How Four Murders Made New Zealand
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Wiremu Kīngi Maketū went on a killing spree, and New Zealand was born.
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Sources
(† = page numbers unavailable)
A. Paul Moon, “Maketū’s Execution and the Extension of British Sovereignty in New Zealand,” in Te Kaharoa, vol. 6 (2013).
B. †Michael King, The Penguin History of New Zealand (Penguin Books: New York City, 2003).
C. †Danny Keenan, Wars Without End | Nga Pakanga Whenua O Mua: New Zealand’s Land Wars-A Maori Perspective (Penguin, 2021).
D. “Plain facts relative to the late war in the northern district of New Zealand,” (Philip Kunst, Auckland, 1847).
E. †Vincent O’Malley, The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga O Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books, 2019).
F. R v Maketū, 1842.
G. †James Cowan, The New Zealand Wars, 1923, nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/schol....
Citations
1: A, p.37, 40-41
2: A, p.40
3: A, p.40-41
4: A, p.42
5: A, p.44
6: B, ch.11
7: Ibid.
8: C, ch.1
9: D, p.9
10: E, ch.2
11: A, p.43
12: A, p.44
13: A, p.46
14: F
15: A, p.46-47
16: G, ch.3
17: Ibid.
18: Ibid.
19: Ibid.
20: Ibid.
21: Ibid.
22: Ibid.
23: G, ch.4
24: G, ch.5
25: G, ch.6
26: G, ch.7
27: G, ch.8
28: G, ch.9
29: Ibid.
30: Ibid.
31: Ibid.
32: B, ch.12
33: E, ch.1
34: E, ch.5
35: B, ch.21, 28
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00:00 INTRO
01:45 I - AVOIDANCE
06:39 II - CONFRONTATION
11:53 III - TO ARMS
17:23 IV - LAST CHANCE
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RIP Old Zealand
Nah, Old Zeeland is still there for now, although the sea has been trying to make it not for a few centuries
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British Parliament: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
Prey the Maori NEVER come after YOU!!
Isn't that basically the Sykes-Picot agreement?
@@frenzalrhomb6919and do what? They lost
Then You hear that mf from black rock saying africa should be colonized by the US. We don't trust western countries
@quack9694 the Brits cucked though
as a student in NZ, i knew hardly anything to do with any of this. they dont teach us the important stuff, just that there was a “mistranslation that may or may not have been deliberate” and personally im fed up with only being taught the bare minimum of our own country’s history
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In the 80's at school we learnt The Treaty was a good thing and everyone was happy to live as one because white people gave guns and blankets to struggling people in exchange for some land. The executions, land confiscation and other awful stuff was not mentioned at all. I know several people my age that grew up in NZ still don't know anymore than that. It's why it's so easy for the politicians to argue for "equal rights", because they can white wash everything just like was done at school and some people genuinely don't know better. Pretty awful most New Zealanders don't know the half of the awful history of our country. So sad 😢 I can only hope children now are learning a more impartial view and are more empathetic to the injustices done in the past.
IF THEY TEACH REAL NZ HISTORY THEY WOULD HAVE TO ADMIT THE BAD THINGS THEY DID THEY WOULD ALSO HAVE TO ADMIT TO BEING DEFEATED AND FORCED TO SIGN A TREATY. MAORI SIGNED WITH THE BRITISH CROWN NOT WITH THE NZ PEOPLE OR GOVERNMENT THEY CAME BECAUSE MAORI WANTED THE BRITISH TO CONTROL THEIR PEOPLE. ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT KEEP THE GOVT IN CHECK ARE FROM MAORI AND THEIR SUPPORTERS
@@clairebarry8030my youngest sibling is learning that New Zealand only got the treaty because of fear that the French would claim us first, by that knowledge how I learned about the treaty in the mid 90s it’s like New Zealand was a useful military tactic.
@@samuellatu3123 that's so weird it's still not all the info
as someone of ngāpuhi and someone who grew up in tai tokerau where all these events took place and their effects are still felt today, i appreciate a light being shined on the flagstaff war - it's a super important chapter in the history of ngāpuhi and tino rangatiratanga that often gets forgotten - but there's some pretty glaring omissions and mistakes in this video that need addressing:
Te Tiriti and The Treaty of Waitangi:
This is a debate that's still very hot in NZ politics today, so I'll give the cliff notes here and try not to inject my own opinion. There are two "versions" of Te Tiriti - the English document and the Reo Māori document. The reo Māori document promised "-ki ngā tāngata katoa o Nu Tirani te tino rangatiratanga o ō rātou whenua, ō rātou kainga me o rātou taonga katoa", which roughly translates as promising "to all the people of Nu Tirani (New Zealand, specifically Māori as outlined by He Whakaputanga) tino rangatiratanga (highest authority or soverignty) of their lands, their homes, and all their taonga (important treasures such as language, cultural practice, religions, etc.), and to the Queen of England "te Kawanatanga katoa o ō rātou whenua"; "All governership of [the rangatira's] lands". The english document, however, states "The Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand [...] cede to Her Majesty the Queen of England absolutely and without reservation all the rights and powers of Sovereignty".
