A notable feature of the Moriori culture, an emphasis on pacifism, proved disadvantageous when Māori warriors arrived in the 1830s aboard a chartered European ship.

Additionally, the Māori had an agrarian economy — their warriors were also their farmers and food gatherers.

The Māori fighters were warriors from many generations of warrior — survivors of the Musket Wars, 32 years of bitter inter-tribal fighting.

One of the reasons for the First New Zealand War was curiosity by Māori warriors to see what kind of fighters these Pākehā soldiers were.

This was a substantial Māori settlement, so to the British it was a victory, but the Māori warriors escaped with their arms, so the Māori did not see it as defeat.

It was fought entirely between the Māori, Hone Heke and his tribe against Tāmati Wāka Nene and his warriors.

Wiremu Kingi, who led the Taranaki Māori warriors, made a move which was to their advantage by gifting the disputed land to the Māori King at a time when local Māori forces were hard pressed by the British soldiers.

Sentry Hill redoubt, Taranaki, 1863. Three weeks later, on 30 April 1864, the measure of devotion to the Hauhau movement displayed itself in the reckless march by 200 warriors on the Sentry Hill redoubt, 9 km north-east of New Plymouth, in a one-sided battle that cost the lives of possibly a fifth of the Māori force.

A large contingent of East Coast Māori, possibly as many as 700 warriors, were making their way towards the conflict at Waikato.

Four hundred warriors of the tribe were mobilized and they met and held the East Coast Māori on 7 April in a two day battle on the shores of Lake Rotoiti.

Hitherto in the various conflicts with the Pākehā the Māori had always shown themselves to be consummately skilful warriors, so skilful that although heavily outnumbered they had already fought the British Army to a standstill on several occasions.

The hearts of two of the Constabulary soldiers were cut from their bodies by Māori warriors, prompting McDonnell to make the dramatic gesture of kissing the blade of his sword and vowing, " I shall have revenge for this.

Titokowaru's small attacking force was quickly reinforced by warriors from neighboring villages and McDonnell's retreat to Waihi came under relentless fire from Māori who

Titokowaru responded by following him, establishing an elaborate fortification for his 400 warriors at the Māori village of Tauranga-ika close to the Europeans ' military base and just 29 km, or a day's march, from Wanganui.

Although Titokowaru had fought the entire war without direct assistance from the Māori King Movement, it is possible the Kingites had attempted to intervene in February 1869 with a raid on the Pukearuhe Redoubt in Taranaki's far north – in which a woman, three children, a missionary and three military settlers were killed – and again in March when a force of Kingite warriors massed at Mokau, reportedly preparing to invade Taranaki.

It was fought entirely between the Māori warriors on 12 June 1845 near by Te Ahuahu at Pukenui-Hone Heke and his warriors against Tāmati Wāka Nene and his warriors.

In February 1865, Te Keepa and his force of Wanganui Māori warriors took part in the attack on Ohoutahi Pa, a major Hauhau stronghold.

A missionary settlement was set up by the missionaries and Māori Christians in July 1839 after they observed Tainui warriors who had been fighting at Rotorua, return with 60 backpacks of human remains and proceed to cook and eat them in the Otawhao Pa.

During the fighting with the Māori chief Titokowaru, in 1867, Ballance was involved in the raising of a volunteer cavalry troop, in which he received a commission.

In 1868, Tūhoe sheltered the Māori leader Te Kooti, and for this were subjected to a scorched earth policy, in which their crops and buildings were destroyed and their people of fighting age were captured.

In 1846 there was fighting between Māori tribes and the Government, known as the Hutt Valley Campaign.

Māori were fighting against the economic base of industrial Britain as well as Australia.

There were always Māori on both sides of the conflict — fighting for and against the British.

By the 1870s, in Te Kooti's War, there were Māori fighting as part of the colonial forces.

The destruction of the Māori economic base in the area around the pā made it difficult for the hapus to support the fighting men.

They were seriously outnumbered by the local Māori, some of whom were known to have participated in the Hutt Valley fighting, the most notable of these being Te Mamaku, their leader.

Governor George Grey was quite prepared to continue fighting and demanded the surrender of the Māori ringleaders or chiefs.

