The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 3 – The Treaty of Waitangi + He Whakaputanga (Books 11-16)
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The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 3 – The Treaty of Waitangi + He Whakaputanga (Books 11-16) – by Alison Condon and Gina Taggart, illustrated by Tania Hassounia
The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 3 – The Treaty of Waitangi + He Whakaputanga is designed for 8 + year olds.
Series 3 follows the events leading up to, during and following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. This is New Zealand’s untold story.
This series begins with the extraordinary changes in thinking that took place in Britain during the abolition of the slave trade. This thinking, combined with the request from Māori for British intervention in New Zealand, created a truly remarkable event. A treaty was put in place, that contrary to past British practices, sought to protect the land and rights of indigenous people.
This series of children’s books follows the events that took place from the time of the slave trade through to the week leading up to the signing of the Treaty. It then skips through time describing what happened over the following decades.
The stories outline the immense disappointment experienced by Māori as the high ideals of the Treaty were ignored. They then go on to describe the land march led by Dame Whina Cooper which helped bring the disregard for New Zealand’s founding document to the nation’s attention and conscience.
The stories conclude with a look at how the treaty injustices have been addressed in recent years as New Zealand works to right the wrongs of the past.
Book 11: Te Rerenga – The Pathway
Book 12: Te Wiki – The Week
Book 13: Te Hui – The Meeting
Book 14: Te Tohu – The Signing
Book 15: Te Nanu – The Disappointment
Book 16: He whakaputanga – The Declaration of Independence
This book is a ‘prequel’ to the Treaty series. Big changes are afoot for the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. European whalers and sealers have begun camping along the beaches. Māori are quick to recognise new prospects for trade — and at first the future looks promising. However, as more and more settlers arrive, challenges begin to arise regarding land and the disregard of Māori tikanga. Māori chiefs begin to meet to manage these changes. After 25 years of meeting together a document is prepared called He Whakaputanga. This document declares the independence of the chiefs and is designed to secure their future — and was to become a foundation stone that would make Te Tiriti o Waitangi possible. The story is sourced from both written history, and also oral history that came to light in the Ngāpuhi Waitangi Tribunal discussions. It tells of the Confederation of Chiefs who worked together to navigate more than 20 years of early settler activity, culminating in: He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tīreni (The Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand).
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About the team who created this series of books:
Dave Mann When he discovered that there were positive stories from the early bicultural years in Aotearoa, he was surprised. Despite some tertiary studies on things-Maori in the early 1990s, he’d never heard many of these stories. They were largely untold. In his words, “Every nation needs positive stories from its early years. They are essential as a basis for positive national identity. While our failures need open admission, it makes no sense that we don’t also know these positive stories; of those who tried to stop colonisation, as one example!” This awareness caused Dave to seek a team who could help to make some of these stories known — stories of some of our nation’s great early bicultural ancestors — whether Māori or Pākehā, male or female. In Dave’s view, this is an approach which gives rise to an attitude of hope in bicultural things.
Alison Condon is a trained primary school teacher and a part-time farmer. She is an internationally published author and has written both fiction and non-fiction works. She has enjoyed seeing over thirty children’s stories, short stories, articles and poems published. Alison has found ‘The Chronicles of Paki’ to be her most challenging and rewarding writing project to date.
The ‘Chronicles of Paki’ series is Gina Taggart’s first venture into published writing. Her interest in the relationship between Māori and the missionaries in the 1800s developed when she realised that many New Zealanders misunderstood the impact of the Gospel on New Zealand’s history. As a Christian, she felt this shortfall could be addressed by writing about the history at a level that children could comprehend, helping New Zealanders better understand their own fascinating story.
Tania Hassounia is a New Zealand illustrator and entrepreneur. The Chronicles of Paki are Tania’s first published set of books, combining her love of drawing with the theme of faith and encouragement.
Eddie Booth is a self taught artist, graphic designer who ran his own graphic design business and has been involved with many interesting illustration projects.
Each series available at Poi Princess:
The Chronicles of Paki – Junior series
The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 1
The Chronicles of – NZ’s untold story: Paki Series 2
The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 3 – The Treaty of Waitangi + He Whakaputanga
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