I won't get further into the nitty gritty of this - whether the treaty was deliberately mistranslated or not, whether the rangatira who signed it were aware of the British interpretation, etc. - it's a complex issue that's currently in the spotlight of NZ politics, but it's important to note this difference, and also important to note that Te Tiriti - the reo Māori document - was the one most rangatira Māori signed; only 39 rangatira of about 500 signatories put their signature to the english document.
Maketū's execution being the cause of the war:
While it's a good framing device for a story, reducing the causes of the flagstaff war purely to Maketū's execution by the British is a bit reductive. Whilst important to Māori as a sign that they no longer held the power to practice tīkanga and that their mana was waning, it's more the straw that broke the camel's back than the main cause of war. Issues between the crown and Māori existed long before this incident - the capital being moved from Kororāreka and the Wairau affray are good examples of this. Unlawful selling of land was a major factor in strained Crown-Māori relationships - one that Te Tiriti was said to address, but ultimately would be exacerbated in the English version.
Te Ruki Kawiti:
While he gets only one mention in this video, Kawiti - a rangatira of Ngāpuhi - is just as important to the story of the flagstaff war as Hone Heke. One of the original dissenters of Te Tiriti at Waitangi - partly due to his dislike for Heke and partly due to fears of British deception due to his own land being unlawfully taken from him by a Paihia missionary - was one of the main engineers behind the modernisation of the pā (also known as "gunfighter pā") that would allow the anti-crown Māori to come out of the flagstaff war without a single military loss against the British. Kāwiti was a seasoned commander from the musket wars, and he'd seen firsthand the benefits and drawbacks of modernised warfare during his campaigns. There are some historians who even attribute Kawiti's design to contributing to the invention of trench warfare - veterans and military historians allegedly drew inspiration from the designs of Kawiti's pā in the latter half of the 19th century into the 20th century.
The purpose of Ruapekapeka:
Though I'm not sure if this is the video's intention, it feels like Ruapekapeka is wrongly implied as having strategic importance to anti-crown Māori.This isn't really true; Ruapekapeka was a purely military construction, aimed to bait Governor Grey into sending troops into unfavourable siege conditions to damage British morale and numbers, to then be abandoned when it had served its purpose. This was part of the design of the pā at Ōhaeawai, and there's even a short song written by British troops about this sort of strategy:
"Sing a song of sixpence a tale about the war,
Four and twenty n****rs cooped up in a pā,
When the pā was opened not a n****r there was seen,
Is not that a jolly tale to tell before the Queen?"
Kūpapa:
Though Kūpapa has now become a derogatory term within Te Ao Māori, Kūpapa - crown-allied Māori - played an important part in the flagstaff war as
military advisors and soliders. Though their advice was often ignored, such as Governor Fitzroy insisting on charging the pā at Ōhaeawai against the warnings of Tāmiti Wāka Nene, their military role was important in the more forgotten about battles in the war, such as the battle of Te Ahuahu (which I'll touch on later). This also ties in to an idea that isn't in this video: Māori are not one whole unit, and neither is Ngāpuhi (and neither is any group of people, really). Tāmiti Wāka Nene joined forces with the British crown as he saw anti-crown Māori's rejection of British rule as an insult to his mana - he was a staunch advocate for the signing of Te Tiriti, and his considerable mana was a factor in getting a lot of rangatira to sign. The rejection of British governance was seen as an insult to this, and so he took up arms.
Te Ahuahu:
Due to the battle at Te Ahuahu being a purely Ngāpuhi vs. Ngāpuhi conflict, there's not a lot of written history about it, and I urge those watching to seek out info about it if they're interested, but it's a very important battle in the Flagstaff War, as it was the only one that was a clear defeat for anti-crown Māori, putting Hone Heke out of action with injuries for months on end, and forcing Kawiti to rethink his approach to the war, hence the battle at Ruapekapeka.
The Flagstaff war being a Māori last chance:
This is a pretty flawed interpretation of the history of tino rangatiratanga. The flagstaff war was the first of many crown-Māori wars in Aotearoa, with many other campaigns such as the Hutt Valley and Whanganui campaigns, the two Taranaki wars, the invasion of the Waikato, and Te Kooti's war (and that's not even a comprehensive list). Reducing the fate of Māori to the uncertain outcome of the Flagstaff war and the fate of Ngāpuhi is reductive both historically and culturally, and its important that people understand that the Flagstaff War is a chapter of the history of Te Tiriti, and not the whole story itself.
Of course, none of this is to imply that this video was made with ill intentions. It's good to have discussions about these events so that people can be educated on the history of tino rangatiratanga and an introduction to the long-term causes of racial inequality in NZ. Thanks for making it, and I hope everyone watching and reading has learned something new about the ground under their feet and its whakapapa.
thank you for adding this!! i'm ngāi tahu, studying te reo at the moment, and i totally agree that a lot of context was missed but its definitely a great conversation starter!!
Mahi nui e hoa!! Boost this comment up friends, incredible & valuable knowledge, tēnā koe tēnā koutou ♥️
Thank you for your teaching, straight from the source! Learned a lot from this as Pakeha & appreciate your time to write this out, ka pai tō mahi!
Much respect to the people of New Zealand!
I hope Spectacles pins this comment.
