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@les.3559

2 жыл бұрын

Take this down!!!!! Look at the war you've started in the comments with the way you titled this video!!! I'm upset to see alot of ignorant racist living amongst me in my country out here !!! Disgusting people, this is TRASH. And the fundraiser is going towards more white people. Better be helping the black refugees outta Ukraine!!! 🙄

Kiwi here :D we used to have an incredible TV show where regular guys had to follow the trails the original explorers took to find places for European settlement in New Zealand. They were ONLY allowed to wear the clothes and carry the supplies etc that the original explorers had :o It was freaking amazing!!!! They struggled so much even though they had the maps by that point. It would have been soooo incredibly difficult (and dangerous, and terrifying) being an explorer back then and having no idea what you were walking into or how you would get back out again. Freaking amazing show, wish I could remember what it was called :) Edit; Xplore Aotearoa replied to me with the name if anyone is interested in trying to find it, it's called First Crossings ^_^

@mudpyz

2 жыл бұрын

do you remember what it was called - i would love to find that and watch it

@JakeRanginui

2 жыл бұрын

It was called First Crossings. :)

@mudpyz

2 жыл бұрын

@@JakeRanginui thanks

@Vexarax

2 жыл бұрын

@@JakeRanginui - thank you I couldn't remember the name!! I will edit that into my comment in case anyone else wants to try to find it ^_^

@nikiTricoteuse

2 жыл бұрын

Keep an eye out for it. Every once in a while it pops up back on TV. Sadly usually at fairly inconvenient viewing times. Great programme.

I’d be happy to have 1/5th of this man’s energy

I love Tony. He really makes watching these videos and learning the history of all these places so much fun.

I'm born and raised in Christchurch nz was so surprised to see this video thanks so much !!

This is awesome , I was born and still live in Christchurch , we learnt about the 4 aves in school in the 70s , I love my city , thank you so much for covering our garden city

I had no idea my home city had a forest in the middle of it..... No lies, this is all new to me

@nikiTricoteuse

2 жыл бұрын

It's called Dean's Bush and is an absolutely lovely place to walk around. Make sure to visit it. It's well worth it.

@yvna7545

2 жыл бұрын

Heehehe

@eastchchkea6475

2 жыл бұрын

Just a wee walk from Riccarton Mall

@anthonymorgan6255

2 жыл бұрын

You really need to get out more.

@TheOne-er7nk

2 жыл бұрын

Stop drinking and smart phoning your way through life then.

Very interesting and educational video about Christchurch in my home country of New Zealand! I found this video very informative and enlightening! Great job indeed 👏

@brendafitzgerald3797

2 жыл бұрын

Likewise! I often feel quite embarrassed by my lack of knowledge regarding the history of the beautiful country that is not only my country of birth but the only place in which I have resided. Have always and always will be fiercely proud to be a kiwi 🌞😁

The cardboard cathedral is still here. The original one just now started rebuilding. I'm sad container mall has gone it showed kiwi resilience and ingenuity

This is really cool. Tony is a great story teller.

this was so good thank u!

*Absolute History apsolute in New Zealand history appreciate your videos Listening from Mass USA TYVM 💙*

Excellent channel.

Wtf did I miss Tony walking by my house on his way to deans bush?!

Good on ya mate 👍

Interesting video

This is so underrated amazing job!

Thanks! I got to know better about the city I live in 😮

Did you know that a moa was not a "big flappy thing"! It was a large flightless, now extinct, bird with only vestigial wings ...

@tgapete01

2 жыл бұрын

@@KiwiKool I'd be amazed too as no such photo exists.

@nigelworters3667

12 күн бұрын

The 9 species of Moa were the only known birds to be completely wingless. They didn't even have vestigial wings

Would of so loved to meet Tony Robertson. I watch all his shows

My great great grandfather Andrew Brown brought his family ( wife and 3 daughters) from England to Christchurch in 1854 aboard the Royal Stuart. They moved to Kapiti Island setting up a general store for whalers.

