COMS 4316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lee Tamahori, Faial Island, Positio

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 4316
• Professor: Miranda Brady

Document Summary

Aotearoa/new zealand: continuing legacies of violence and colonization. They believe they will return to their homeland when they die. New europeans settling whaling and other forms of trade. Lawlessness new settlers coming in and no nation/state government were there to govern the settlers. While trades were taking place, there were also other corruptions taking place on mauri land. Violent inter-tribal wars exacerbated by introduction of muskets brought and traded by europeans. Rumor that french planned to colonize the area. Signed in 1840 founding document of new zealand which established the building of the nation state. Response to settlement in the 1830s, commercial interest, and interest in the territory by the french. British authorities stressed benefits to maori and downplayed the new so(cid:448)e(cid:396)eig(cid:374)t(cid:455) b(cid:396)itish (cid:449)ould ha(cid:448)e o(cid:448)e(cid:396) (cid:272)hiefs(cid:859) autho(cid:396)it(cid:455) Maori leaders signed a translated maori language version which had be translated from british (even though many of them could not read) In may, 1840, the british declared sovereignty over new zealand.