That is way to much to read for a UA-cam comment
Is there an old trail from the back of Ruapekapeka that goes all the way to Oakura??
Took a pause from work as soon as I saw the notification. We got to lift this channel up, the quality behind these videos (graphics, research, narration) is up there with the best of them.
The whole time I was watching I assumed this was a super large channel with millions of subs. I did not expect this to only have 8.5k views. This is quality content! You deserve 1000x that!
Cause he literally copied Lemino editing style . So you’ve probably seen a. Channel with
Millions of subs that looks extremely similar
@@JoeRogansForehead "copying" is a negative term to use, i would say more inspire; Because he using one that look similar but still educating people use it.
2 weeks later and 10x more views. Getting there!
Hey! Resident of Aotearoa New Zealand here with a handy pronunciation guide for Te Reo Māori:
A = cAr
E = Egg
I = frEE
O = OAr
U = trUE
NG = thiNG
WH = gaFF (this one is confusing, I understand)
If you see an accent over a vowel, or a double vowel (ie Kākā or Kooti) simply elongate the sound.
Te Reo Māori is really easy to learn once you know these basic rules, as it's one of the only languages in the world that's 100% phonetically consistent, meaning once you know how to pronounce all the letters, you can confidently pronounce every word in the Māori dictionary!
I hope you enjoyed my fun little lesson about our beautiful corner of the world. Ka pai, kia kaha!
Te Reo is the Tainui dialect.
It is absolutely not 100% phonetically consistent, and denies other dialects existence, going so far as to "officially" change the spelling and pronunciation of other iwi dialects: cf Wanganui to Whanganui. The iwi in that area did not use an "f" sound. The history of the written maori language (even the accents over vowels are extremely recent, and only came in to bully other iwi) is quite fascinating, right from its inception; the 'wh' sound is pronounced like whoosh in the central north island where the written language was created; phonetically, by a European settler. 'wh' as 'f' is a completely Tainui affectation, like certain english dialects dropping 'h' from the start of words, and for much the same reasons.
Pronunciation is wildly different between south Auckland and Hamilton, for example. You just have to talk to the locals to know this. If you get your maori from Te Reo, you'd never know.
I have a river view overlooking Turangawaewae. The yearly regatta is an awesome spectacle, btw.
@@elLooto Tried to simplify for a foreign audience and ended up using poor wording, my bad.
What I meant was that every letter in standard written Te Reo is pronounced, and pronounced the same way every time.
For example E is pronounced the same no matter where in the word it is, unlike in all European languages (that I'm familiar with, welcome to be corrected). I know in Greek the letter N can change based on the letters around it, and I know this is the case for slavic, SE Asian, Celtic, etc languages - I just don't know enough to give examples
I know you're just saying racist shit to get a rise (how boring your life must be that this is your entertainment), but in case you want to learn and begin to mend your bigoted ways, here's a fun fact:
If you consider Te Reo Māori primitive (which, by the way, isn't a scientific term), you must also admit that English, which has been evolving in its modern form for about the same amount of time as Te Reo (English c.1000ad, Te Reo c.1300ad), is also a primitive language. "But what about Old English?" You say. What about old Māori? All languages evolved from an earlier version of themselves, that's how language works. There is no such thing as a primitive language because all naturally occurring languages have been evolving for the exact same amount of time.
Also! If you think Te Reo is primitive, by god you must think Latin is only spoken by the dumbest of the dumb huh?
These comments are a good example of maori disunity
@@Donsomebody All natural languages are equal. If you only treat European languages as "civilised", then of course non-European language features will seem "primitive".
im a kiwi and every new zealander should watch this. really puts things into perspective
This is such a great video! Te Tiriti o Waitangi is covered a lot here in New Zealand, but not the events following it. The Māori pronunciations are quite painful, but this is really well researched and shows a great respect for the culture. You've gained a subscriber!
Don't shame him for using Te Reo, his pronounciation is better than a lot of NZ Pakeha.
@@juanjuan5698 is that what you told yourself when ALL Maori students were smarter than you?
@@juanjuan5698 there is no racism is saying that New Zealand European have trouble pronouncing Māori language, in many cases they choose to pronounce it how they feel it should sound, rather than pronouncing it correctly, but as I made a point in saying was NOT to shame people who are at least are trying.
What you have said is OUTRIGHT racism. Just because you don't see people in your chosen subject, doesn't mean they aren't as smart OR ARE LESSER THAN EVERYONE ELSE.
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Just for context what did juan say?
@@agent1485 can't really say what he said because it was outright racist. I already referenced what he said in that post.
Hey Spectacles! Just wanted to let you know that as a Kiwi it means the world for anyone to acknowledge our country! And a high quality video on a part of our history I've never heard about is even better!
When I saw the title I thought it was going to be about Hone Heke.
Have to switch from the phone to the big screen when the spectacles comes on
You should give a retelling of chunuk bair in WW1 which showed the distinctive differences that were present of how NZ and Austrailia weren't considered an extension of the British empire but simply a part of it.
Which is a handy way to convince thousands of young men to march to their deaths. You can see an example of this today in Russia where men from 5000kms away are being dragged over to Ukraine to die horribly for nothing but this vague concept of 'motherland.'