1 September 1888, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.0-7.3 struck the district of North Canterbury. Victorian settlers: Let's build another city here. Modern day settlers: Let's build another city here.

2223, lol thats my late Mums grandfather John O’Neil Tony is referring too. He was a proprietor or owner of several pubs in Christchurch including the one in Geraldine. Great to hear thanks. Laurie 😅😅😊😊

Holy Smokes this was a great episode.

Tony, please, visit South America in order to see magnificent buildings.

talking about history of NZ a new video "Poukawa Revisited" showing NZ was anciently occupied 7000 -10,000 years ago with radiocarbon dating records that have been kept from the public for the last 50 years. well worth watching!

@chickentoucher55

Ай бұрын

you do know that the idea of someone owning land based on race is a social construct and doesn’t exist, the idea of stolen land is a European one, the Māori weren’t one group of people jsut because they had the same skin colour like all of humanity, they enslaved cannibalised and hated one another, they colonised eachothers territory, history was about whoever could had the most superior war tactics won, their was no United Nations, their was no moral or international law saying this is right and wrong, I don’t know why only Europeans were supposed to know what’s morally wrong in 2024 200 odd years where as everyone else who has benefited from “injustices” of their ancestors (so every single human) just gets away with it well also being able to somehow be the victim in it all, nothing more European than created universal morals only to be the only one held up to it

I always associated Riccarton with the shopping centre and the McDonalds (and also Georgie Pie, but McDonalds put an end to that), so I never knew about the hidden park. My family moved to the States when I was 11 (I'm in my 30s now) and I would love to go back someday, though I'm sure the city is barely recognisable now

@alicejohnson8751

9 күн бұрын

It is very recognisable. The CBD is about 50% different as only about half the original buildings remain but outside the CBD most of the residential areas are the same

What year was this recorded?? So much has changed.

@rainyd4293

2 жыл бұрын

Way before covid 19, obviously😅

@mrkennedy4394

2 жыл бұрын

A sign said apartments coming in 2011 or something like that. So I'm guessing a while ago.

I hope it's open

don't tell him they took away the container cafes :( we used to love visiting them.

I always thought that the Mowry People settled "New Zealand" 😆😉

@ashleelarsen5002

2 жыл бұрын

Tia and Tamera? 😜

@coolnegative

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashleelarsen5002 🤣🤣🤣👍awesome! It took me a couple of seconds, but then........pow! Nice one!

@ashleelarsen5002

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolnegative thank you, (there is no bowing emoji) 🤟

@michelepascoe6068

2 жыл бұрын

Maori, yes

@coolnegative

2 жыл бұрын

@@michelepascoe6068 autocorrect.......ya know.

From an old-er lady living near Seattle, Wash. U.S.A., you are having way too much fun and getting to see so much wonderful history. I demand that you take me with you on your next adventure. Just send me the money for air fair and I will be there. Thank You.

@Alex-cb2gf

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds a bit like catfishing.

@sixthsenseamelia4695

2 жыл бұрын

Fair 🎠🎡 Fare💲✈️ 👍

Home sweet home

Dunedin- the Edinburgh of the South. Co-founded by a nephew of Robbie Burns.

@sixthsenseamelia4695

2 жыл бұрын

Dunedin - Ōtepoti in the South.

My father's side were on the first Settler ship to NZ, being Scottish Vikings, they despised the English,and quite often kicked the shit out of a lot of them.

Anyone know when this was filmed?

@emmaroylands6990

2 жыл бұрын

deffo a fair few years ago I went over in 2020 and it was a lot more reconstructed that it is in this.

@michelepascoe6068

2 жыл бұрын

Quite a long time ago. The cardboard cathedral has been complete for some years and the container mall is gone

@hopha166

2 жыл бұрын

This episode aired in 2013, and construction of the cardboard cathedral started mid 2012, so somewhere between those dates.

Oh no! First l was upset because you were in my city and l had no idea you were here, then you showed some of our lovely buildings pre quakes and l had a bit of a cry. The people next to me at my campsite now think l'm a lunatic.

Interesting. I forgot about the earthquakes. Tragedy for the old buildings but I spring fir the redo.

