Parihaka - Social Studies 2021

 For the past few weeks we have been working on our second class for social studies. This one is about Parihaka, Again we used My Maps to show our work. For those of you that don't know, Parihaka is a place in taranaki which was a place for tragedy in the 1800's. I will link my map underneath :)

My Map Link

Another part of this assessment was to look at a song that was written for Parihaka, we know this because it's called Parihaka! This song was written and preformed by Tim Finn & The Herbs. We have to look at the lyrics and see which ones are important. Here is my thinking :)

My friend, My friend, I hate to see you suffer
Events conspire to bring us to our knees
My friend, my friend, you've taken this the wrong way
Rise up, defend yourself, never give in
Look to the sky, the spirit of Te Whiti
The endless tide is murmuring his name

I know Te Whiti will never be defeated
And even at the darkest hour
His presence will remain
I'll sing to you the song of Parihaka

Te Whiti he used the language of the spirit
Then stood accused, the madman and his dream
He saw the train go roaring through the tunnel
He heard the voice travel on the magic wire
But he loved the silence of the river
He watched the dog piss on the cannon's wheel

I know Te Whiti will never be defeated
And even at the darkest hour
His presence will remain
I'll sing to you the song of Parihaka

One day you'll know the truth
They can't pull out the roots
Come and take me home
To weep for my lost brother
They gather still, the clouds of Taranaki
His children's children wearing the white plume
So take me for the sins of these sad islands
The wave still breaks on the rock of Rouhotu
And when you taste the salt that's on your pudding
And when you taste the sugar in your soup
Think of Te Whiti, he'll never be defeated
Even at the darkest hour
His presence will remain
I'll sing for you the song of Parihaka
Come to Parihaka
Weep for my lost brother
The spirit of nonviolence
Has come to fill the silence
Come to Parihaka

Social Studies - Slave Trade Unit

 For the past week in Social Studies we have been learning about the slave trades. We have been using My Maps to complete this task, My Maps is a basically a map but you can add pins and lines and lots of other things. We had to watch heaps of reenactment videos which were very sad but we were focusing on the music mostly because they used it to communicate and they used spirituals in their bush meeting because they couldn't go to normal churches for obvious reasons but there were some hidden meanings in the spirituals giving them ways to escape. Here is the My Map link for my work. The questions I have to answer will be underneath.

My Map

Explain the Spirituals and what they were.

The spirituals were a way of getting through to the slaves so they could send message to help them escape. They also gave them hope so they could believe that they could make it. 

Explain who Harriet Tubman and what the Underground Railroad was.

Harriet Tubman was a very wanted lady because she helped the slaves escape using the Underground Railroads. The Underground Railroads are tunnels underneath the places where the slaves found a way to get to them out of that horrible situation.

Choose a Spiritual and explain the lyrics that stand out and the hidden meaning.

I chose ' Wade in the water ' which is the one we listened to which is basically what it sounds like. Because if you tried to escape the masters would send out vicious dogs but dogs can't track a smell in the water.

How are these events still significant today?

They are significant today because people still think they can use people based on the colour of their skin. Think of the Black Lives Matter protest, The people of that colour were trying to save themselves from the white police and lots of other racist people.