5/06/26

Impression: from the text, I get the clear impression that traditional Maori views about sexuality were very different, more open and had clear rules compered to the strict ideas from Europeans had back then. In Maori society, sexuality was a natural part of life and culture. We know most poeple, relationships before marriage were totally fine and brought no shame at all or bas reputation. But, once married staying faithful to a partner was taken seriously and fully expected. 

Interesting point: I found it really interesting because of how there such a clear difference between expectations before and after marriage. Going back to the past, Europeans believed people, especially most of women, should be pure with no relationships before marriage, but anything else were wrong or shameful. Going back to Maori culture, Maori rules were quiet different, habing partners before marriage eas accepted and was never hurt a person’s reputation or character. Yet, once got married, loyaly and fauthfulness were strictly required, they did have not have “no rules”, with their own special ideas about relationship that made sense in their own culture. 

Changed view: Before reading about Maori history and sexuality, I only knew a little about Maori history, mostly lands and wars, enever though about relationship ideas were similar everywhere or European ways were just too high standard. The text changes my view completely, and now I understand Maori had their own complete, rich set of beliefs about love before even Europens arrived. I now understand their way just as meaningful, orginized, and respectful as others, it was just simple different for me. I now have much more respect for how Maori had their own full, working styles of life and all respectful values. 

Attitudes and Values: The text shows that Maori accepted relationships without shame, unlike Europeans who viewed all things as wrong. However, strick faithfulness was highly values and required for Maori once married. Status alos showed that expectations-puhi (high ranking women) followed different rules for political marriages, and the chiefs were having multiple views that were very normal for Maori society that Europeans didn’t accepted but Europeans. 

• From what I have read, the arrival settlers impacted Maori Hauora (wellbeing) in both short-term and long term part, and with both negative and positve effects. In short term, bad impacts came with new rules that shaming Maori people their traditional ways, causing confusion and loss of identity, with long term, the harm was greater, as old values were faded and social ideas weakened. Yet, positively, Maori were able to adapt to revive and to restore their strenghts and wellbeing. 

Kia ora koutou katoa, Today I am here with another blog post about Maori history and sexuality, I have learnt about this before in Year 9, but I didn’t quite remember what the work was like, but I do know for sure that my mum and dad have done this before.

The most interesting fact about Maori history and sexuality is that, When Europeans arrived in Aotearoa for the first time they found out that views Maori of sexuality were different from Western ideas of the time. Maori chiefs would often have more than one wife {that’s a true fact} Expect for Ngapuhi {high- born women set aside for a political marriage}, sex before marriage carried no stigma.

These are the most interesting facts I have ever learnt.

Nga mihi!

What impression do you get about Māori history and sexuality from your chosen text?

From the text I have read I now have the impression that Māori people had different ideas about relationships than Europeans did.

This text has made me think about how people from different cultures can have different beliefs and ways of living.

What is something you found interesting about your chosen text?

I found that Māori people were more relaxed about relationships to be really interesting because it was different from what Europeans believed.

I was shocked to read that European explorers were surprised by Māori customs because they were very different from their own.

What stood out to me the most was how European ideas changed Māori life. This was because it showed how cultures can affect each other.

How does reading/hearing your chosen text change your view of Māori history and sexuality?

After reading my chosen text, my opinion has changed due to learning that Māori and Europeans had different beliefs about relationships.

Although informative, my opinion has changed because I did not know Māori had different customs before Europeans arrived.

What are some different attitudes and values related to sexuality that are talked about in the text?

Two attitudes and values that connect to what the text says about Māori beliefs about sexuality are that relationships were seen as normal and people were not judged as much.

Two attitudes and values that connect to what the text says about European beliefs about sexuality are that marriage was very important and there were stricter rules about relationships.

From what you have read, how might the Hauora of Māori have been impacted with the arrival of European settlers?

When the Europeans arrived in New Zealand the Hauora of Māori may have changed due to new beliefs and rules being introduced. This is because Māori had to adjust to a different way of life.

The Taha Hinengaro of Māori may have changed when the Europeans arrived due to people feeling confused or worried about the changes.

Although uncertain, the Hauora of Māori may have changed because some new things were helpful, but some traditional Māori customs were lost.

Kia ora bloggers, Today in health we read about Maori sexual history, after reading the text I got the impression that women were highly valued in Maori culture and were not judged based on how many partners they had. This text made me think about how unique Maori History was.

I found the fact that no matter how many partners they had it had no detriment to their character until they got married after which they couldn’t have any other partner, which is quite similar to modern culture.                                      Reading this was quite intriguing considering that this may be where the idea stemmed from to europe.

After I read the text I realised that Maori were not that much different in the way they viewed sexuality and sex in general. The arrival of Europeans and Christianity would have changed the way they viewed having pre-marital sex or even having multiple partners.

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

Talofa and welcome back to my blog.

