Moana Jackson, described as a “Te Tiriti specialist” in a recent Stuff report, dismissed Tuia 250 as a load of humbug.
To celebrate the dual heritage of navigation across the Pacific, he contended, “then it wouldn’t be Tuia 250, it would be Tuia 2000 or something.”
More egregious, to “commemorate” Captain James Cook’s arrival in this country seems “weird” to Jackson:
“When it comes to explorers, you usually make a big deal of whoever did something first.
“Neil Armstrong is acknowledged as the first astronaut to land on the Moon. There’s no real celebration of the 12th astronaut to land on the Moon. And Cook wasn’t even the 12th navigator to sail across the Pacific.
“So I’m not sure what the baseline was for commemorating him – except that he has become an important part of the misremembering of colonising history.”
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