This book is mostly about How the first world war change things for Maori. This week I have been reading Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu by Monty Soutar.
So it all started when not all Maori felt the same about the war. So some iwi, in places like Taranaki and Waikato, had a very different attitude towards the war. Fifty years earlier, the government had attacked their tupuna and took most of their land. These iwi were still deeply unhappy about what had happened. Generation had growing up seeing their land used by other people. This cartoon was published in a New Zealand newspaper in 1915 to
encourage Maori to sign up for war.
My favorite part was, I learnt that A few maori had birth certificates, which meant that they could lie about their ages to go to war. You had to been 18 but Maori lied about their ages and said they were 18.The interesting part for me was when the government attacked their tupuna and called them rebels.
Have you been reading?
