{"id":10479,"date":"2017-12-03T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T22:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10479"},"modified":"2017-12-03T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T04:56:48","slug":"dr-don-brash-spreading-false-history-of-moriori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10479","title":{"rendered":"Dr Don Brash spreading false history of Moriori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10478\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-01-at-7.02.27-AM-600x336.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10478 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-01-at-7.02.27-AM-600x336.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-01-at-7.02.27-AM-600x336.png 600w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-01-at-7.02.27-AM-600x336-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-01-at-7.02.27-AM-600x336-123x70.png 123w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-01-at-7.02.27-AM-600x336-254x141.png 254w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-01-at-7.02.27-AM-600x336-570x320.png 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Don Brash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On a Radio New Zealand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/saturday\/audio\/2018623927\/don-brash-ragging-on-te-reo\">interview<\/a> with Kim Hill, Dr Don Brash made this bizarre comment &#8220;<em>The people that arrived before M\u0101ori\u00a0were Moriori then the M\u0101ori slaughtered them<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Brash is quoting his School Journal of July 1916. During world\u00a0war 1 New Zealand was going through a celebration of British colonisation and the history of the Moriori people was &#8220;adjusted&#8221; to vilify M\u0101ori as conquest over a pre-Polynesian Moriori settlers.<\/p>\n<p>This false history was used to justify a benevolent colonisation of New Zealand by the British. A\u00a0 way of painting a picture if M\u0101ori destroyed the Moriori civilisation then that justifies what the British colonists did to M\u0101ori. It also helped undermine M\u0101ori as being indigenous to New Zealand Aotearoa.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this is the only history many British New Zealanders are capable of reciting or the conspiracy theories the Welsh, Celtics, Sumerians, Greeks and Americans discovered New Zealand before Polynesians. They are missing fundamental basics of New Zealand history like the Treaty of Waitangi\u00a0was a gracious invitation from M\u0101ori for British colonists to immigrate to New Zealand it was under no circumstances a colonial conquest.<\/p>\n<p>The Morori people came to Aotearoa New Zealand during the great migration with the Polynesians voyagers. Moriori\u00a0are\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #444444;\">Maori. See\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/4789044\/Rewriting-the-history-of-Moriori\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Rewriting-the-history-of-Moriori<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The notion that Dr Brash perceives himself as an expert on Treaty issues is questionable considering he is missing vast tracts of basic New Zealand history. Dr Brash owes the Morori\u00a0people an apology on\u00a0National Radio for spreading these vicious rumours.<\/p>\n<h1>&#8220;Turituri Brash!<\/h1>\n<h1>Moriori are M\u0101ori&#8221;<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Trinder On a Radio New Zealand interview with Kim Hill, Dr Don Brash made this bizarre comment &#8220;The people that arrived before M\u0101ori\u00a0were Moriori then the M\u0101ori slaughtered them&#8220;. Dr Brash is quoting his School Journal of July 1916. During world\u00a0war 1 New Zealand was going through a celebration of British colonisation and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10479"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10505,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions\/10505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}