Year: 2023

Response to text: Treaty of Waitangi

Treaty of Waitangi 

Highlight the correct answer, or type in what you think is correct.

 

  1. When did Maori first arrive in Aotearoa, New Zealand?

 

  1. a) Between 1150 & 1200AD
  2. b) Between 1250 & 1350AD 
  3. c) Between 1250 & 1300AD  
  4. d) Last Year

 

  1. In the 1790’s Pakeha arrived in NZ to do what? 

 

  1. a) Hunt Moa        b) Start families
  2. c) Hunt whale & seals       d) Escape prison sentences

 

  1. What was the name of the British official sent to secure British rule over NZ?

 

  1. a) William Johnson           b) Abel Tasman
  2. c) William Hobson d) Captain James Cook

 

  1. There were two things that Maori chiefs Hone Heke Pokai and Tamati Waka Nene thought signing the treaty would help accomplish. What were they?

 

→It would stop inter-tribal warfare.

→It would stop arguments.

 

  1. True or False: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Treaty of Waitangi are the exact same.

 

  1. a) True b) False

 

 

  1. The Waitangi Tribunal was set up in 1975. Describe the job the Waitangi Tribunal have?

 

→

They had to follow the rules that they wrote on the Treaty, If they broke the treaty promises It would maybe start war. The Treaty was to control the war and to stop it.

 

WORD DEFINITION YOUR OWN SENTENCE
colonisation The action of appropriation of a place or domain for one’s own use.  That way Britain could make rules about things like colonisation and the purchase of land.
treaty Concluded and ratified agreement between states.  A treaty is something you agreed with another country. 
sovereignty  Supreme power or authority  Some people now think that Tino rangatiratanga is a better term for the idea of sovereignty than Kawanatanga.

 

  1. When the treaty was signed William Hobson said out loud “He iwi

tahi tātou.” (“We are one people.”)

What do you think he meant by this?

 

→  At the time Britain was the most powerful country. They had Guns and stuff like that while other people had to craft their own weapon. Then They thought if New Zealand joined the empire  they could make rules such as colonisation.

 

  1. The article describes differences between Te Tiriti and the Treaty of Waitangi – Why do you think those differences caused difficulties?

 

→  This is a Kind of court that investigates whether the government had broken treaty promises.