In Te Tiriti/Treaty class, we learned about the financial burdens on Māori and the spiritual and social costs it was taking on them. In order for them to claim their land and have it noted down on paper, they had to go through a long process and pay various fees for it. Then we kinda fast forwarded in time to talk about Bastion Point, where a hapū(sub-tribe) I think occupied the land they lost and how military forces were called to arrest them for trespassing on "land belonging to the Crown". Also a brief history of Kingitanga, the 5 different Kings and 1 Queen.
Pretty much in History, we watched a video regarding the invasion of Waikato. The different wars between the hapū and the settlers. Then in tutorial, we had to write an essay answering "In 1840, Governor Hobson declared of New Zealand, ʻwe are now one people', with the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. In what ways and to what extent was Hobson's declaration true of the situation in the 1840s?"
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