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It proves that courage and determination have their way.
For there's lots of little Tuts and Hin-es running round today! -
Thus, peaceful people when invaded, turn themselves to war
and to the victors go the spoils – the slain are there no more.53 lines, 16 comments, on Jan 2 9:47 PM 2005. In Other
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So these early white man contacts brought mixed blessings in their wake:
new materials, new weapons, new afflictions quick to take. -
It is sad those early missionaries quarrelled with each other
and did not practice what they preached “love each man as a brother". -
….and still today the Treaty is a source of great dispute,
its three brief paragraphs are, of much argument, the root. -
In both islands, North and South, there thus came soon a steady stream
of arrivals and their future was assured, it now would seem. -
In 1865 Peace Treaties ended all affray
And 1871 the last regiment sailed away. -
The valuable Kauri gum, another rich resource,
when added to the gold, brought fortune-seekers here in force. -
Prisoners, taken to Dunedin, were eventually set free
(Parihaka’s one example of the white man’s infamy.) -
After all the struggles and injustice both sides had to weather,
Can we now forgive, perhaps forget, and live in peace together? -
The mana of a man (his prestige) rates supremely high.
An insult would result in utu (an eye for an eye!) -
All who saw her loved her madly,
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Nothingness was the beginning;
out of Nothing came the Night.
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You have heard how Ranginui
and his Papatuanuku -
In the land called Rarohenga
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I think that it is Rona
calling for her man and children. -
In the days of ancient legend,
in the early Age of Man, -
Karitoki was a chief’s son,
handsome, young and full of vigour. -
Tino Rangatiratanga is a flag, which Maoris see
as a symbol of our culture and abiding history. -
In 1893 a museum in Chicago bought
the bones of thirteen warriors who had valiantly fought -
I knew three Maori women once
quite unlike any other. -
less than half a mile in distance,
all perceived an apparition, -
I hope Charles Blomfield’s painting will give you an impression of what we were then deprived.
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It’s often said: “The Lord gives but He also takes away”
and Maoris claimed the cataclysm born of godly wrath.
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