The letter concerning 'Wharekaure” (The Chathams) re D. Holm 2 July 2010.
My whakapapa (genealogy) covers both Whareakure (The Chathams) and Te Rohepotae (King Country) and I ain't no Moriori” just because smart alecks like D Holm wants me believe so.
Before the pakeha invited themselves to this country no such word as Moriori ever existed.
The word Moriori was made up by crooked pakeha historians in order to frame Maoridom with wholesale genocide on an invisible race of people that did not exist.
As vulnerable young children we had this psychological poison rammed down our throats at school. It was crap – designed to bastardise and kill the spirit of Maoridom so as to justify the theft on this most beautiful land of Aotearoa from its indigenous Maori people.
It would be wise if D Holms and those of this calibre kept their goobledegook to themselves because it only creates more hatred between races.
Sam Nikora, Bowentown.