Day 1: Today in Wanaga we had to do an activity were we had to write why do we have a waitangi day holiday and write about waitangi day. This is why we have a waitangi day holiday and what happened on waitangi day.
Every year, New Zealand celebrates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on the 6th of February which is also a public holiday but we have the public holiday on the following Monday on the 8th of February to make it a long weekend. The treaty was first officially celebrated in the year of 1934. The treaty was signed by representatives of the British Crown as well as over 500 Maori chiefs
Day 2: Today in Wanaga we were looking at two words about the signing of the treaty and the two words were governorship and sovereignty. Then we watched a video about what really happened on waitangi day. We didn't end up watching all of the video cause we didn't have time because we needed to write at least two paragraphs about what we have learnt. Here are my two paragraphs.
In the English version of the treaty on waitangi day the word Sovereignty was used to explain who would be in charge. Sovereignty is where authority has supreme power, control, rule, subjection. In the Maori version of the treaty the word government was used to explain who would be in charge the same as the English version but two different words. government is a group of people with the authority to lead or control a country or a state, in other words a group of people that have leadership and can manage a country.
