Why or why not?

Treaty Of Waitangi ...

Some people believe that Waitangi day is a day of combining together as one whanau to celebrate the day when our tupuna agreed to sign the New Zealand treaty that consists of creating peace between the british settlers and native Maaori’s. Others like Mike Hosking who is a radio broadcaster in Aotearoa, believe otherwise. He says that why bother celebrating this time or day of the year, when we’ve done the absolute opposite of what was said in the treaty. I understand where he’s coming from, but I think to celebrate a memorable day like Aotearoa’s Waitangi day is an important day to celebrate, because what if there was no treaty. If you think about it, what would it be like if the Maori and British didn’t settle their problems then and there? Would New Zealand be a place of corruption by the British settlers or what?

To put this into simple form, for those who don’t really know about the signing of the treaty, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed on the 6th of February of 1840 and is the founding document of New Zealand. The treaty is an agreement in Maori and English, that was made between the British Crown and about 540 Maaori Rangatira (chiefs). New Zealand first Governor-general William Hobson was the co-author of the treaty and spent a few days writing it in English. Over the night of the 4 of February 1840, missionary Henry Williams and his son Edward translated the English part into Maori, obviously for the Maaori to read as they could not at the time read nor understand english.