I'm here for my weekly dose of Vitamin T😎

The "bog roll" cathedral eg: loo roll.

It will never not be janky to see filmed footage of literally right down the road from my shitty Riccarton student flat

For anyone complaining about this, you do know that the idea of someone owning land based on race is a social construct and doesn’t exist, the idea of stolen land is a European one, the Māori weren’t one group of people jsut because they had the same skin colour like all of humanity, they enslaved cannibalised and hated one another, they colonised eachothers territory, history was about whoever could had the most superior war tactics won, their was no United Nations, their was no moral or international law saying this is right and wrong, I don’t know why only Europeans were supposed to know what’s morally wrong in 2024 200 odd years where as everyone else who has benefited from “injustices” of their ancestors (so every single human) just gets away with it well also being able to somehow be the victim in it all, nothing more European than created universal morals only to be the only one held up to it

@chickentoucher55

Ай бұрын

This is why we are a multicultural society because white people don’t own the land, New Zealanders do although given 1/10 the competence the Māori people would’ve made this land their own supremacist state till the bitter end

Imagine if they build the city of MuhammadMosque right next door

I scanned about half the comments. I appear to be the only poster who found the presenter to be hyperactive and wildly overenthusiastic. I enjoyed the video in spite of him, not because of him.

"Eez" "Seleection" "Meexico" "Ageen" "Seecond" "Yeez" Man, Kiwis have a way with words.

10:29 you let the globaist cat out of the bag. Either the building is so badly damaged or to make room for other buildings.

I thought this was _"Absolute History"?_ _"Absolutely One-sided History"_ would more accurately describe the channel's content. Smh🤦🏽‍♂️

@melanieortiz712

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@johndoeiii9767

2 жыл бұрын

@@melanieortiz712 Bruh, its sad Melanie. Breaks my heart actually, and infuriates me. I know there's a time and place for everything, but it seems its never the time or place to actually acknowledge and reflect on the pain and sufferings endured by peoples whos lands, cultures, and communities were invaded and damnear destroyed. People can label me a troll or whatever they want. I'll be a troll for another 400+ years if need be. _"Cape Malay" / "Cape Coloured"_ from Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 #TheCapeOfStorms 🌊 #TheCapeColony ⛓️

@melanieortiz712

2 жыл бұрын

@@johndoeiii9767 feeling ya, Native American woman. Never be silent about the illegal occupation of the Americas or other Indigenous people around the world by colonizers. Truth for far too long been kept in the corner.

@chickentoucher55

Ай бұрын

He’s literally telling the founding of Christchurch ya dope, sorry Māori had 600 odd years to do something but only managed to enslave eachother and kill off the two most magnificent animals in nz

Can we see what became of the First Peoples next? Please. Their localities, living standards, and other withstanding legacies owed to Christendom.

Every time I think of Christchurch I'm always naturally drawn to Girrafes. Especially if I'm being payed by the council. Then I simply reduce my major work and repeat it ad nauseum and pass it off as detail. But then ,why not? Plenty of other talentless wankers cashing in and if you're challenged on relevance, just say "the kids love it".

colonized*. Fixed it for you. New Zealand was not empty when colonizers arrived.

@ryanzealand

2 жыл бұрын

There were a few squatters here lol

@anonymousr1918

Жыл бұрын

We all know where the Morioris went! In the stomachs of some certain people!

@Dark-Star63A

2 ай бұрын

​​@@anonymousr1918grow up... The Moriori were a part of the Maori migration, try reading books sometime... 🤡

Why are most of these British shows so adolescent?

Settled no, invaded and colonized yes.

@laughswhentickled

2 жыл бұрын

The Māoris wiped out the Polynesians and before that the Melanesians an who knows what was before them. So before you get on your high horse waffling on about colonisation. Do a bit of research yourself. Oh btw it’s not called New Zealand either. It’s called Aotearoa.

@citrusbutter7718

2 жыл бұрын

@@laughswhentickled It doesn't look any different than the others...

