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Showing posts with label Treaty versions & translations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Treaty versions & translations. Show all posts

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Dr Michael Bassett: Academic arrogance


In Newsroom on 6 March Dame Anne Salmond made a fool of herself when she lectured Richard Prebble about the two versions of the Treaty of Waitangi. She grandly informed him that Maori signed the version written in Maori, and proceeded to give us her take on what those words meant when translated into English.