Maori Reparations: video worksheets, differentiated.

This film discusses reparations between the British Crown and the Māori people, due to loss of life, land, and livelihood, since the arrival of Europeans. Could the US learn from this model, and apply it to Native Americans and descendants of enslaved people? The film covers: the Māori people and their original relationship to the land; their population decimated by the arrival of Europeans. Loss of land. The 1835 Declaration of Independence. 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi Treaty. Serious discrepancies in Māori and English versions. Governor William Hobson, coercive land purchases. Māori Wars and further land confiscation. Revisionist views of the Treaty of Waitangi as sovereignty by consent. Māori people’s life-chances compared to European New Zealanders. Urbanization of Māori people, similarities with Black Americans and Native Americans. Māori protests informed by US Civil Rights movements; the Land March of 1975. Whina Cooper. “Not one more acre.” The Treaty of Waitangi Act of 1975, the Waitangi Tribunal. British Crown makes settlements and apologies. Controversy and criticism of some settlements. Could this be a model for the US? 2009 Senate apology for enslavement and Jim Crow.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “What New Zealand can teach us about reparations”.

26 questions for the 26-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Good subtitles, typed in by a human, not auto-generated nonsense. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc and .pdf of all sheets, link to film on all sheets.