NZ and Aussie men were cannon fodder to be fed to the guns by the shovelful. You can see exactly what I mean if you spend any time reading about how the Gallipoli campaign went.
Insane how good this channel is. Better than anything Netflix makes
Te Reo Māori is in my opinion the easiest language of an English-colonised people for an English speaker to pronounce, though the vowels are a bit harder for most Americans. It just takes a little care, e.g. your pronunciation of Aotearoa is excellent. One thing many people even in NZ screw up is stress placement, which is with the first long vowel/diphthong and otherwise on the first syllable
The quality of your videos is incredible. Can't wait until you get the gold button too!
Don't know why he didn't ask a couple of people on how to pronounce things when he was in New Zealand
I love the fact that you travel the world for your Videos, so much effort and love goes Into them and one can really feel that, absolutley great work, keep it going please 😊
Thanks for covering an incident during the New Zealand Wars. These conflicts consolidated settler control over New Zealand and laid the foundations for the development of NZ as a settler colony.
I’m so impressed by your editing skills! I wish I could learn to edit like that someday
Yo this video is crazy good, the attention to detail is immaculate and the production is crazy good, how does this not have more views????
1:56 There is one biiiig thing Spectacle got wrong about the Treaty of Waitangi (Source, I live in New Zealand, doesn't mean I'm more knowledgeable but the treaty is a unavoidable topic in NZ history and is still considered a founding document)
The treaty of Waitangi, I'll call it "TOW", was a document that was written in two languages; English and Maori. The intention of it was the English side of the treaty, which goal's Spectacle got spot on, however the translation into Maori was perfectly awful. As in, it was translated well enough to read but translated into something else entirely.
The english side of TOW said in a TDLR fashion "The crown would have the land"
The Maori side of TOW said in a TDLR fashion "The tribes would have the land" because the Maori language had no concept of what the crown was, so rather than use use the english word they translated to it. And you might think "Oh, but that's your TDLR summery of the whole cluster fuck, surely the whole document wasn't like that"... the whole document was like that. Instead of using the plain english words, the treaty used words which the Maori would conceptually understand, which rewrote their side of TOW into giving the maori all the land.
Effectively, TWO promised in two different ways that both the british and the Maori would own all the land, not that they'd have their own separate areas as Spectacle suggested.
Tbh, I'm still on the fence if it was a genuine mistake or the british being dicks again, but when explaining it to others I try to make it out as a mistake, because often where there seems to be malice is usually just idiocy.
Idiocy I think tbh
For reference: TL;DR, for "Too long; Didn't Read", not TDLR for... *shrug*. Not super important, I just tend not notice stuff like that.
I'd give decent odds that at the time it was 'best attempt to actually translate what the people are acutally agreeing to for those Maori who could not read the English version (which was to be the actual legal document)'. And, of course, while there were a number of Maori who could read English perfectly well by that point, the number who couldn't was still 'most of them'. Doesn't even really require any idiocy, just the limitations of translation (much more difficult than most give it credit for when the languages in question lack relevant common cultural references to work from).
Following the usual practice of humanity, people (not just the British) being dicks about it came later.
Thank you for bringing this up! It's such an important part that a lot of people don't know about
I've been doing a lot of study on te Tiriti recently, and the mistranslations were because the translators knew that if they translated the English to Te Reo directly Māori would not sign.
Also because the translation was done literally overnight by a missionary and his son who were not native Te Reo speakers, and without the help of native Te Reo speakers.
imo lack of respect to limitations of the language & malice due to lack of consultation and clarification; idiocy in those who (often unknowingly) carried the English version as a substitute for both into history and beyond, when there were identifiable mistranslations from so very early on.
For not-kiwis, there was an incident at one of our museums of National history, Te Papa, this past December wherein pro-te Tiriti (those who _honour the treaty_ that the current government is trying to interfere with) protestors defaced the large exhibition where these two documents are carved into large wood display panels side-by-side (this is not the original document, but that is also there). They spray-painted across the English document mistranslations (from te Reo to English, as opposed to the way it was initially translated). As a lover of art & a student of Information Studies, this really shocked me at first, but their message imo is an even stronger piece of protest art now. I believe it is still being kept up as such. Dude literally abseiled in to protect the message of te Tiriti his ancestors know, done in a way that let the people be heard when parliament began their talks, legend tbh!
The promo transition was smooth 😂
the waitangi treaty is perhaps one of the most well known events in NZ history, a perfect example of how peaceful doesn't always mean kind.
Didn't expect to see something from my country on this channel. Good stuff
This is actually decently accurate to what I've experienced and learned from being at most of those places, people and my family who used to live nearby to that region. Could do with some work on pronunciation but overall good work!
this is polished, professional, and interesting. You have a fantastic channel. I know you'll blow up soon.
Spectacles u spectacular bastard; ty 4 the content as usual
So happy I’m here before this channel blows up!
Congrats on the 100k subs!
