In yet another outburst of half-truth and misinformation, R Paterson is once again wrong on a number of points. His letter ‘Mission Cemetery never confiscated' (The Weekend Sun, June 6): It is true a form of purchase took place, however these exchanges have been roundly condemned by the United Nations as highly exploitive of indigenous people worldwide.
The Church Missionary Society had good intentions, but were usurped by the Crown and military.
The Queen apologised for the British insurgency, yet R Paterson attempts to perpetuate the myth, that Maori were responsible.
They seem to scoff at the return of a cemetery, emphasising the inability of some to come to terms with the truth, and attempting to widen the cultural gap.
Robin Bell, Omanawa.
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Confiscation half-truths
Posted on 08-07-2014 09:25 | By crazyhorse
Fuel "billion" dollar tribes "grievance industry. Did confiscation cause the armed conflict in the Waikato, as the Waikato-Tainui annual report 2014 claims, or was it the other way around? History shows that the Waikato-Tainui version is wrong because government troops entered the Waikato region on July 12, 1863, while a proclamation confiscating land was issued in December 1864, after the fighting was over. Waikato-Tainui were not hapless victims of the land-hungry wicked white colonizer. The Waikato armed conflict had its roots in the 1860 Taranaki war and Waikato fighters were involved in Taranaki fighting from 1860. Waikato warriors drove resident magistrate John Gorst and his family out of the Waikato area on April 18, 1863. Waikato chiefs Taati Te Waru and Porokuru Titipa" wrote to tribes in the southern part of the North Island called for a general war. READ ABOUT BELL'S "HALF TRUTHS. http://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/mike-butler-waikato-tainuis-slanted.html
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