New Zealand History - The Truth 7

The Kaimanawa Wall

The AD 186 Taupo eruption clearly would have devastated the North Island. Evidence shows the Kaimanawa Wall to be a small segment of a large Pyramid structure and I'd suggest the eruption played a significant part in the burial of that structure. Geotecnic surveys would clear it up.. During the May 1996 media frenzy, local Maori suddenly declared that the wall is both an 'atua', and a 'waahi tapu'. Local Tuwharetoa elders warn that as a result it is now a no-go area for both the public and Department of Conservation and `we require this rule to be adhered to without exception'.

Maori elders also took the opportunity to refute the idea that the wall is of pre-Maori origin, and re-iterate that `the tangata whenua are the only descendants of the original occupants in Aotearoa'.

Victoria University Maori Studies senior lecturer Peter Adds also stated publicly that `the suggestion of a pre-Maori civilisation is inherently racist'

Ahh.. the race card again - It is Cultural hegemony at its worst... Cultural Hegemony describes the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class, who manipulate the culture of the society — the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores — so that their ruling-class ideal becomes the worldview that is imposed and accepted as the cultural norm;

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