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Week 3 of 4

Muskets, disease and Nunuku's Covenant: causes and consequences

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Session 1 · TRACE: Accounts

Source-work clinic

  1. 10 minWhat makes a source useful? Primary and secondary sources; oral histories; objects and places. What can one source alone never tell you?
  2. 25 minSource stations: a missionary letter, a trader's report, an iwi history, a map and a painting about your context. Fill in the source-detective card: who, when, why, what it shows, what it leaves out.
  3. 10 minCorroborate: find one claim two sources agree on, and one where they disagree. Which would you trust more for which question?
  4. 5 minAdd your best source to the class evidence wall with a one-line reliability note.

Session 2 · TRACE: Causes & Consequences

The Musket Wars

  1. 10 minRead 'Muskets, disease and Nunuku's Covenant', part 1. Why did muskets spread so fast after about 1818?
  2. 20 minCause-and-consequence chain: arrange cards (trade for muskets, old grievances and utu, iwi without muskets at risk, new crops feeding war parties, migrations, disease) into a chain. Argue about the order.
  3. 15 minWho moved and where? On a map of Aotearoa, trace one iwi migration during the Musket Wars. What happened to land and mana whenua?
  4. 5 minKārearea asks one question: 'Which link in your chain has the strongest evidence behind it?'

Session 3 · TRACE: Causes & Consequences

Nunuku's Covenant

  1. 10 minRead part 2 of the reading: Moriori on Rēkohu, Nunuku-whenua's law against killing, and 1835.
  2. 20 minValues circle: Moriori met in a large hui and chose to keep their covenant of peace. Discuss what that choice tells us about Moriori values, and why it matters today. Everyone gets a turn; nobody has to speak.
  3. 15 minConsequences over time: short-term, long-term and today. Add Hokotehi Moriori Trust, Kōpinga Marae (2005) and the 2021 Moriori settlement to the timeline.
  4. 5 minExit card: one consequence of contact that surprised you, and one question you still have.

Getting started

Use a cause → change → consequence frame with the first card placed for you.

Stretch

Explain why disease killed so many people after contact, and why that is hard to measure from the sources we have.

Checkpoint

The group's draft names at least two perspectives and one cause-and-consequence chain, each backed by a source.

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