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Refer to: The New Zealand Wars A Resource for Social Studies Teachers Tape
1: Episode 1 "The War That Britain Lost - The Northern War"; Tape 1: Episode
2: "Kings and Empires" (especially Wairau 17 June 1843 and Waitara).
And/or:
What Happened After the
Treaty
(He Aha Nga Ahuatanga I Pa Mai I Muri I Te Hainatanga I Te Tiriti)?
Second Thoughts?
Hone Heke soon came to see his signing of The Treaty as a mistake.
Why?
(New Zealand Wars, Tape 1: Episode 1: 0.12.30 onwards.)
What did he do about
it?
Firmly convinced?
Missionary and treaty translator,
Henry Williams, was quite clear, in a
letter to Bishop Selwyn
in 1847 about the importance of the signing of Te Tiriti.
Students summarise Williams' letter in no more than 33 words.
Change of mind?
The Crown soon came to regard Treaty as something to be disregarded. The pressure
from settlers for more and more land to be bought from Maori lead to conflicts
such as the Incident (New Zealand Wars Tape 1: Episode 2: 0.54.00).
Either: Complete Activities 1 and 2 from the Land and Conflict unit from the
Resource for Social Studies Teachers booklet;
And/or: provide students with access (online or print-out) of the information
on the Wairau
Incident from this website (scroll down the page to: 1843 The Wairau
Incident. In groups of 4-6, students prepare a brief role play of the incident,
culminating in a freeze frame or tableau, to present to the class.
Almost immediately after The Treaty was signed it was ignored.
Violations of the Treaty of Waitangi
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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