Section outline

  • EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING concepts of Tangata Tiriti and Tangata Whenua.
    • We are EXPLORING the relations between Asian Tauiwi and Tangata Whenua.
    • We are EXPLORING different cases of cultural interaction around the Treaty and imagining how the future might look in 2040.

    Kia ora ngā taiohinga mā, nau mai haere mai.

    Kohikohi ngā kākano, whakaritea te pārekereke, kia puāwai ngā hua

    Gather the seeds, prepare the seedbed carefully, and you will be gifted with abundance of food

    Our learning context this term is ‘Changing Places’’ - and in global studies this will relate to your home community here in Flatbush/Ōwairoa - and its global reach. From Polynesian origins to present-day diversity We will be asking 3 big questions for inquiry this term and we will be exploring them in different ways - so we get a more complete picture.

    1. Who are Tangata Tiriti & who are Tangata Whenua?

    2. How did our community in Flatbush/Ōwairoa form over time?

    3. What could 2040 look like in our community?

    Defining Tangata Tiriti: 

    At Waitangi in 1989 when he was chair of the Waitangi Tribunal, Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie, current chair of the Māori Council, referred to non-Māori as Tangata Tiriti: those who belong to this land by right of te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi. He noted that without the Treaty they would have no lawful presence in such numbers nor any legitimate political role in this part of the Pacific. Put another way, in the Treaty there were Tangata Whenua – people of the land – and Tangata Tiriti – people of the Treaty. (Tangata Tiriti includes everyone who cannot whakapapa to a Māori ancestor, not just white people from Britain as it is not an ethnic term). In te Tiriti the Crown undertook to respect and uphold the tino rangatiratanga of the many independent hapū in exchange for the right to govern its own subjects within the boundaries of the land granted to them. Those same subjects, or citizens as we say now, were therefore also bound to recognise the mana whenua status (independent authority) of their local hapū with all their powers of tino rangatiratanga. However the Crown (‘Kāwanatanga’ in te Tiriti) quickly got out of control, unilaterally taking to itself the power to govern the whole country and all of its citizens. Now that Tangata Tiriti have at last begun to understand the Treaty they have begun to accept the responsibility to promote the establishment of an honourable Kāwanatanga – the one promised in the Treaty. The Treaty was and is an invitation to Tangata Tiriti to belong in this land IF the Treaty is honoured. It is the basis of the developing culture of Tangata Tiriti and of their nationhood.

    Success Criteria:

    I can discuss and define the terms: Tangata Tiriti & Tangata Whenua.

    I can explain how our community came to be in Flatbush/Ōwairoa.

    I understand the part the Treaty plays in my life and in our collective future..

    Activities:

    Inquiry stage 1 - intro to colonialism Edpuzzle