in this time of history i’m going to talk about the invasion of the Parihaka,
It all started with a treaty with the settlement of the parihaka and the european. After the treaty was created the Europeans sent About 1600 troops invaded the western Taranaki settlement of Parihaka, which had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Maori land. Now in May 1879 the colonial government moved to occupy fertile land on the Waimate Plains that had been declared confiscated in the 1860s, Te Whiti and Tohu developed tactics of non-violent resistance, Ploughmen from Parihaka fanned out across Taranaki to assert continuing Māori ownership of the land and the government responded with laws targeting the Parihaka protesters and imprisoned several hundred ploughmen without trial.
now we are in the following election in September 1879, the new government announced an enquiry into the confiscations while sending the ploughmen to South Island goals, where some died. a year latter the West Coast Commission recommended creating reserves for the Parihaka people, Meanwhile the government began constructing roads across cultivated land. Men from Parihaka who rebuilt their fences soon joined the ploughmen in detention.
the year is now 1881, this is the year the prisoners are free. After ploughing resumed in July, John Hall’s government decided to act decisively while Governor Sir Arthur Gordon was visiting Fiji.
On 5 November, about 1600 volunteers and Constabulary Field Force troops marched on Parihaka. Several thousand Māori sat quietly on the marae as singing children greeted the force led by Native Minister John Bryce. The Whanganui farmer had fought in the campaign against Tītokowaru (see 9 June) and viewed Parihaka as a ‘headquarters of fanaticism and disaffection’. Bryce ordered the arrest of Parihaka leaders, the destruction of much of the village and the dispersal of most of its inhabitants. The Sim Commission which investigated these events in the 1920s was told that women were raped by troops, with some bearing children as a result. Pressmen, officially banned from the scene by Bryce, were ambivalent about the government’s actions, but most colonists approved of them. Te Whiti and Tohu were detained without trial for 16 months. The government managed to delay for several years the publication in New Zealand of the official documents relating to these events.
by yours truly Ranki