Te Tiriti O Waitangi

Hello fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post today's blog post is about the treaty of waitangi. For the last period we had of Who are we?, we were watching a Aotearoa history show about the Treaty Of Waitangi. Here is the information I gathered.

In the late 1830's the Māori population was between 100,000 - 70,000 people. There was a drop in population because of war and sickness'. One of these wars were horrible and impacted a lot of peoples lives. This is how it all began.

The missionaries were unhappy because the people in the town were all drinking and there was a lot of  prostitution. There was also a lot of unfair trading happening.

Edward Wakefield went to jail for trying to marry a underage women he was sentenced for three years in prison. Once he got out of prison he set up a company. He made this company so he could buy cheap land of the Māori.  There was a argument.

There was settlement made to stop fighting this happened in the bay of islands. This fighting was because the British saw France as a threat this was because the French wanted to colonize New Zealand for them selves but the British didn't like that they wanted to do that. So there was fighting.

Before the Treaty begun there was a lot of disagreement between the Māori and British. The British settled into a part of New Zealand and put there flag there but one of the Māori chiefs was not happy and kept cutting down the British flag one day he got so annoyed that he lit the British village on fire. Then began the war.

The Māori had a very good tactic of fighting in the war. They would build underground bunkers and hide there. There would be other Māori people hiding behind the wooden polls that led to the village.
The British wouldn't see anyone there and go to enter the village and then the defenders(people that were hidden behind the polls) would jump out and shoot them.

The British ended up bringing someone called William Hobson into New Zealand to help end some of the fighting and to make everything fair.

Then begun the Treaty Of Waitangi. you may know the two written Treaty's were different there was a chunk that was written differently meaning the Māori and the British had different understandings of the treaty.

In the end the British ended up breaking promises and they unfairly took the land. People still till this day disagree with what they did.

I hope you learnt something from this blog post if you have any questions leave a comment on the post.