It's 250 years since James Cook arrived in NZ. Many people have chosen not to celebrate this. Cook and his peers were arrogant English colonizers who did immeasurable damage in the Pacific. But it is our history and we can neither change nor ignore it. This history is being commemorated with Tuai250 - a flotilla of tall ships and waka including a replica of Cook's Endeavour.
"Tuia250 asks us not to dwell on the past but to be proud of it, and then to look over the horizon again. It's about weaving the cultures and histories together. This stands as a reminder for how courageous and brave our early voyagers were.
We are a nation that is not afraid of going over the horizon."
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