Room 17's Thoughts About What People Wanted to get From the Treaty of Waitangi

Room 17’s Thoughts about What People Wanted to Get From the Treaty of Waitangi

Maori	Sealers and Whalers	Settlers and Farmers
Peace Land for the iwi Use of the forests, waterways and land for their farming and to live on Wanted to own their land Have weapons Have the fighting stop Protection Rights to have their land to use it as they had done so before the settlers arrived Technology in the form of tools Education - have schools built Money Animals to farm and eat Keep their ancestral lands Fairness	Trading rights To be allowed to kill seals and whales without being stopped Sell goods that they may have bought Money from the skins, meat and oil To be successful	To create a mini home - England and Scotland Have a fresh start in life Sell their crops Have rights to the land To have a fair trade for the land To have rights to trade and sell their goods Land was cheap for them Set up companies to help buy land
Missionaries and the Church	British Government	Traders and Shopkeepers
The Maori to become Christians To teach the Maori to read and write in English The Maoris to work for them To help the Maori to become more like them	To expand the British empire To exploit the Maori Wanted control of the land Wanted resources Since their people were here, they thought they were in control	To own land Money from their businesses Trading rights Trade guns for meat and flax Sell alcohol Wanted fights to stop as it disrupted their shops Sell their  goods to settlers Make a profit Their shops to be protected

After focusing on the Treaty of Waitangi and reading a range of resources, Room 17 students came up with these ideas about what they thought people living in Aotearoa/New Zealand before 1840, wanting from the Treaty.