Love your channel guys
Great video thank you
It is a good day when Spectacles uploads 😊
Bro great documentary I’m kiwi and learned something new watching this thank you 🙏
Absolutely fantastic little documentary, New Zealand's formative years are more fascinating than I thought
the New Zealand wars are such an interesting topic to learn about, I think the treaty of Waitangi was translated in like 1 night before the signing and the main point of conflict was that I think Sovereignty wasn't a word in Māori and something about "Complete Ownership" wasn't translated thoroughly. Correct if wrong
but every mispronunciation hit me like a truck
I have mixed feelings about this video. I appreciate that you've made a video about Maori culture, but a lot of the history in this video is very incorrect, and some of the biggest events have just been missed out. Much has been mentioned by others, but one person who's been greatly under represented is Te Ruki Kawiti.
He was Heke's uncle, and my own ancestor. He was the last to sign the Treaty and disapproved of it from the start. Much of the rebellion was joint between their people and the two of them.
At the battle of Ohaeawai, Heke wasnt actually there at all. He'd heen badly injured after the invasion of his own pa and wasn't involved whatsoever. The battle was led by Te Ruki Kawiti, who had designed the fortifications, its often attributed as the first instance of trench warfare being used. Ruapekapeka, again was all Kawitis design, and led Kawiti with Heke in support now that he'd recovered. Neither of these forts were important at all. They were built solely to waste the resources and time of the British on empty, culturally irrelevant spots.
Kawiti was the one who led the attack on Russel/Kororareka whilst Heke cut the flag down, and came to Heke's rescue when Tamati Waka Nene attacked my fighting in hand to hand combat throughout.
The outcome of the war wasn't decisive, the Ngapuhi were under economic pressure for peace, but they didnt sucede to the British. The British had wasted an excessive level of resources trying to defeat the rebellion and did now have peace, but had captured very little in result (as all of those forts had been constructed with the sole purpose of wasting their time in the middle of nowhere).
Kawiti did all of this whilst in his 70s. His son, my great great great great grandfather Maihi Paraone Kawiti would lead reconcilation with the British and eventually the restoration and reinstallment of the flagstaff there today, made and lifted by descendents of the men who fought in the rebellion as a show of good faith.
All that and no mention it was the Americans that taught them a lot of that.
America being a rebellious nation seen an ally in the Maori.
@@jimijamesjowitt No offence but what the hell are you talking about? That's never even been a part of the story. Ever. I don't know if maybe you just want that to be a part of history but the Americans were never involved in this.
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“God fights on the side with the best artillery.” -European proverb
++ Big Guns Never Tire ++ -Imperial Guardsman’s Uplifting Primer
then why'd they lose?
@@skuzza405 The people with the best artillery won. That’s precisely what the man was saying.
@@piedpiper1172...except the british didn't have a single military victory during the whole war. that quote is referring to the reason he took up arms, not the reason for defeat. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NENZC18460404.2.22?items_per_page=100&page=6
If we had equal ground same technology advancements, we would still roam freely today forevermore.
Wow, this was a lot better than your previous short video on New Zealand. Thanks for helping bring this piece of NZ history to the wider world.
Brilliant narrative of the events. Those which I did not know of.
Just a small correction. Aotearoa wasn't the name of New Zealand in the 1840s. Aotearoa wasn't used as a term for New Zealand, I believe, until 1855. This isn't to say this term is bad or we shouldn't use it. Look at my profile picture, you'll find I am very fond of my countries Maori name. I just think that we need to love it in context of evidence and truth. Before Aotearoa, the term 'Niu Tereni". We should be proud Kiwis, but to be proud Kiwis, and lovers of Aotearoa, we ought not do this void of truth. Many countries are named after smaller settlements or rivers that later made the official nation name for the country.
My dad says there was a murder in the small town where we grew up. A family of 2 adults and a newborn. The adults were shot from an outside window, but the baby he been constantly fed and kept alive over the time from the murders to when the bodies were found
Harvey and Jeanette Crewe? And 18 month old Rochelle was left "alone" for days in her cot.
Murders still unsolved
@@cindyshirreffs2099 Looking into it it says they were found in a river, I don't think that's the one but thanks for telling me this !! :D
The sad part is that, all things considered, Aotearoa was lucky. Lucky that the language, customs and name of this nation are still known across the world. Not many island nations and small native communities trampled by the colonisers can say the same.
we don't consider the loss of our sovereignty, the genocide, mass incarceration and large scale disenfranchisement (including and not limited to the banning of our native language) "lucky", thanks.
@@rebeccagibbs4128 obviously not, as you shouldn't. However Notice the inherent luck in your cultures survival no matter how tainted. Many native nations of The Americas are not even recognized by the State, their language and cultures obliterated or forgotten. Sovereignty is unfortunately not given to those who deserve it in their own lands. And the Nations that remain are not respected or supported on a widespread means, still not even called "Native" but "Indian" based on Columbus' mistake believing he first was in India
Most European-Americans genuinely believe and are partially taught Natives are extinct and we aren't even taught it's a bad thing or the inherent cruelty of our government
@@rebeccagibbs4128 Violin playing
@@rebeccagibbs4128what’s the justification? Does leaving one survivor justify a massacre? No, you’re not using that word right and nobody here has tried to justify colonization or said you were lucky to be colonized. It seems like you could have an important perspective and knowledge to add if your responses had actual relevance to the rest of the conversation, even if that ends with saying you refuse to validate a discussion on comparative outcomes of colonization.
lucky is not the word. Why not frame it, the colonisers were less blood thirsty at this stage and noble savage politics meant Maori avoided previously used tactics. Luck is a good thing and my peoples colonisation was NOT a good thing. How hard is it to understand that. Honestly ya'll think you're tough shit debating this here online. Come stand on my Marae and say that we were lucky at the hands of those who wanted to (and some still do) eradicate us and our culture. @@jacksonbarker7594
Holy cow. I felt like applauding after the intro. Was this an original score from Harry? It sounded amazing.
