This is from John Ansell’s facebook page. We don’t give facebook traffic, because the Zuckerberg wants us all nicely to converge and encourages anyone who hates the West. But it is accurate for New Zealand. John has more courage than I do: his website drains the left’s hate nicely.

The text of the treaty is simple. This is the English version.

THE TREATY OF WAITANGI

Her Majesty Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland regarding with Her Royal Favor the Native Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and anxious to protect their just Rights and Property and to secure to them the enjoyment of Peace and Good Order has deemed it necessary in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty’s Subjects who have already settled in New Zealand and the rapid extension of Emigration both from Europe and Australia which is still in progress to constitute and appoint a functionary properly authorized to treat with the Aborigines of New Zealand for the recognition of Her Majesty’s sovereign authority over the whole or any part of those islands – Her Majesty therefore being desirous to establish a settled form of Civil Government with a view to avert the evil consequences which must result from the absence of the necessary Laws and Institutions alike to the native population and to Her subjects has been graciously pleased to empower and to authorize me William Hobson a Captain in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy Consul and Lieutenant Governor of such parts of New Zealand as may be or hereafter shall be ceded to Her Majesty to invite the confederated and independent Chiefs of New Zealand to concur in the following Articles and Conditions.
Article the first

The Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand and the separate and independent Chiefs who have not become members of the Confederation cede to Her Majesty the Queen of England absolutely and without reservation all the rights and powers of Sovereignty which the said Confederation of Individual Chiefs respectively exercise or possess, or may be supposed to exercise or to possess over their respective Territories as the sole sovereigns thereof.
Article the second

Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the respective families and individuals thereof the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests Fisheries and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession; but the Chiefs of the United Tribes and the individual Chiefs, yield to Her Majesty the exclusive right of Preemption over such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to alienate at such prices as may be agreed upon between the respective Proprietors and persons appointed by Her Majesty to treat with them in that behalf.
Article the third

In consideration thereof Her Majesty the Queen of England extends to the Natives of New Zealand Her royal protection and imparts to them all the Rights and Privileges of British Subjects.

[signed] W. Hobson Lieutenant Governor

Now therefore We the Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand being assembled in Congress at Victoria in Waitangi and We the Separate and Independent Chiefs of New Zealand claiming authority over the Tribes and Territories which are specified after our respective names, having been made fully to understand the Provisions of the foregoing Treaty, accept and enter into the same in the full spirit and meaning thereof in witness of which we have attached our signatures or marks at the places and the dates respectively specified.

Done at Waitangi this Sixth day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.

I would consider it null and void: the rebellion of Nga Puhi in 1845 and the land wars from 1857 to 1890 meant that the crown conquered any disloyal iwi and then redistributed their land.

Many Maori were loyal to the crown. This is discounted in the post colonial narrative. But then, Social Justice Warriors always lie, and Maori Revisionists are a remarkably stupid subset of these.

How deftly Richard Harman (Race is On, 8 July) models the Left’s five-point Maorification strategy.

First, denigrate. Mock anyone who champions the 80 percent of Kiwis who reject racial favouritism in poll after poll. Cast Don Brash as “an ageing rock star”, Waikanae as “Wellington’s retirement town”, and his audience as “grey-haired baby boomers”. Smugly assume most readers share the leftist’s distaste for my factual observation that whingeing Maori radicals “have gone from the Stone Age to the Space Age in 150 years and haven’t said thanks”.

Second, intimidate. Harman didn’t tell you he spent Brash’s meeting furtively photographing every audience member’s face like a Stasi informant.

Third, invalidate. Frame Brash’s Orewa speech as “notorious”. Forget that 93% of Dominion Post readers applauded it. Frame my Iwi/Kiwi billboard as “controversial”, despite floating voters rating it their favourite of thirteen billboards that won two campaign of the year awards.

Fourth, exaggerate. Harman cites one dissenter as evidence that the billboards were unpopular with National MPs. (Not evident to me when a clapping caucus confirmed post-election that many wouldn’t be in Parliament without them.)

Fifth, fabricate. (Remember when ‘history revision’ meant studying, not muddying?) Trot out the party line that the chiefs retained sovereignty post-Waitangi, cunningly entitling their distant descendants to “specific representation in an increasing number of pieces of legislation and regulation.”

The Treaty specified nothing of the kind, of course – Cultural Marxist revisionist historians, journalists and Maori-vote-grubbing politicians did.

The problem for Maori is that the same vote grubbing politicians have moved from biculturalism and partnership to multiculturalism and the loss of whatever it is that makes any nation unique.

They want us beige. I want us to be Pakeha and Maori. And for New Zealand to be populated by Christian peoples, as both parties who signed the treaty were, and the current lugenpresse are not.