I might had a Mikey Co pepper on the couch caught the mother tongue at the Copa poor dear darling do you know about the Declaration of Independence our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and slavery just kind of a bummer not that one egg Abe Lincoln was talking about the American Declaration of Independence I'm talking about it's like a flute owner or to identity that when we've teed in me the Declaration of Independence of the United tribes of New Zealand in 1835 five years before the treaty City for Northland annotator signed an agreement with the British crown basically it was agreed that Monday and sovereignty in New Zealand remained with Marty but they could only trade with the British Marty would keen to sign and be friends with the British because earlier encounters with the French had been a bit stabby it was actually quite amazing that this rangatira came together to be united because at that point in history there was no National Maori identity none of the Chiefs even had authority over larger II we everyone lived in smaller hapu extended family groups in fact the name Maori comes from Tonga to Maori which simply means normal or human being noble savage what are you what race are you attend a tomaría hurt Maori Maori Maori Maori I say I've discovered the Maori the Declaration of Independence was signed in the home of James Busby the British resident in New Zealand like the King's homeboy he was sent here because 13 Ngapuhi rangatira had written to the British king and asked for protection from all these other countries that were coming over here and missing with this soon after James Busby arrived he decided that we needed a flag not another flag debate trading ships from New Zealand were getting seized by customers in Australia because they weren't sailing under a recognized flag so James Busby invited $25 to DES in their followers to choose a flag figurine that would help unite them so they could form a government down the line they all voted and the winner was wasted up the flagpole at Waitangi now they went yeah then on the 28th of October 1935 James Busby took one step further and had everyone sign the Declaration of Independence here's research and historian Aloha Harris to tell us more about the Declaration of Independence the declarations got four main points in it which with describe is the purpose and one is to make what I describe is a statement of the obvious which is that Marty declared themselves to give the manner that I noted at Unga over the country secondly it said that New Zealand was an independent country under the authority of the United tribes of New Zealand they agreed that they would meet that they took a congressional approach and that they would meet annually to frame laws and make regulations for the country and lastly it agreed to see the copy to the king to say thanks for proving the flag and also to ask him to act as their protector should their authority in for any reason there was also a codasyl which was a bit added later to acknowledge the eighteen gang at either that signed it but that weren't there on the day including to fiddle fiddle the first Maori came from my cattle so considering the Treaty of Waitangi was signed five years later what did the Declaration actually mean well in some ways not much changed after the signing of the Declaration Marty were able to trade and in legal terms because they had a flag because they had expressed their anger to the tongue in the declaration that had had to be addressed when the treaty came along in 1840 annexed by the Confederation and Maori tribes as actually and you know mentioned and the treaty because the goal is to have the people who signed the Declaration then sign the treaty however such a document can only be revoked if the same people signed the Declaration and the Treaty of Waitangi some Chiefs who signed the Declaration did not find the Treaty of Waitangi including the mighty king defeat ephyra was a really good example because he actually refused to sign the treaty but he did sign the Declaration and then there are a few other Madhi for example some of the Marty from the phone at all area who signed the declaration didn't sign totality even though we know that they would have been available to scientists Elysee and we're not really sure why you know is it because they preferred the declaration and what the declaration had to say or is there some other reason that we're not aware of it's well documented that the Marty and parka have versions of the treaty are different the English version gave Queen Victoria sovereignty over the whole country the sovereignty of a whole country is not a concept that existed for Maori let alone a word that describes the nerdy English bureaucracy that goes with it if I could put summer haze the deep meaning in the North because it was a very much a northern thing and because they have argued recently for example that territory was not a session of sovereignty they kind of rest on he put on there because of its statement of sovereignty versus a session of sovereignty whether that has legal sway well maybe when the tribunal issues its next report for the north we might get some analysis of it in 1845 after William Hobson replaced this awesome flag with this flag now poor hearin it said oh honey Hickey cut down the flagpole in white honey signaling the beginning of what we now know as the New Zealand Wars the rest as they say is history but whose history you know what I mean the declaration here putana is currently being exhibited alongside a version of utility of Waitangi and the 1893 women's suffrage petition at the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington so if you're there go have a look did you even know about the Declaration of Independence this book it sounds more fear than the treaty let us know what you think below kikuchiyo yeah koto tere dar madam I'll see you next month's for another episode of Coppa fur 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