Social studies

 

Current events

Aim - Understand that people move between places and how this has consequences for the people and the places.

On Sunday August the 1st Jacinda Ardern put a mat over her head asking for forgiveness.She wanted to ask for forgiveness because of what happened in the 1970s where police men would go to random Polynesian houses at dawn and take people who were over stayers.They would go to different houses and ask for proof that the people living in the houses were legal in New Zealand.If they weren't legal the police men would put the "over stayers" and their white van and make them catch the next flight to what country they came from.This is known as the dawn raids and the dawn raid has impacted a lot of the older generation and has left them traumatized and in pain.I think that it was very thoughtful of Jacinda Ardern asking for forgiveness and apologising for what has happened. The police men would know who was a over stayer by looking at there visa.

Jacinda Ardern held a Ifoga (forgiveness ceremony).A Ifoga is where the person asking for forgiveness puts a mat over there head and if they other person forgives them the will remove the mat from there head.