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Dear Mr Hollis… so I did some research on my topic and I have finally concluded r… the Taranaki wars were a big misunderstanding!
ReplyDeleteIn fact no Taranaki war ever took place. This minor glitch in History sprung from a misfortunate typo in the documenting of our past. The flaw in history boils down to a certain Historian forgetting the T at the end of war… yes in fact… the so-called Taranaki wars was actually ‘the Taranaki Warts’.
It is unclear where the epidemic came from. However once the warts took hold there was no stopping them. By the late 1850’s the entirety of the Taranaki Te Ati Awa tribe had obtained the warts. There was a mixture of dismay and awe at the new illness. Maori believed that perhaps the British settlers would have the knowledge and ability to heal them.
However the British were mortified by the species of wart. They immediately declared that the Maori be banished from the Waitara block to eradicate the threat of the warts spreading to the settler population.
The Maori however were angered by the British reaction and refused.
As British were sent to the Waitara block to sterilise it a band of Te Ati Awa intercepted the exterminators who fled back to the confinements of New Plymouth.
In the following months the Maori built a series of Pas in which they quarantined themselves. However as the Warts overwhelmed each Pa the tribe was forced to move on, constructing new innovative isolation units using trenches.
The British underestimated the effectiveness of the Maori Pa to protect them from the Warts. As the settler’s doubts turned in to redoubts they called in two GPs (general practitioners) by the names of Gold and Pratt. Pratt and Gold instructed the settlers to build a number of redoubts and saps as protection. However the GPs practise was critisised by many of the people who lost faith in the treatment and Pratt and Gold lost their titles as ‘practitioners’ and were subsequently known as General Pratt and General Gold.’
As 1861 rolled by the situation remained dire. News of the Warts had travelled far and wide, reaching the ears of a certain Wiremu Tamehana in the Waikato. It just so happened that Tamehana was a wart expert, specialising in that particular species of wart. He took to the Taranaki and cured the ailing Te Ati Awa of their wart affliction. He negotiated with the British settlers who cautiously began venturing beyond the town’s boundaries. However the warts had taken their toll. Many of the crops, livestock and produces was lost to the unrelenting warts. The mortality rate was high. The warts had struck a mighty blow and had created hostility and fear between the British and the Maori.
… and that…is the unveiling of a lost chapter in history.
Hi Mr Hollis.
ReplyDeletesorry im just writing to you to apologise but i wont be able to hand in my booklet tomorrow.
I have worked on it this evening and it is complete...and i will give it to you first thing monday morning. My mum is away at the moment and my dad and brother are both very sick. I need to look after my brother..he is autistic and needs a lot of care.
sorry...
hope you'll accept it Monday morning.
skye
How bizarre... Was "skye" even a student last year? I'm amazed he's devoted so much time and effort into this.
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