Te Tiriti o Waitangi True or False (Grade 5)
Free printable true or false worksheet for Grade 5 on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, including the well-documented differences between the Māori and English texts.
Grade 5 · History worksheet
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Te Tiriti o Waitangi: True or False
Read each statement about Te Tiriti o Waitangi and circle True or False.
- 1.True or False: In the English text the Crown gained sovereignty, while the Māori text used kāwanatanga, governance.
- a) True
- b) False
- 2.True or False: The treaty was written in both Māori and English.
- a) True
- b) False
- 3.True or False: The Māori and English texts of the treaty are word-for-word identical.
- a) True
- b) False
- 4.True or False: Only three rangatira ever signed the treaty.
- a) True
- b) False
- 5.True or False: The Waitangi Tribunal was created in 1840 to organise the first signing.
- a) True
- b) False
- 6.True or False: Te Tiriti o Waitangi was first signed on 6 February 1840 at Waitangi.
- a) True
- b) False
- 7.True or False: Nearly all the rangatira who signed put their names to the Māori text.
- a) True
- b) False
- 8.True or False: Waitangi Day, 6 February, is a public holiday in New Zealand.
- a) True
- b) False
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- NZ History: The Treaty in brief — supports the 6 February 1840 signing at Waitangi, the roughly 40 signatures that day and about 540 across 1840, nearly all on the Māori text
- NZ History: Differences between the texts — explains that the English text ceded sovereignty while the Māori text used kāwanatanga and guaranteed tino rangatiratanga, so the two texts differ
- Waitangi Tribunal: Māori and English texts — the official body confirming the texts differ, and documenting the Tribunal's 1975 creation to investigate Crown breaches