So we have an article that mixes up half-truths with outright lies and contains countless lies by omission-the things not mentioned (deliberately surely) that perpetuate even more lies.
That one sentence for example. Ngai Tahu had sold some 170 land packages on Banks Peninsula even before the Treaty was signed in 1840. These were registered in New South Wales. Under the terms of the Treaty that land was returned and the sales generally were declared null and void – I wonder how much of the monies paid was returned?
Next of course is the clear implication that nothing whatever had been done to redress any wrongs until 1997 – clearly and provably a lie. Attempts were made in the 1880’s and in the 1920’s the whole situation in the country was examined under the Sim commission. In 1946 a ‘ full and final’ settlement was made led by the Ngai Tahu leader Sir Eruera Tihema Te Aika Tirikatene who was a cabinet minister in the wartime Labour government. A lump sum was paid as well as a sum of 10,000 pounds which was to be paid each and every year for 30 years. This was later amended to ‘in perpetuity’. So they got that amount every year.
Attempts were made in the 1960’s by then tribal leader Frank Winter to make another claim but the government of the day declined to make an offer. By 1995 a new leader Stephen O’Reagan was claiming that the tribe had no money at all and that they lacked even enough to provide him with money for petrol so that he could speak to tribal members on the West Coast. What happened to the money?
The other huge omission from this article is the failure to mention the raids of Te Rauparaha prior to 1840. This matters because the result was that by 1840 the Maori population of the entire South Island was tiny and northern part was still disputed by Ngai Toa from Te Rauparaha’s raids.
This makes the claim that the sale of most of Banks Peninsula for 47 cents an acre ( no roads, no bridges no wharves- no infrastructure of any kind) and the South Island for a claimed 2 cents an acre incredibly suspect- THIS TRIBE – the palest and least Maori in the country- The LARGEST in area and is currently worth : - $1 .8 BILLION – all of which has come from the state!
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Next of course is the clear implication that nothing whatever had been done to redress any wrongs until 1997 – clearly and provably a lie. Attempts were made in the 1880’s and in the 1920’s the whole situation in the country was examined under the Sim commission. In 1946 a ‘ full and final’ settlement was made led by the Ngai Tahu leader Sir Eruera Tihema Te Aika Tirikatene who was a cabinet minister in the wartime Labour government. A lump sum was paid as well as a sum of 10,000 pounds which was to be paid each and every year for 30 years. This was later amended to ‘in perpetuity’. So they got that amount every year.
Attempts were made in the 1960’s by then tribal leader Frank Winter to make another claim but the government of the day declined to make an offer. By 1995 a new leader Stephen O’Reagan was claiming that the tribe had no money at all and that they lacked even enough to provide him with money for petrol so that he could speak to tribal members on the West Coast. What happened to the money?
The other huge omission from this article is the failure to mention the raids of Te Rauparaha prior to 1840. This matters because the result was that by 1840 the Maori population of the entire South Island was tiny and northern part was still disputed by Ngai Toa from Te Rauparaha’s raids.
This makes the claim that the sale of most of Banks Peninsula for 47 cents an acre ( no roads, no bridges no wharves- no infrastructure of any kind) and the South Island for a claimed 2 cents an acre incredibly suspect- THIS TRIBE – the palest and least Maori in the country- The LARGEST in area and is currently worth : - $1 .8 BILLION – all of which has come from the state!
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