Treaty of waitangi

This term at school ( Term 1) we had to write on a google slide shared to me and the other yr 7/8 about The treaty of waitangi if you do not know what the treaty it is what made New Zealand what it is like today. This treaty was signed by 40 Maori chiefs and by signing it they gave full sovereignty to England over New Zealand.


Now we are going to talk about what we did.

First we had to go onto the slide and answer these questions:
Why did people from other places want to settle in New Zealand in the 1830’s? Who were the different groups living in NZ before signing the treaty? What were the issues for Maori and for Pākehā that led to a treaty being entered into?

These were the answers I wrote:

For question one I think Britain was searching for land in order to obtain more power and influence over other countries.

For the second one I wrote that Maori,British,Germans,French,and Whalers.

And for the final one I wrote that if people from different countries came to NZ there were no rules so 13 Maori chiefs wrote to England for protection

When we had finished we had to look at some info about before the treaty was signed.

Then when we had finished that we had to answer some more questions, this time there were more than last time for example,What are the principles of the treaty? (There are three and they all start with P!) I wrote for that,partnership,protection,participation.Then when we had finished that question we had to read some more info on the Treaty of waitangi and then we had finished.I hope you enjoyed this blog bye!!!


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