Under the Act, Māori who had been " in rebellion " could be stripped of their land, which would be surveyed, divided and either given as 20 hectare farms to military settlers as a means of establishing and maintaining peace, or sold to recover the costs of fighting Māori.

Cameron considered that the British army did most of the fighting and suffered most of the casualties in order to enable settlers to take Māori land.

With local Māori weakened and intimidated, fighting came to an end in November and an uneasy peace prevailed on the west coast until June 1868, with the outbreak of the third Taranaki War, generally known as Titokowaru's War.

Te Awamutu was a missionary settlement built by the missionaries and Māori Christians in July 1839 after they observed Tainui cannibals who had been fighting at Rotorua, return with 60 backpacks of human remains and proceed to cook and eat them in the Otawhao pa.

This campaign started as a side show to the Invasion of the Waikato, where British Imperial Troops, on behalf of the New Zealand Colonial Government, were fighting a confederation of Māori tribes known as the King Movement.

Meanwhile the two naval ships kept pace with the fighting and any of the enemy Māori coming too close to the shore line was met with cannon fire.

At times attacking colonial troops had been decimated by well-placed Māori forces fighting on the defensive.

Te Rauparaha resisted, fighting broke out and 22 settlers and at least four Māori were killed. Te Rangihaeata the warlike nephew of Te Rauparaha insisted on killing the captured men as his wife, who was Te Rauparaha's daughter and Capt Benkinsop's ex wife, had been accidentally shot and killed.

They probably suspected also that not only would they be fighting the settlers but also the other Māori in the area.

When fighting broke out in Taranaki between Māori and the settlers, Atkinson helped to organise a number of volunteer units to fight the Māori.

It also gave Māori experience in fighting with and defending against muskets, and may help explain why rebel Māori felt so confident in taking on the combined British and New Zealand forces in the New Zealand Land Wars in the 1860s.

In New Zealand, where abalone is called pāua ( from the Māori language ), this can be a particularly awkward problem where the right to harvest pāua can be granted legally under Māori customary rights.

* 1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

Cannibalism has been well documented around the world, from Fiji to the Amazon Basin to the Congo to Māori New Zealand.

However, there were several well-documented cultures that engaged in regular eating of the dead, such as New Zealand's Māori.

In 2004, Māori made up just 15 % of the total population of New Zealand but 49. 5 % of prisoners.

He attempted to radicalize New Zealand's Māori people in a failed effort to destabilise the U. S. ally.

In New Zealand, they are also called Little Blue Penguins, or just Blue Penguins, owing to their slate-blue plumage, and they are called Kororā in Māori.

* 1845 – The Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.

The road network of New Zealand has its origins in these tracks and paths used by Māori and later by Europeans in their early travels through New Zealand.

Some Austronesian and Melanesian ethnic groups, including the Māori, some Sulawesi and some Papua New Guineans, count with the base number four, using the term asu and aso, the word for dog, as the ubiquitous village dog has four legs.

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It also killed many New Zealand Māori.

In turn, this led to their almost complete annihilation in 1835 by invading Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama Māori from the Taranaki region of the North Island of New Zealand.

For native peoples like the Māori in New Zealand, there is conflict between the fluid identity assumed as part of modern society and the traditional identity with the obligations that accompany it ; the loss of language heightens the feeling of isolation and damages the ability to perpetuate tradition.

In the case of indigenous Australians, unlike with the Māori of New Zealand, no treaty was ever entered into with the indigenous peoples entitling the Europeans to land ownership, under the doctrine of terra nullius ( later overturned by Mabo v Queensland, establishing the concept of native title well after colonization was already a fait accompli ).

Today, one can find Berbers of Tamazgha ( North Africa ), Māori of New Zealand, Hausa people of Northern Nigeria, Kurdish people in East-Turkey and Atayal of Taiwan with facial tattoos.

* Passive resistance was used to prevent the confiscation of Māori land at Parihaka in New Zealand.

* October 6 – The government of New Zealand agrees to pay $ 130 million dollars worth of compensation for the loss of land suffered by the Māori population between the years of 1844 and 1864.

The treaty between the British Crown and Māori made New Zealand colony and is considered the founding point of modern New Zealand.