Roger Childs: More incorrect Parihaka history in this Kapiti College theatre piece?

This production — article — played at the Performing Arts Centre in Raumati a few years back. I didn’t go, but I gather it was a very one-sided view of what happened at Parihaka. Nicola Easthope is a good lady but she has been indoctrinated by Paora Trim who is Head of Maori at Kapiti College. I guess people have to make up their own minds.

Mike Butler: Busting the Parihaka myth

The story of the so-called Parihaka “invasion” on November 5, 1881, on the coastal side of Mount Egmont-Taranaki, is all about colonial power and injustice was imposed on Maori peacefully resisting the confiscation of their land, right? Actually, wrong.

A new book by publisher John McLean goes beyond the self-serving oral histories that the Waitangi Tribunal relies on to tell the story as written by people who saw what happened in Taranaki in the late 19th century.

Mike Butler: Nursing the Parihaka grudge

The Catholic Church this year used a song by Tim Finn and Herbs to teach forgiveness and reconciliation in its schools to mark November 5 as Parihaka day. But church leaders do not see that Parihaka is rooted in staunch opposition to white settlement.

November 5, 1881, was the day that government troops evicted 1600 people from a village built on confiscated land between Mount Taranaki and the Tasman Sea.