Local historians reshape understanding of past
(WorldNews Politics)

20 May 2019 A community trust in Marlborough is working with local schools and other partners to tell a more balanced story about the first encounters between Maori and non-Maori in the Marlborough Sounds and their impact, and it is looking to take its message to schools nationwide. Totaranui Trust chair Raymond Smith says, `History has been written by the conquerors, but that is not necessarily a true picture of what happened here, and this applies to Cook and what followed in his wake. There is a whole other story that needs to be told, and we are part of that re-telling. `We are focusing on our children in schools in this region because the young people are the leaders of the future.`...