Comments by "Weeby Kiwi" (@MatuaKiwi) on "Chlöe Swarbrick and Brooke van Velden on Treaty plan backlash | TVNZ Breakfast" video.

so we want a nation that largely doesnt follow maori tradition that doesnt speak maori have control of what a document in te reo means ?. this is a bad idea history tells that all documents interpreted by people outside the language and culture mis interpret it. The bible is one of the most famous documents that does it
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@4evaavfc bugger all even know 500 ppl signed te tiriti and only 39 signed the english version
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@simondobson5278 historically speaking skirmishes between maori were not over land but honor and past grievances. We werent the type to just smoke people and take everything. That only happened after Pakeha influence
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@simondobson5278 we weren't stupid bro we knew that if we didnt have muskets we didnt stand a chance in warfare. the musket wars were fueled by the need to stay technologically relevant in the new type of warfare pakeha brought with them. And to get muskets you traded maori heads
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@jamescooper-hope6930 no im making a omparison between the mistranslation of our treaty and a document that was mistranslated by people who didnt speak hebrew and and defined passages as they saw fit. You need to work on you ability to contextualize whats being said correctly
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@simondobson5278 your talking about the musket wars they werent land wars they were wars driven by trade for muskets. 1 maori head was worth one musket to pakeha
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@peterdillon3749 yes
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@BallisticCoefficient i know the history and if you did too you'd know that cannibalism wasn't common practice there was like two chiefs that practiced the tradition this propaganda was perpetuated through Pakeha trying to sell bones as cannibalised peoples bones
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@strangecustoms8486 yeah i seen those photos too look up european corpse medicine
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@Chris-d6m6o again all this shet you all bring up happened after pakeha influence learn the countries real history not the white washed re written history. That tells peopel that cook was a nice guy
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