potiki
HISTORY 202
Critical Review
Potiki
Laura Tongi
1006674
June 16, 1999
Professor Inglis
Brigham Young University -Hawaii Campus
Potiki
Land, to many of us, is a place of growth and development. When the Pakeha, or
white man, saw the fertile land of New Zealand, he saw opportunity and investment to
make more money. But did the Pakeha really know what land is to those who live as though
their land is everything they had? Of course, they must have …
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…only ourselves but everyone, all of you [the
Maoris] as well” (89). Because they were desperate for that land, they destroyed the cemetery
and the wharekai in hopes of scaring the Maori away. The Pakeha could not destroy the life
that was indestructible: the land. The Maori could always rebuild, and the land could regain
its fertility. The life that was everlasting will never be destroyed.
Reference: Grace, Patricia. Potiki. University of Hawai’i Press. Honolulu: 1986
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