Yes, Harry did the music on the intro! So good.
Thanks, Johnny!!
It's cool learning about Hone Heke in Social Studies in school and then to hear about him acknowledged by the greater internet
Wild this channel hasn’t blown up yet
I'm from NZ and I didn't know this!
Well it’s something depending on education, most of these stuff are old so if you went school here during the 90s then you would know about 80% of New Zealand history
Weirdly enough, I'm related to Henry Williams on my father's side and to Hone Heke on my mother's side.
Some of us still refer to NZ as Aotearoa btw! Cool video too, thanks for shining a light on some interesting kiwi history.
Thanks for the vid school never did a good job at explaining this to me
Im pakeha and unfortunately theres alot i still dont about our history i know things happened but not how
Brilliant video, deserves more views. Massive respect to NZ as an Aussie, we are so much further behind in relations with our native population.
You should read about the musket wars which preceded the treaty for context. The treaty wasn't about colonization it was about ending a hellish culture of genocide and enslavement. NZ was known as the Hell-Hole of the Pacific at the time and it's a very accurate description. It was a lawless and extremely violent place, the British very definitely did not want it, they had the Indian mutiny to contend with.
Huh
@@longiusaescius2537go look up the maori land wars and the musket wars.
They are not wrong
@@hyndscs nz Brits are mostly smug libs though no?
the musket wars themselves had little to do with the signing of te tiriti. the musket trade, however, was a factor. the rangatira of ngāpuhi were pushed to sign te tiriti as they feared that any single hapū that signed would had a significant advantage in trade with the British for muskets over the others who would not sign. take te ruki kawiti for instance, he was one of te tiriti's most staunch advocates, saying that signing te tiriti would lead to ngāpuhi being trodden on by the british - he would still sign te tiriti later though, saying that his people pushed him to sign as they didn't want to lose a possible edge in trade with the British. there's no british contemporary account that states that the musket wars were a factor in the writing of te tiriti nor he whakaputanga
@@skuzza405 musket trade in NZ. Muskets entered NZ in the bay of islands and gave far northern tribes a decisive military advantage. It took a long time before Southern tribes could gain sufficient muskets to pay back utu on northern tribes.
Northern tribes then sought British protection under the treaty from revenge massacres.
Hey Harry you got the date wrong at 9:55 it's July 1944 not 1945, was so confused when the next date was January 1945 that I had to look it up. Excellent vid though
Also I had no idea that Hōne Heke flew the US flag. It's my new favourite fact about NZ history, funniest shit ever!
Im from New Zealand and I didn't know this. I feel like we probably should of learnt this in school.
Lindy Beige has a great video about Gate Pa, a good companion to this excellent video
Beautifully made video as always, but how the _whuck_ did you get the _wh_ sound wrong?
because 'wh' as 'f' is a Tainui thing.
@@elLootoKao? Ko te whakaahuatia i te reo Māori katoa o "wh" rite ki te "f" i te reo Pākehā, hāunga te reo-ā-iwi ki Taranaki (ki korā, ka kōrero rātou "w", ehara i te "f"; ka turuki rātou ō rātou ngā "h"). Ka mea rea ka mōhiotia whanautia tērā, nē?
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In very little maori is wh traditionally pronounced f.
You need to look into the history of the written language, which was created by a european (like the word Aotearoa, itself), who was based in the central north island. Its not normal in the south island either. When creating a written language you dont create phonetic contradictions; the guy had "f," therefore wh is not pronounced "f," especially when youve gone to the trouble to separate 'na' from 'nga.' which is way less of a phonetic difference.
I find it funny when older Maori tell me they cant understand their kids accent, because they learned it in school instead of on the marae ;)
Te Reo is the Tainui dialect, for the same reason the Kingi is Tainui. Looking forward to the regatta at Turangawaewae. Will you be there?
@@walterzamalis4846I have to give mad credit to the (Translated by Google) because this is the most accurate I’ve seen it translate any language to Engrish 😂 if only they had Google translate at Waitangi ay hahah
Great video
Ngapuhi = the 'g' is silent so it is 'Na-pu-he'.
To add to that, this applies to any word that contains “ng” or “nga”, I’m Filipino but raised in NZ, so naturally did not have any issues pronouncing most Māori words. I believe this linguistic characteristic is universal in almost every austronesian language
No, it's not silent at all. This guy just added a syllable.
@@2255223388 I mean all of his pronunciations are pretty off but yeah, it's not silent and it's not as pronounced. It's more just sayingthe "ng" in "singing" with a little less emphasis on the g and more on the n. Definitely takes practice, props to Spectacles for trying.
