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Thorpe said from next year schools would be encouraged to teach local histories and there was a danger that only the three schools on Rekohu Chatham Islands would teach their students about Moriori history. The trust s chairperson Maui Solomon said the Government had an obligation to ensure Moriori history was learned by children throughout New Zealand. I think there s a strong case to make that greater resources and effort need to be put in to correcting the historical record for Moriori because it s been so badly blighted by predominantly Pākehā historians and the education system in New Zealand for the last hundred years, Solomon said. ....
Photo: Supplied / Hokotehi Moriori Trust The Hokotehi Moriori Trust said the draft Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum mentioned Moriori only once. Ministry of Education has said the curriculum was a high-level document that was not intended to provide the detail of what schools would teach. However, the trust s cultural and science projects coordinator Susan Thorpe said it was a serious omission especially as the Crown had acknowledged the school system had spread misinformation that Moriori were still battling. There is a lot of unravelling that needs to be done as well as then the telling of the real history and a really exciting part of New Zealand culture, she said. ....