Te Tiriti O Waitangi

Hi!!!
Welcome back to my blog. Today we watched a video about The Treaty Of Waitangi. Here are some facts about the early settlers of Aotearoa.

#1 The population in the late 1830s was 70-80,000. It dropped because of War and introduced disease.
#2 The name of the main settlement was called Kororareka/Russell.
#3 The treaty was neglected for hundreds of years. Some things that happened to it are... It was chewed up by rats, almost lost in a fire, buried under a pile of rubbish, and almost lost in a flood.
#4 In 1883 to stop all the war and fighting and all of the bad stuff. The Maori set up "The United Tribes Of NZ"
#5 For many years the British didn't let France into Aotearoa because they saw France as a threat, because they were already having wars with France back in Europe.
#6 Edward Wakefield was sentenced to 3 years in prison for attempting to marry a 15-year-old and take their money. But while he was in jail he came up with a plan to buy all the land in Aotearoa and sell it for unfair prices. He called the company New Zealand Company.
#7 When the treaty was written there were only 500 Rangatira (Chiefs) that signed it.
#8 When the treaty was written the Maori thought they would get all of their land back but the British thought they would be given all of the Maori land.
#9 Hone Heke was a Maori Cheif, hi didn't like the idea of the treaty so he cut down 4 of the Union Jack flags and for one of them, he burned a village for a distraction and killed 13 people.
#10 Some of the methods that the Maori used to win the northern war were flax walls, log walls, gorilla warfare, and anti artillery bunkers which were bunkers that were covered by logs so the bombs couldn't get in.

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