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The great divide /

By: Publication details: Auckland : Howling at the Moon, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780987657367
  • 0987657364
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DU408 .W57 2012
Contents:
Prologue: Our story -- The first New Zealandes -- Me Tarzan, you James [Cook] -- How would you like your French fried? -- Wild south -- Ghost ships -- Reverends, guns and money -- Of pirates and people-eaters -- From [Edward Gibbon] Wakefield to Waitangi -- The Littlewood treaty -- The tino rangatiratanga question -- The land disputes -- Waitangi's fairytale godfathers -- Of church and state -- Fast forward -- Appendix: (Treaty of Waitangi: English version based on drafts from 3 February 1840 ; Māori version of the Treaty of Waitangi ; [Hugh] Kawharu translation [of the Māori text] ; The Littlewood Treaty version [4th of February 1840]).
"The story of New Zealand & its Treaty" -- Cover.-Includes bibliographical references.-Working from the original documents from 200 years ago, directly challenges the findings of books like Michael King's Penguin History of New Zealand or Claudia Orange's Treaty of Waitangi. For example, the author suggests that the Treaty of Waitangi as we currently debate it (1840 version) was actually rendered legally obsolete by an 1860 meeting between the Government and 200 Maori chiefs in Auckland, raising questions about the constitutional status of the Treaty as people currently understand it.
Summary: The Great Divide, working from the original documents from 200 years ago, directly challenges the findings of books like Michael King's Penguin History of New Zealand or Claudia Orange's Treaty of Waitangi, and in doing so offers a fresh new perspective on an issue affecting every single New Zealander. It asserts: New Zealand may have been settled by humans between two thousand years ago and 14,000 years ago; a comet likely caused mass extinctions; early humans left South Island cave paintings featuring what scientists described as "crocodiles and pythons"; that the Treaty of Waitangi was rendered legally obsolete by an 1860 meeting between the Government and 200 Maori chiefs in Auckland; that while many of the cash settlements are justifiable, the legal decisions justifying them are wrong in fact and law.
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"The story of New Zealand & its Treaty"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prologue: Our story -- The first New Zealandes -- Me Tarzan, you James [Cook] -- How would you like your French fried? -- Wild south -- Ghost ships -- Reverends, guns and money -- Of pirates and people-eaters -- From [Edward Gibbon] Wakefield to Waitangi -- The Littlewood treaty -- The tino rangatiratanga question -- The land disputes -- Waitangi's fairytale godfathers -- Of church and state -- Fast forward -- Appendix: (Treaty of Waitangi: English version based on drafts from 3 February 1840 ; Māori version of the Treaty of Waitangi ; [Hugh] Kawharu translation [of the Māori text] ; The Littlewood Treaty version [4th of February 1840]).

"The story of New Zealand & its Treaty" -- Cover.-Includes bibliographical references.-Working from the original documents from 200 years ago, directly challenges the findings of books like Michael King's Penguin History of New Zealand or Claudia Orange's Treaty of Waitangi. For example, the author suggests that the Treaty of Waitangi as we currently debate it (1840 version) was actually rendered legally obsolete by an 1860 meeting between the Government and 200 Maori chiefs in Auckland, raising questions about the constitutional status of the Treaty as people currently understand it.

The Great Divide, working from the original documents from 200 years ago, directly challenges the findings of books like Michael King's Penguin History of New Zealand or Claudia Orange's Treaty of Waitangi, and in doing so offers a fresh new perspective on an issue affecting every single New Zealander. It asserts: New Zealand may have been settled by humans between two thousand years ago and 14,000 years ago; a comet likely caused mass extinctions; early humans left South Island cave paintings featuring what scientists described as "crocodiles and pythons"; that the Treaty of Waitangi was rendered legally obsolete by an 1860 meeting between the Government and 200 Maori chiefs in Auckland; that while many of the cash settlements are justifiable, the legal decisions justifying them are wrong in fact and law.

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