The nga or ŋa sound aka voiced velar nasal is silent in inuktitut and other inuit-yupik-unganan family languages too, I really don't have any trouble with te reo Maōri despite it and inuktitut being vastly different from each other
@@S3lkie-Gutz Pretty sure it's the same sound as the NG in English 'thing', no? English just... doesn't allow that sound in the onset of a syllable, so English speakers struggle with it when it shows up there in other languages.
You, sir, are the most brilliant American I've heard speak on this subject.
Great video it’s interesting to see our history told by someone from outside the country, it’s unfortunate that the history of the New Zealand wars could be expanded on but you would need 3-4 hours to tell that story but thank you for telling the story anyway I very much appreciate you taking the time to respectfully try and explain what made us to the rest of the world
As a kiwi it is always interesting to see a Fourniers opinion
Never thought I would hear someone use Hone Heke as a Segway for a sponsor.
I (american) lived in New Zealand for a year and a half and I regret not seeing more of it while I was there. I was fortunate enough to drive from Queenstown to Milford Sound on a rare clear day, and it’s the most breathtaking scenery I have ever seen with my own eyes. No wonder the Māori wanted to keep their lands.
lucky you - I just went in a downpour. couldn't see a damn thing!
But you're totally right.
I've been twice, in sunshine and in a downpour. I thought it was more spectacular with the rain, all the waterfalls coming off the cliffs into the sea.
as a pakeha new zealander, honestly the british should've left aotearoa tf alone and minded their own business. te titiri o waitangi was intentionally mistranslated by an englishman when he was translating it to te reo māori. it was a con.
If the british left, the french would've taken their place. Colonisation was inevitable.
what software do u use for the 3d animations?
blender
Whats tragic is that the recent government is trying to remove the Maori legislative seats. Both out of racism, and for personal political gain from supporters of there party
Reasonable effort. But check out Sir Apirana Ngata's historical writing.
I went to school with a guy who was named after Hone. I was then informed by my mate on the cutting of the flagpole. I didn't know about the murder beforehand though. Just the flag and following war. Mad respect for Hone he's always been one of my favs in Aotearoa history. I love that you mentioned the seats in parliament assigned for Maori representation. I switched to the Maori electoral roll last year, trying to get my lil bro to switch as well since our mother's side is Maori.
Great pronunciation dude!
Hahaha
As an ancestor of Sir Apirana Ngata - the most famous Maori politician and the man on our $50 note - i can proudly say our people have come a long way since our first engagements - both ethnicity's of tangata whenua. (people of the land) Sadly, there is still much to discuss and come to an agreement/arrangement on, however, i know one day soon the land of Aotearoa New Zealand will cede its ignorance/tall poppy syndrome and other such limitations and finally flourish fully into the land of fortune and grace it has always been.
To my shame, this is the most I have ever learned about the colonization of the Maori lands. To my joy- and your credit, Sir Spectacles, I have finally learned an introduction to Māori civilization at the time of British arrival. This doc was an awesome work. I look forward to watching the rest of what you have created.
Pretty good. I can't understand if he's been here, how he can pronounce Te Tai Tokerau and Ngapuhi so stangely!
New Zealand was a tribal society where the strongest survived. It was also a land of multiple migrations by boat. Eventually, a tribe would win and those people's and government came on boats like everybody else. They were the British. This is pretty much the history of any country and human history is full of conquests. Even England itself has a similar story with the Anglo-Saxons. The British Empire in this instance was like the Roman Empire. You could surrender and join, or fight.
Thank you so much for the effort you put into pronunciation of Māori words!!! Ka pai!!! Clearly a bit of mahi goes into your work, ka kite.
So many videos about my country that I stop watching in seconds because if they haven’t heard someone say Māori properly then how shallow was their research?
That comment i left here was by accident. I was watching a short on my home page, when i wrote the comment it was on the short but somehow transferred to this video
young toko frm the city of auckland in the suburb of Otara, the philosophy is tuff
Fantastic video, thank you for covering our countries History because it's not really well known outside our own country. While you mispronounced pretty much every Maori word, you made a good effort and did better than most who try.
Hi, I just stumbled across this video in my Recommendations. You say it was a "quadruple" murder, but Wikipedia says that 5 people were killed.
This case kind of reminds me of the Hong Kong extradition law that caused the protest movement back in 2019.
While this captures part of the story, I think the desire for land and exportable goods also explains why this land was colonised and brought under heel the way it was.
Man this would do well as a Hollywood movie about Hone Heke
I loved learning more about a Civilization VI unique improvement. Maybe some well-crafted sociopolitical history and analysis on the side.
that's what it's all about
The glasses at the intro looks like the Vodafone Logo lol
Video idea: the killing of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002. The Dutch JFK mystery
God bless you
That ad Segway was so insensitive .
This narrator has a pritty good flow hahha
I like your vids but keep in mind ads when you're making the video because your narration is so quiet that when I turn it up enough to hear it the ads are so obnoxiously loud
Pronunciation on point
SIKE!
It’s consuming to think of land grabs as something only of colonial powers. Within New Zealand there were multiple tribes who fought each other and conquered each others land.