@melanieortiz712

2 жыл бұрын

@@laughswhentickled you need to get off yours! By the Mori's own oral history they're apart of the Polynesian people.

@Dino-pq3eu

2 жыл бұрын

@@WyrdHag very true but some people don't admit to colonizing NZ. Maori were not the first to settle NZ.

@laughswhentickled

2 жыл бұрын

@@melanieortiz712 You need both an English and a History lesson. It’s Māori. Colonisation is how humans spread and multiplied and bred to become different species of human. It will never stop. The Chinese and Taiwan,The Russians and Ukraine. The Oligarchs and everything they can get there hands on.

Occupied* New Zealand.

@mudpyz

2 жыл бұрын

pardon???

@JakeRanginui

2 жыл бұрын

@@mudpyz she is a tinfoil hat wearer.

@melanieortiz712

2 жыл бұрын

@@JakeRanginui no tinfoil. Mori where there first🤨

@JakeRanginui

2 жыл бұрын

@@melanieortiz712 Mori? Māori...

@Dino-pq3eu

2 жыл бұрын

@@melanieortiz712 no they weren't

Back off on the racist 13:02

Should say The Victorian land thieves

@anthonymorgan6255

2 жыл бұрын

Kai Tahu we're decimated by Ngati Toa during the musket wars. Mostly lived on Banks Peninsula and North of Christchurch. Where the city is now is based on reclaimed swamp and to the East, sand dunes. Hence the devestation of the quakes. Kai Tahu didn't live there but did have fishing grounds that to this day are respected.

@sixthsenseamelia4695

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonymorgan6255 Wow, I didn't know that Maori invented muskets. 😒

"Pioneers"? Colonisers

@danrobinson1729

2 жыл бұрын

Lol win the war next time :3

@melanieortiz712

2 жыл бұрын

@@danrobinson1729 what war. White people lie and make promises they never intended to keep. You're also ignorant of the Doctrine of Christian discovery.

@citrusbutter7718

2 жыл бұрын

I notice Australians and New Zealanders have a hard time acknowledging it but they sure love pointing it out with other countries.

@melanieortiz712

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZenMilitia I'm not the one crying. Just here to tell truth.

@melanieortiz712

2 жыл бұрын

@@citrusbutter7718 white people no matter where they hold illegal occupation always do.

bs this is maori land

@chickentoucher55

Ай бұрын

That’s not how the world works? What tribes exactly you weren’t a unified nation you were tribes who enslaved, hated and killed one another, theirs no such thing as someone owning land based on race, your ancestors would’ve of colonised land from someone else 100s of times it’s just you didn’t have the technology or knowledge to record it in history

can we stop calling colonizers “pioneers”???

@anthonymorgan6255

2 жыл бұрын

Please clarify? Do you realise Ngai Tahu came from BOP and colonised. Then in turn were colonised by Ngati Toa.

@sixthsenseamelia4695

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonymorgan6255 Maori traded amicably & successfully with other peoples before the "pioneers" arrived.

@les.3559

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this comment savvy sav !!!! Jist what I was scrolling for

@ryanzealand

2 жыл бұрын

No..Can we stop calling Pioneers ''colonizers"?

In other civilisations women where goddesses and queens

NEW ZEALAND was NOT a country when the Europeans first came, just a land of a bunch of independent tribes who fought each other. Europeans made this a country. There is NOTHING in the treaty about Partnership and it was NOT maori who used aotearoa. There are NO principles in the treaty.

@chriswhata

2 жыл бұрын

Show your sources

@berniefynn6623

2 жыл бұрын

@@chriswhata try reading

@jordax2028

2 жыл бұрын

Historical amnesia much.

@Dark-Star63A

2 ай бұрын

Get real 🤡

@berniefynn6623

2 ай бұрын

breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10/bruce-moon-rangiaowhia-incident.html

Really are you proud of this colonisation? 😂😂

*colonized

My Great Grand Father a Bruce arrived in New Zealand from Scotland in 1923 and settled in Christchurch marrying my Great Grand Mother who was a Māori woman of the South Island Ngai Tahu Iwi (Tribe).