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Week 2 of 5

Te Tiriti o Waitangi: two texts, many signings

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Session 1 · TRACE: Relationships

Two texts, one name

  1. 10 minRead the second part of the reading. What did Captain Hobson want? What did rangatira want?
  2. 25 minTwo-texts grid: compare the three articles in the te reo Māori text (with a modern translation) and the English text. Highlight kāwanatanga, sovereignty, tino rangatiratanga, taonga and 'possession'.
  3. 10 minDiscuss: if you signed the te reo text, what did you think you had agreed to? If you only read the English text, what did you think had happened?
  4. 5 minRecord one sentence: 'The biggest difference between the texts is … and it matters because …'

Session 2 · TRACE: Accounts

Who signed, who refused, who was never asked

  1. 10 minThe signing journey: from 6 February 1840 at Waitangi, copies went around the coast for seven months. About 540 rangatira signed; about 39 signed the English text.
  2. 20 minSigning map: plot signing places on a map of Aotearoa from the NZ History signatory pages. Add rangatira who refused (such as Te Wherowhero of Waikato and Te Heuheu of Ngāti Tūwharetoa) and areas never visited.
  3. 15 minAccounts from the day: read short extracts from speeches at Waitangi recorded by William Colenso, some for and some against. Who recorded them? What might he have missed?
  4. 5 minFind your rohe: was te Tiriti signed near you? By whom?

Getting started

Use the picture-supported two-texts grid with the key words already highlighted.

Stretch

Read what the Waitangi Tribunal found in 2014 about whether the northern rangatira ceded sovereignty, and explain its reasoning in your own words.

Checkpoint

Each student can explain the difference between kāwanatanga and tino rangatiratanga, and each group has placed its rohe on the signing map.

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