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Only the beginning of maori rule - by Unknown

Prior to European settlement, Maori squatted on land and resources until a stronger tribe invaded, killed and ate them. If their own tribe was stronger they invaded, killed and ate their neighbours. Thus Maori existed in a cycle of genocidal warfare amongst themselves and effectively owned nothing. Land and resources belonged fleetingly to whoever had the ability to seize or defend it successfully at a particular point in time.

Denis Hall: Europeans didn't colonise Maori - the stuff did. Colonisation!

This happened inside my head this morning. It's a bit like brain weather I suppose - and I have seen some of it before - but this morning it moved in like a weather front - and I was in a receptive mood. I don’t expect some of those wooly headed politically correct folk to understand any of this - but the grown-ups in the population will already know it - but they just might not have voiced it.

It will however be recognizable as plain old common sense.

Remember - read it for the read of it - not the speed of it.

I think - Maori were NOT colonised by the British people - or the French people - or the Dutch people.

They were colonised first of all by the Blanket - an amazing thing that they could carry with them - that was able to keep them warm and comfortable - and they quickly took to wearing them as a way to keep warm - and to keep it safe - and also to display a valued acquisition.