In health we have been learning about Maori health and Sexuality. This unit required us to read about the Maori past and learn about how Maori people understood sexuality back then. I learnt many different interesting facts but one I found most interesting was that Maori believed that women were allowed to have many lovers but once she got married no one was allowed to touch her. I found this interesting as it is quite similar to what we do now which shows that this Maori tradition has lasted all these years. Another reason would be because I read in the text that early European settlers weren’t really used to this idea, and it taught them the lesson not to touch married women.

Hello everyone,

This week was Samoan week and we were studying all about Tonga. Today, I created a My Map on google about the different places in Tonga. So here is my link. (LINK) 

Yesterday, we also created a flag about freedom! So, again. Here is my link. (LINK) 

The day before yesterday, we also created Tongan art. Unfortunately. I don’t have a photo of it. But just know, I did it.

Hello today we were learning about circuits and I decided to shear it with you!

The resister in the circuit will slow down the current of the wire/electrons and it will make the light bulb lighter and not shine that brightly. But you can change how much the resister resists and slows down the current of the electrons if you bring it closer and closer to the opposite way it was originally the light bulb with become dimmer and dimmer until it stops producing light.

I hope this explanation helped you learn something, bye.

Hello guys welcome back to another one of my blogs. Today’s blog I am telling you about European imperialism and I will be telling you about what I have learned and what I enjoyed about learning it this term.

This term I  have been learning about what European Imperialism is. European imperialism is something where it was mainly focus about the Europeans and imperialism means when a powerful country takes control of other countries for either land, power, resources or money. We were learning about what European countries wanted to imperialism other countires and why. I think this is a very important topic to be learning at school because there are always things going on in the world that you might not be aware of, as this was all like in the 19th century or something but still it could be useful to know in the future. I’m not sure if I will use this topic in the future for anything but I might but who knows.

This topic doesn’t really make me think differently maybe I would think and look at a different way at a certain country but other than  that I’m not sure how  feel about all the taking over countries and everything. Learning about this topic these past few weeks have been interesting and it has been pretty easy to learn. I think the next thing I would like to learn is about Hitler, I think we are learning about World War 2 next for social studies.

Thank you so much for reading my blog and I hope you have a good day.

The text made me think about how the Europeans changed the Maori’s perspective on sexuality and what is the reason behind changing it, and one thing I found interesting about the text was that Maori has more of a open attitude towards sexuality before the Europeans arrived. For instance, sex before marriage was generally accepted and children born outside marriage were still fully accepted to the tribe and on their whanaus.

Reading this text changed my view of Maori history and sexuality because it showed me that Maori had their own beliefs, practices and relationships before the Europeans arrived.

What impression do you get about Māori history and sexuality from your chosen text?

Answer:
From the text I have read, I now have the impression that Maori views about sexuality were much more open than European views when Europeans first arrived in New Zealand.

This text has made me think about how colonisation changed many Maori beliefs and traditions.

Evidence:

“Sex before marriage carried no stigma.”
Maori accepted children born outside marriage as part of the tribe.
What is something you found interesting about your chosen text?

Answer:
I found the information about same-sex relationships to be really interesting because it showed that Māori communities were often accepting of them.

I was shocked to read that some Māori people did not see same sex relationships as wrong because this was very different from European beliefs at the time.

What stood out to me the most was how open Māori were about sexuality compared to Europeans.

Evidence:

Reverend William Yate’s relationship was accepted by the Maori community but not by European missionaries.
How does reading/hearing your chosen text change your view of Maori history and sexuality?

Answer:
After reading my chosen text, my opinion has changed because I learned that traditional Maori beliefs about sexuality were more accepting than I thought.

Although informative, my opinion has changed because I now understand that many strict ideas about sexuality came from European influence rather than Māori culture.

Evidence:

Missionaries encouraged the belief that sex should only happen between a married man and woman.
What are some different attitudes and values related to sexuality that are talked about in the text?

Answer:
Two attitudes and values that connect to what the text says about Maori beliefs about sexuality are acceptance and respect. Maori accepted sex before marriage and children born outside marriage.

Two attitudes and values that connect to what the text says about European beliefs about sexuality are marriage and strict morality. Europeans believed sex should only happen within marriage.

Evidence:

“Sex before marriage carried no stigma.”
Missionaries promoted sexuality only within marriage.
From what you have read, how might the Hauora of Maori have been impacted with the arrival of European settlers?

Answer:
When the Europeans arrived in New Zealand, the Hauora of Maori may have changed because missionaries brought new beliefs about sexuality and tried to change Maori customs.

The Taha Hinengaro (mental and emotional wellbeing) of Maori may have changed because people were encouraged to stop following some traditional beliefs.

The Taha Wairua (spiritual wellbeing) of Maori may have changed because traditional carvings, waiata, and karakia were altered or censored.

Although uncertain, the Hauora of Maori may have changed in both positive and negative ways. Maori were introduced to new ideas, but some important cultural traditions were also lost.

Evidence:

Sexual organs in carvings were covered or removed.
Waiata and karakia were often censored by Europeans.