Question 1: What impression do you get about Māori history and sexuality from your chosen text?: The impression I get from my chosen text is that Maori were a lot more lenient about sexuality and relationships then the Europeans were, and that in their culture the Maori’s chose to allow more things as long as people kept to the simple rules such as Puhi only allowing one husband and that children born outside of marriage were still part of the tribe.
Question 2: What is something you found interesting about your chosen text?: Something I found interesting was that Maori did not seem to mind about same sex marriages and that they seemed to endorse it. this is shown when Reverend Yate was sent back to England for having sexual relations with a man, the Maori people did not seem to mind in the slightest.
Question 3: How does reading / hearing your chosen text change your view of Māori history & sexuality?: Reading this changed my view as a expected the Maori people to have the same or similar beliefs about relationships and sexuality as the Europeans when in reality they had pretty much the opposite and believed in very different things when it came to that topic.
From what you have read, how might the Hāuora of Māori have been impacted with the arrival of European settlers?While there is no real evidence, I believe that it might have affected the Maori tribes in a negative way as European settlers may have forced their beliefs onto the Maori people making them abandoned their beliefs and changed the way they viewed their own culture, this could cause a negative impact in all areas of Hauora as it would have hurt the mindset, change their spiritual beliefs and pried them apart from the whanau and sexual partners