Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Te Tiriti O Waitangi
By Jaren

Last Week on week 7 during hurumanu I and my class were watching Te Tiriti O Waitangi. As we were watching we took notes
of questions that our teacher gave us.

Here is one of the answers/facts I wrote from the video:

Maori's population of Aotearoa during the late 1830s were about 70 thousand to 80... 

The population started to drop down because of disease and war, the rangatira and missionaries weren't happy with the town because of people selling alcohol. 

When French people arrived in New Zealand/Aotearoa, the British people saw them as a threat because France wanted to colonise the island, during 1833 the missionaries came up with a plan to resolve the situation called the United Tribe of New Zealand.

During 1926 a 30-year-old named Edward Gibbon was in jail for three years, Edward Gibbon came up with a plan after he was out of prison he planned to create/set up a New Zealand company.

British started to send Hobson to New Zealand to set up the Treaty of Waitangi because they were worried that Hobson would take advantage over New Zealand, there were about five hundred Moari leaders who signed the treaty, the problem of the way the treaty was written was differently written in the English version.

After the treaty was signed, the Maori had a feeling that British will take control of the land, one Moari named Hone Heke showed the British people his frustration by cutting their flag three times and burning their town, during the Northern War Maori was able to beat British by using musket, pits, wood fences, log and flax screens.