1989: Moriori- A People Resurrected
By AHNZ
On 29 December, 1986, Prime Minister David Lange unveiled a life-size statue of the last Moriori, Tommy Solomon, who had died in 1933. He told the crowd that Moriori were not a myth but that “We cannot make them live again, but we can tell the truth about what happened to them.” It was clear, […]
Read more..December 7, 2023
1835: Moriori Comet of Carnage
By AHNZ
Today in New Zealand history, 19 November, 1835, Moriori culture reached the highest point it ever would achieve. Everything was downhill from here. At the same moment, Halley’s Comet also reached its closest point to our sun (perihelion) and so shone its brightest. Captain George Vancouver discovered the Moriori’s home in 1791, calling it the Chatham Islands. […]
Read more..November 19, 2019
1835: The Moriori Genocide
By AHNZ
It is no longer Politically Correct to point out the genocide of the Moriori at the hands of Maori. Worse than that, there is a contradictory narrative now that no such thing happened and if you say otherwise prepare to be burned.. I’m confused. So there were Moriori and they were killed by Maori, or […]
Read more..April 30, 2019
1842: Crown admits failing to stop Maori from ‘enslaving’ Moriori
By AHNZ
Crown (National 5.0) admits failing to stop Maori from ‘enslaving’ Moriori “In 1835 two iwi originally from Taranaki migrated to the Chatham Islands and enslaved Moriori. Following the annexation of the islands to New Zealand in 1842, the Crown failed to take appropriate action to end the enslavement, despite Moriori pleas for relief.- Newshub, 2017 […]
Read more..September 23, 2018
1819: Maori Invasion of Rotuma
By AHNZ
Rotuma is a small island north of Fiji with its own ethnic identity though part of Fiji. By the 1830s it had become a whaling port so English was widely spoken there. The natives were subject to Tongan invasion and civil wars, especially in the 1870s, which were only coloured by the competing Catholic and […]
Read more..February 5, 2024
Maori Are Not The Indigenous People Of New Zealand
By AHNZ
Trust the Australian Associated Press to gate-keep our New Zealand history for us… “A long-held but unsupported claim that Maori are not the indigenous people of New Zealand has resurfaced on social media. The post, made to a Facebook discussion group on November 16, claims that there were “many other races” already living in New […]
Read more..November 10, 2023
1835: Chatham Islands Anschluss
By AHNZ
The Austrian Anschluss of 12 March, 1938, has ominous parallels with the Chatham Islands Anschluss of 18 November, 1835. This German word, anschluss, is the history term for a people with such a toxic level of the Personality Trait of Agreeableness as to give up their sovereign territory. The 1930s Austrians and 1830s Moriori both […]
Read more..September 10, 2023
1863: Martin Crossing the Delaware
By AHNZ
Today in history, 4 September, 1863, a remarkable cultural change was marked in New Zealand history. By the evidence of a brave rescue at Delaware Bay, Nelson, Maoris had transitioned from being a Tragic Society to a Therapeutic Society. In other words, they helped rather than pillaged the needy. That was a very great change […]
Read more..September 4, 2022
1854: New Zealand’s First City, Christchurch
By AHNZ
On 31 July, 1856, Christchurch was first in New Zealand to be qualified as a “city.” Not because it was the eldest or most populated or educated or wealthy or anything of that sort. It was because this most English and Anglican of colonies had great connections with the very English and Anglican Mothership- England. […]
Read more..July 31, 2022
1835: Darwinian’s New Zealand Christmas
By AHNZ
“December 21st [1835] Early in the morning we entered the Bay of Islands, and being becalmed for some hours near the mouth, we did not reach the anchorage till the middle of the day.” So began a Christmas visit of just 9 days which was a dearly bought by the HMS Beagle considering the many […]
Read more..January 17, 2022
1791: The Vancouver Expedition
By AHNZ
At 9pm on Wednesday 2nd November, 1791, Captain George Vancouver’s Expedition anchored at Dusky Sound. They explored, recovered, and interacted with the local Maoris. Vancouver knew the way having been here before under the command of Captain James Cook but this time he was the master and had two ships to command, HMS Chatham and […]
Read more..November 2, 2021
Are We Being Conned By The Treaty Industry?
By AHNZ
How will the mainstream meet this intellectual challenge to received history? Are we being conned by the Treaty Industry is a pamphlet that has been circulated in Wellington and Auckland. Ref. Anti-treaty booklets sent to homes promote ‘racist and backward-looking’ ideas Matthew Tso; Dominion Post, Stuff (Jul 16 2020) Ref. ‘Bull**** in my letterbox’ – […]
Read more..August 9, 2021
