V Shaped Huts

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New Zealand history

 For our inquiry about Belonging and NZ history  I have chosen to investigate V shaped huts. 

Here is my research.

V shaped huts were made by the Europeans in 1850’s.

V shaped huts were distinctive to the Canterbury settlement and were put up as temporary accommodation for new settlers. The buildings consisted of a thatched roof with doors and windows at one end. They appear not to have had chimneys, suggesting cooking was done outside.

These were built at Riccarton and photographed in 1864. These huts were built by Charles Bowen, and were the first in the district. They were located at Milford, rural section Number Ninety-four on Fendall Town Road.

                      

My Inquiry Ako Plan

 

Was it a good idea for the Europeans to come here?

Was it really a good idea for the Europeans to come here

Early Europeans tricked the Maori in the Treaty of Waitangi so that they could take lots of the land.                                                                                                                              

The Maori signed the treaty but they did not fully understand what it meant. because it wasn’t translated properly.                                                                                                      

By 1890, Europeans had cut down three-quarters of the forests and used the land for farms and houses.                                                                                                  

The Early Europeans brought diseases and parasites. In the Te Ara Article about Europeans impact on New Zealand it says that “Along with immigrants came new animals, crop plants, parasites and diseases.”

They brought  diseases like “smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera’’        

Did you know that the Europeans killed a lot of whales. “Whalers followed from about 1800. By about 1850, this brief but devastating exploitation was over” The Europeans killed a lot of whales.                                                                                                                                      

So I think that the Europeans should have treated the Maori fairly.