Don't forget the internal slave trade
And then there's the fun part where most of the scam land sales that caused great upset weren't actually the British Government screwing over the local Maori, they were some random european land developer and his Maori associate getting together to screw over the tribe in a get rich quick scheme exploiting the differences in understanding of land ownership, the locals (both Maori and European) pitching a fit over the result... and the British government officials having no idea how the hell to deal with the Maori model of land ownership when trying to resolve the matter sensibly (if not fairly) and so making ... questionable... decisions in an attempt to resolve things.
Oh, and there's the fun of the group of Maori who decided to get in on this whole 'colonialism' game and charted a European ship to go off and conquer one of the nearby (as such things go) islands that Wasn't part of New Zealand, engaging in a little fun complete-genocide-of-the-locals of their own, even as the British (and later not-actually-the-British-as-such) government of New Zealand was generally pretty keen on Not actually engaging in genocide, for all it's other faults (for reference, I'm talking about Actual genocide here, not 'cultural' genocide, which is mostly used as a justification to NOT do things that would actually Prevent Actual Genocide in the sort of situations where things have devolved to the point where that's a legitimate concern).
An odd note: the subtitles use alternate language to the audio, same in meaning but different in words.
How come this is so?
In reality there were two treaties signed the English one and one that was translated into Maori by an Anglican priest and the priest gave the Maori one and altogether different translation
They deny the basic fact they lied… but the truth is the truth
The G is silent is Nga Puhi. Kia ora tho. Good pronunciation attempts
Great video!
As a resident of Russell with a partner and most friends from Kerikeri it always trips me the hell out seeing footage of places a 10 minute walk from my house on the internet. Also that aint how you pronounce Ngapuhi, not even close
Great vid though
A fascinating story of resistance by the Maori. Even though they ultimately were defeated by the British their fight was not ultimately in vain. In the grand scheme of things they got a better deal than many other native peoples. Sure there is still a lot of room for improvement, but there is hope that things will improve for them.
How can they improve past being more-than-equal under the law, with Seats in Parliament reserved solely for members of their race (literal systemic racism) and favoritism in social programs?
It is interesting to note that the series of conflicts previously known as 'the Maori Wars' has, in recent times, come to be refered to as 'the New Zealand Wars'... on the basis that it was almost never 'Maori vs European' but a real mixed bag of conflicts which pretty consistently had Maori tribes on both sides of them, and frequently had various Europeans involved on the non-central government side. The whole collection can loosely be termed unification wars, but individually, some where various tribes which the central government was content to leave mostly to their own devices deciding to have a go at taking control of the whole thing, and there was a major religious uprising (by what amounts to a cult of a similar model to those seen doing similar things in other places, right down to believing that those who believed strongly enough were immune to bullets), a couple that are probably arguably more civil wars than anything, various conflicts that arguably weren't really wars in their own right but were big enought to count as skirmishes in the greater mess... and the last conflict basically amounted to the central government deciding that having a 'last village holding out against the invaders' situation wasn't exactly a great idea during World War One and sending a large group of police officers to inform them that their independance had been revoked. Not sure if I'm remembering rightly, but I believe that one didn't even involve anyone actually shooting at each other.
Arugably, there's a fair case to be made that the lot of the Maori people would have actually been substantually better Without most (though not all, quite an important distinction, that) of those conflicts.
@@elLooto When you actually break down what they are and how they work, the Maori seats aren't actually an issue, not actually granting meaningly more representation to any individual than a regular seat would.
Other matters... are a complete mess.
There are areas where the system is still actively racist against Maori.
There are areas where it is actively racist in Favour of Maori.
There are areas that run into problems because those in charge of policy somehow seem incapable of grasping the idea of poor people who Aren't Maori (or maybe pacific islanders)... make of That what you will, but it causes problems.
Then you have Maori Supremacists making a mess of things, Radical Progressives more interested in their ideological dogma than the actual reality of the situation (the UN's bit about native cogovernance makes Perfect sense when you're talking about a few native tribes who mostly don't interact with the wider nation and want to prevent them from being abused, it's complete nonsensical bullshit when said natives all but universally live in the same places under the same economic models using the same resorces in the same ways as the rest of the citizenry.), various parts of the right using rightful opposition to that as an excuse to push another round of pro-white/anti-maori racist nonsense (mind you, this is almost always as a tool, a means to an end, rather than the Goal. The NZ voting public still hasn't quite fallen far enough as to actually elect the malicious and/or deranged, mostly-american-influenced 'far right' (for want of a better term) to parliament. The parties that Do get in are all pretty rubbish regardless of supposed alignment, but none of them are That far gone.)
Damn you! Iwas like, wait, the Maori had PowerPoint? Hahaha
"Never let a good crisis go to waste"
Also I can't with you saying it like "mAWrEE"
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By the time Britain drafted the Treaty of Waitangi they were already old hands in the business of colonization and therefore the idea that any discrepancies in the document were simply mistranslations is quite frankly rather difficult to swallow the British being masters of the diplomatic double-cross would never have let the acquisition of important new territories slip from their grasp, the fact that their version favors the British immeasurably should really tell us most of what we need to know in regards to the duplicity practiced by white settlers all over the world in this period.