{"id":75174,"date":"2025-11-14T12:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/14\/new-zealand-history-curriculum-rewrite-nz-maori-aotearoa"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:42:53","slug":"reframes-history-fears-maori-knowledge-diluted-in-plan-to-revise-new-zealand-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75174","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reframes history\u2019: fears M\u0101ori knowledge diluted in plan to revise New Zealand curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister rejects claims M\u0101ori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to the Treaty of Waitangi<\/p>\n<p>As cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local M\u0101ori elder cried.<\/p>\n<p>She was standing at the site of the massacre at Rangiaowhia, where M\u0101ori were deliberately burnt to death by the British crown in 1864. The site was just down the road from her Waikato high school. But she had never heard about it; in history, they\u2019d been learning about the American civil war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/14\/new-zealand-history-curriculum-rewrite-nz-maori-aotearoa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister rejects claims M\u0101ori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to the Treaty of WaitangiAs cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local M\u0101ori elder cried.She was sta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,615,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-education","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75175,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75174\/revisions\/75175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}