Parihaka

 Hello everyone, this blog post is about Parihaka. Parihaka is basically a peaceful village, there was no fighting. Our task was to learn more about Parihaka and answer the questions that my teacher prepared, like for example 'where is Parihaka located (Answer: Parihaka is located at the North Island)'. We had to answer 13 questions and blog it. 

Here is the work I have done:

1. What events lead up to Parihaka being established?

They established Parihaka for those people who have no where to live, like for example the European people confiscated their land. So they established Parihaka as a peaceful place for everyone to freely live in.

2. What was the ideas behind setting up Parihaka

Their idea to set up Parihaka was to make it peaceful, like no fighting. Just a peaceful place that people can live in. But until when the European soldiers attacked them.

They set up Parihaka for the people who had lost their land/homes.

3. Who established Parihaka?

Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi are both leaders, and both of them established Parihaka and made it a peaceful place. 

4. Where is Parihaka located?

Parihaka is located in the North Island near Plymouth.

5. When did the invasion of Parihaka occur?

About 1600 European troops attacked Parihaka on the 5th of November in 1881. 

6. How do you think the people of Parihaka were feeling when the troops entered their village?

The people of Parihaka were just calm, and it shows how peaceful they were. They greeted the troops and most of them were sitting on the ground, while the childrens were singing and dancing.

7. Do you think stories about the event of 5th November 1881 were reported on by the media at the time?

On the 5th of November the media wasn’t even invented that time, the media was invented in 1920. They didn’t have any television, but there were newspapers. They might have interviewed the european soldiers because the people from Parihaka were sent away and some were imprisoned.

8. How long were Te Whiti and Tohu imprisoned? Where? What did they intend to do when they returned to Parihaka?

Te Whiti and Tohu were imprisoned for about 6 months in Addington Gaol which is located in Christchurch. When Te Whiti and Tohu finally returned they 

9. What was the impact on Maori when the New Zealand Company and other representatives of “The Crown” confiscated or purchased land very cheaply from Maori? What happened to Maori who lost their land.

The Maori people got triggered because the New Zealand Company just bought their land very cheaply. Maori people were expecting the New Zealand Company would pay them with a big amount of money.

10) How do you think the New Zealand wars impacted on iwi and groups of people who were no longer able to live on their whenua?

Maori people might be feeling sad and triggered because they destroyed their spiritual buildings, or like historic places.

11) What does the word PEACE mean to you? What is “passive resistance”? What does the phrase mean?

Peace is like where everyone is just calm, they are not angry. Peace is also like no wars or fights. Passive resistance is like a person who just wants everything peaceful, like non-violent.

12) What other ways are there to solve major issues between people / countries that do not use violence as a way of controlling others or solving problems?

You can solve major problems by actually talking about it, or make some sort of deal that they won't fight anymore.

13) Who are some of the other world leaders who have used passive resistance? What was their cause and how is it peaceful?

Mahatma Ghandi was an Indian lawyer. Gandhi protested to the British people to treat Indian people evenly.

Thank you for reading my blog post, I hope you have learn't something new about Parihaka.

Bye!