Episode 79: 'The Elizabeth Affair, Takapuneke', Part 3

[@rogerevans7119]

Brilliantly presented and told Kiwicodger. Prior to this I only knew of the Elizabeth affair as a brief and dry account of early contact interaction, but your detailed presentation brings the characters and the story to life. Well done. 5 November. One cannot help but note the date, and the similarity to the oftentold events at Parihaka fifty one years later, where raiding soldiers overran a peaceful kainga and slaughtered its inhabitants. Parallel that story with the little told narrative of the overthrow of Takapuneke kainga- the bloodshed, the rape, the slaughter- and the added ritual of kaitangata. Human nature is the same regardless. The story of Te Rauparaha and Ngati Toa is very well told by Tom o' Connor in his trilogy beginning with "Tides of Kawhia"- a real insight into pre-European intertribal conflict and its segue into the Musket Wars with the advent of new weaponry and the advantages it brought to those who held the most guns. We often think of the Musket Wars as triggered (bad pun) by the appearance of muskets, but in reality they only provided the crescendo to intertribal vendetta, and its ultimate denouement. Your videos bring the narratives of history alive, dont stop making them. Kia ora.

[@terrybrown1707]

Learning so much history

[@gd5066]

Amazing story and storyteller.

[@kiwicodger]

Part 4 will be in the New Year.

[@stephens2850]

This is excellent and important work you are doing. Thank you !

[@Byndle6969]

New Zealand history goes hard 👀👌💯

[@kiwicodger]

NZ history does go hard!

[@blaircorkran7309]

Excellent as per normal Kiwi Codger. Great visuals to help with the narration.

[@brendanryan6740]

brutal ...compelling

[@archamedesgadafi7181]

This was brilliant thank you

[@tehydro315]

More content please 🙏

[@kiwicodger]

Apologies...it is coming...

[@rogerevans7119]

@@kiwicodger can't wait, but I will because good things take time. Looking forward to it.

[@nzkiwi1a]

Excellent story telling and well researched. Graphics continue to get better all the time. Can't wait for Part 4. Love your work. Thanks.

[@kiwicodger]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@vwxyz0002]

Yet another success in both relating the event and backing it with graphics. Champion!

[@peterthepakeha2799]

Once again excellent 👌

[@kiwicodger]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@rodneyblundell2312]

What could be possible with Shortland Streets budget!

[@kiwicodger]

Musket Wars would make a great series....

[@matthewfisher-u6l]

hi kiwi codger is everything alright? havn't heard from part 4 yet have we? I hope u in good health? aroha Matt

[@kiwicodger]

Hi Matt, I have been slack with the episodes as have been doing some live streaming of sports, which is starting to expand and soak up my time but I am enjoying the technical challenges. I am in Aussie doing it this weekend...however I will commit to getting Part 4 out before March. I have done the script, just the animations /3D to do. Aroha KiwiC

[@kiwicodger]

Re comment of 6 days ago...things aren't shaping up for me to get part 4 out by March 1st. But rest assured it is on the way.

[@willardnzcpfc3433]

@@kiwicodgerGlad to hear all is well, I was wondering similar... I'm looking forward to part 4....one of my marae is at Onuku, the other Koukourarata, so I've taken a particular interest in this history.....most interesting.

[@warrenjohnknight.9831]

The ancient military tactics, stealth by devastating concepts. Great mind's of the tribes leadership, one thing I find that iwi were truly great leadership.

[@stephens2850]

Do you happen to know how many Moari tribes came to an end during the Musket Wars?

[@kiwicodger]

Hi Stephen, thank you for your kind words. Re Iwi that no longer exist in a meaningful way, Ron Crosby in his book names a few, the only one I remember is Ngati Ira, who occupied the Wellington area, but after multiple assaults by Ngati Toa/Ngapuhi and then a final push by Te Rauparaha, they ceased to exist, the small remnants scattered to other tribes where they were assimilated.

[@benrobertson7855]

Always great.thanks.and agree your graphics are getting better.but your drone footage is amazing,really enjoy that!.

[@kiwicodger]

Thank you too!

[@Maori-weaponry]

Your the man bro I love watching your content ❤ 🔥🔥🔥

[@kiwicodger]

I appreciate that

[@ruthlessgaming3869]

100th like

[@torqingheads]

Quite a history about the Maori - put the Inca's or the Aztecs to shame in degeneration. Outcast from the Cook Islands during the 13th century as weaker primitive Neolithic people by later waves of Polynesians (Maori were from the original wave of primitive Polynesians pushed right out across the Eastern Pacific by successive stronger more advanced groups arriving from the west). They were outcast on rafts and some floated to the North East Coast of NZ driven by the South Equatorial Current and were stranded for 500 years. The weaker were pushed down to the South Island or Chathams etc. So the South Island Maori (had their own language) were the weakest of the weak. They were captured and eaten as 'Slave flesh' by the northern Maori doing raids. (Well they all ate each other - 80% of Maori pre European were dark skinned easily fattened slaves farmed and eaten by a lighter skinned 'Ariki' thin wiry elite royal caste). So it was with some righteousness as well as British cunning that they armed the southern Maori who then with muskets launched a genocidal war on the north.. That plus measles & flu halved the Maori population and removed most of the elite. The British then liberated the slaves and outlawed cannibalism. The northern Maori fought with the British against the south bad west Maori 'rebels'. The Maori sued for peace and a treaty was signed that removed all sovereignty and made them subjects to the English crown where the English would protect them from each other. Land could only be sold to or via the Crown. Maori could live on their reservations with native custom but none did. The treaty of Waitangi is strikingly clear in that the Maori cede sovereignty completely and become citizens of Great Britain - all 3 clauses lock that in. Nothing in today's 'Maori' culture is authentic. The music - all European (Maoris did not have tonal music, the songs are missionary tunes or introduced - Poi dance is from Islands and Stick dance from old Malaya. The carvings and art - all European - Arabesques that was the fashion at the time. Original Maori had limited dash carving and no painting of objects. No written language - all the syntax & grammar plus vowel inflection is European. No technology - some lagoon canoes and wood or stone Neolithic tools. No food sources - like pigs or crops - they left that all behind, all they had was a weak inbred fox (now extinct), some rats and a weak dismal pacific yam. They ate out all the bird-life including 10 species of Moa and 46 other bird species, didn't know how to farm the sea as were island people and so they turned to societal cannibalism. Today - no full blood or half blood left. No genuine tradition and almost all are offspring of Maori slave females sold to white settlers for muskets or food. -So more fake than the 'Sioux' or 'Cherokee' or 'Crow' who had at least retained some genuineness about who they were and their history. -Everything you 'saw or experienced' is fake. A totally convected disneyfied tokenistic set of inventions fueled by a grievance culture of mixed-race imposters fetishing a false past bad history because it pays benefits. 'This Horrid Practice' - Professor Paul Moon, "A Savage Country" Professor Paul Moon 'Behind The Tattooed Face' - Heretaunga Pat Baker, 'Anthropology In The South Seas' - H D Skinner

[@slamyourheadin9449]

Was listening till I heard no full blooded Māoris left…. That is a lie. How many times do Maori have to say this?