Geoff Parker: Ngāi Tahu History Isn’t What 'The Press' Claims

The Press’s latest Ngāi Tahu puff piece — complete with misty-eyed claims about “Crumbs from the white man’s table” — is yet another exercise in historical distortion masquerading as journalism. It parrots the modern Treaty-industry script while ignoring the most basic historical facts, many of which sit openly in Crown archives. Either the reporter didn’t look, or didn’t want to.