Hurumanu 1 Work week 4 

Kia ora bloggers this post today is about My work in hurumanu 1/ Reading and social studies. We have to read this text that has multiple texts in the one I am going to be reading is Parihaka. This work is based on protests. 

Part of my work is to complete three activities from the bingo taskboard.

Q1. What is the main idea from the text: The Main Idea from this text is where the Maori get their land taken off them by the new Europeans and even though they get shot and some die the don't fight back with violence the peacefully protest some would sit in front of there house or village and not move even when being threatened. Some times when the Europeans came to their village the kids would greet them with food and they would get killed but still, The Maori would not fight back.

Q2. Interesting facts:  Parihaka was a Māori settlement in Taranaki around the 1860s when New Zealand was a British colony, and land was being divided up and given to European settlers. Māori leaders Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi encouraged the people of Parihaka to defend their land by peaceful methods.

Q3. What I learned: I learned that during the Parihaka protests that they did not use any violence towards the Europeans treated them really badly and killed most of their people. They showed how we can peacefully protest even though the other side uses violence.

As part of this work, I have to choose one of the protests I agree with. From what protests I have read I agree with the Parihaka with their peaceful protest and how they tried to save their land without using violence. I also agree with the woman protesting for their voting rights as they should have a right on who is the big boss of New Zealand.