Compare He Whakaputanga with Te Tiriti

Concepts

• Perspectives, cultural interactions, intention, interpretation, documents, significance, founding, bicultural, change.

• He Tohu themes: people, place, living together, our future.

What to do

Ask students to consider He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi in terms of:

• the people who signed each document

• the intended meaning of key terms and phrases (for example, rangatiratanga)

• the cultural interactions that led to the creation of each document

• the significance of each document today.

Consider using a Venn diagram for each (people, meanings, interactions, and significance) to help students to compare and contrast He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Some useful resources

Topic Explorer:

• Colonial life in New Zealand

• Māori history post-European arrival

• He Whakaputanga — English

• He Whakaputanga — te reo Māori

• Treaty of Waitangi

• New Zealand history

Archives New Zealand:

• He Whakaputanga

• Who were the rangatira who signed He Whakaputanga?

• The Treaty of Waitangi

New Zealand Curriculum — social sciences

Conceptual strands:

• Identity, Culture, and Organisation

• Place and Environment

• Continuity and Change

Achievement objectives:

• Level 3

• Level 4

• Level 5