1866: Te Kooti sent to Chatham Islands
June 6, 2019
By AHNZ
This week in history: 5 June 1866….
Nothing shows how adverse you are to your brother’s gang cult than associating with them, being taken into custody with them, constructing a new religion for them, leading them in a daring escape from an island prison, and murdering all the defenceless men, women, and children- Settler and Maori- you could find.
But State history still teaches that Te Kooti was an adversary of the Pai Marire, as here.
“On this day in 1866, Te Kooti was deported to the Chatham Islands along with his Pai Mārire adversaries. He and 300 followers would eventually escape, as this journal notes.”- Archives NZ, FB
Why use the word “deported” since Te Kooti was not a foreigner and the Chathams were not another country. They were the site of a New Zealand jail, in fact.
Is this the same emotive language Belich uses in calling it “exile.” There is some other agenda than recording the facts at play here. These men were Prisoners of War (POWs.)
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image ref. AHNZ files
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