Te Tiriti o Waitangi True or False (Grade 6)
Free printable true or false worksheet for Grade 6 on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, including the well-documented differences between the Māori and English texts.
Grade 6 · 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: Waitangi Day is celebrated on 25 December.
- a) True
- b) False
- 2.True or False: The Waitangi Tribunal was created in 1975 to investigate claims that the Crown has breached the treaty.
- a) True
- b) False
- 3.True or False: About 540 rangatira signed the treaty during 1840.
- a) True
- b) False
- 4.True or False: Both texts used the same untranslated English word for sovereignty.
- a) True
- b) False
- 5.True or False: The treaty was written only in English.
- 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: The Māori and English texts of the treaty differ in important ways.
- 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