More and more europeans began to come to New Zealand after Cook's expedition. The really first europeans to come to New Zealand was whale and seal chasers, and some missionaries who wanted the maoris to concert to Christianity but the british would have some resistance from the maoris who resisted fiercely. For the first time in history New Zealand became a british colony in 1840 when the agreement The treaty of Waitanghi was signed which said that the british Queen Victoria now is the Queen of New Zealand to but it also said that the maoris owned their own lands and with this treaty the british hopen they might could bring some peace to the maoris. But some british settlers didn't respect the treaty of Waitanghi and that took land areas from the maoris and they muredered the maoris. But the maoris would fight back and also kill many british. But at last in 1881 the british won the war and the maoris were defeated and the maoris also lost their human rights.
Today the maoris should have the same human rights as everyone else in the society when the Government passed a law passed oppositioned to discrimination. But many maoris do still today don't have jobs and there's a higher unemployment among the maoris then among the british and the white people. But their language and cultures is still alive in New Zealand cause of the maoris big determination to keep traditions alive. Three years after the the law against discrimination was signed in 1974 the first school who taught pupils both English and Maori and today there's hundreds of Māori pre- schools. And 13 years after the school was opened in 1987 then maori was also an official language just as English and there were radio and television shows in Māori and some programmes in Māori.
If you compare the native people in New Zealand to the native people in Sweden then you've got some similarities. The wikings who lived in houses made of mud and they also used swords, short clubs and so on. But the wikings didn't believe in the same gods as the Maoris did, and one more big similarity between the maoris and the wikings is that the wikings sailed all over the world and they were nomads as the maoris but the maoris did also discover some New lands where they could settle on New Zealand. One more similarity between the maoris and the wikings is that the wikings also made some jewelleries but maybe not exactly the same as the maoris. One difference between the maoris and the wikings is that the maoris ate different kind of food in comparison to the wikings, the maoris ate dolphins, seals, and mammals but the wikings didn't ate that kind of food. And the reason to why the wikings didn't ate these animals is that the climate wasn't warm enough for dolphins or seals. And one difference is that the Māori tradition is still alive in New Zealand today than the traditions the wikings had that tradition is not existing anymore. One more difference is that Māori is also an official language in New Zealand but the language the wikings used is not an official language in Sweden without swedish is an official language in Sweden. And if you compare this with other countries like Australia were the Aborigines were the native people they also were nomads and moved around to search for food, they used the same kinds of "weapons" as the maoris do today but one big difference is that they propably had different traditions. But the aborigines did also tattoo themselves as the maoris and one big similarity between the aborigines, the indians and the maoris is that they were after that the british won all these wars then all the native people was treated very badly by the british. And some similarities between the indians and the maoris is that the indians also used the same kind of "weapons" as the maoris did. They did also have a special language as the maoris did but the indian language is not official in North or Southamerica as the maori language is today. The indians lived in tents but the aborigines lived in shelters and that's one big difference. The maoris did also live in shelters. And one last similar thing is that the aborigines, the maoris, and the indians are still trying to make their traditions and cultures alive in the society we've got today.
I think it quiet exciting to see which traditions the maoris are using Carved bones, and precious Stones to make jewelleries to put on their canoes and houses. I also think it's very facinating to see why they called New Zealand Aotearoa the white long cloud . I also think it's a little bit weird that the maoris ate mammals, seals, and dolphins but they propably liked it and I never mind to eat it's just that i haven't ate it before. But I think it was quiet stupid from the maoris to cut through their skin which must hurt very much so I would never try to make tattoos on myself. I think it would be fun to just try to have some kind of oldfashioned weapons and I like that you use what you've got from the nature as the maoris did, they propably do care about the nature very much. It was really good that the New Zealand Government realised that the maoris would be treated fairly, and as a really good compensation which meant that every kind of discrimination is against a law which the New Zealand Government passed in 1971. But I don't like that the unemployment is much higher among the maoris than among the british and it just shows that even if it's written that something should be in one way. Then it doesn't mean it's like that in the reality. But one think I is really stunning and that is that the maoris still are extremly determined to keep their traditions and cultures alive in the multicultural society they've got in New Zealand. And as an award for that in 1974 there came schools were the teachers taught in Māori and in English. And the best of all was that the Maori became an official language in 1987 so those pupils who can't speak English could talk Māori with other people instead.
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