Waitangi

Within 5 years of signing the Treaty, the Pakeha had formed a militia designed to attack Maori villages and confiscate their land. This militia is the forefather group of the NZ Police and Army.

By 1860 many of the chiefs that signed the Treaty were so cheated by the colonials that they themselves began to reject the Treaty as a fraud. Case in point the 1859-60 Taranaki civil uprising and following armed attacks by colonial militias and then British soldiers, the Titokowaru uprising, where Pakeha mercenaries from all over the British Commonwealth steamed to Aotearoa gagging for a chance to come kill some natives.

And the rest is history.

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[Uriohau]

Treaty of Waitangi = Colonisation by Contract

[insanelylogical]

I prefer to think of it as "The Cheaty of Waitangi".

[Tupuna1850]

@bmonz08 In regards to the colonial Kawanatanga being workable well we all know it doesn't it's a system made for the elite, what I was actually trying to point out was what Patuone had seen that could have hopefully save the loss of our lands and the power it would have given us over the new arrivals.......?

[Tupuna1850]

@bmonz08 Dalvanius who lead the kaupapa for the return of the Mokomokai he was a member of the 1990 Kawanatanga Ko Huiarau, this movement has ceased to continue because of bad publicity by the media and a few bad egg's.....lol

[Tupuna1850]

@bmonz08 In the 1990's Ko Huiarau was revived by some who believed it was time to bring it out of recess? It started with a hisss and a roar and they did some very good mahi for many of our people, the NZ Government in fact tried to track down who was funding them so it could be halted eventually it shoot its self in the foot because of the mount of funding it received greed got the better of them which was very sad......

[Tupuna1850]

@bmonz08 So in summing things up the Kingitanga movement was not a separate kaupapa of a Maori Kawanatanga it was and inclusion of it under the leadership of King Potatau Te Wherowhero.........

[Tupuna1850]

@bmonz08 as for Potatau he was involved with a Kawanatanga which was called ko huiarau and they met every autumn at kohimarama in Auckland with the passing of many leaders including King Potatau the movement of Ko Huiarau was put in the hands of Sir Apirana who put Ko Huiarau into recess........

[Tupuna1850]

@bmonz08 Kia Ora whanau to answer your question of why so much division, it is because many of our leaders in the 1850's on wards still believed whanau hapu was a better option for our people which as we see with all our land losses it wasn't,

[goggloski]

i would also like to make the statement that the treaty isnt legaly correct and therefore void,it states and uses referances to the queen of england,which does not exist,the english crown was abolished in 1603,

[goggloski]

@Flash13FLy ,i think with the world in an economic crisis,and mounting debt and the rebuilding of 3 national disasters,i think its best for the COUNTRY that mr key remain in parliament,



[Flash13FLy]

@goggloski the tinorangatiratanga flag..MANA PARTY tick.