlement the Crown has again apologised and paid compensation, which I cannot understand.
Surely the two iwi who invaded the islands should be made to apologise and pay compensation to make the whole settlement process, fair, transparent and unbiased.
BILL HAY, Hamilton
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