A call has been made for the land wars, that awful blot on our history, to be taught in schools, but what has been done for atonement should be told also.
Included too in the saga could be tales of a war party razing a pa and carrying off the survivors as slaves.
Maoris ended these skirmishes themselves. They engaged with Christianity, and they did so in spite of human errors in practice. Just as the laws of modern New Zealand have evolved from its ethics.
Let us acknowledge the whole story of those bygone times.
M Whitwell, Judea.
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