In 1844 a Select Committee of the House of Commons had recommended that a Militia, composed of both settlers and native Maori, and a permanent native force be set up.

The government estimated the Waikato area had a Maori population of 3, 400 at the same time.

The French Catholic Bishop Pompallier, who had been counselling the many Catholic Maori in the north concerning the treaty, urged them to be very wary of the treaty and not to sign anything.

The colonists had a dramatic effect on the indigenous Maori, bringing religion, technology, and the English language.

Successive governments had also shown a lack of firmness in dealing with Maori, he said: " The colony, instead of importing Gatling guns with which to fight Maori, should wage war with locomotives " ... pushing through roads and railways and compulsorily purchasing " the land on both sides ".

As early as 1923, Rātana had declared an interest in party politics, and his eldest son Haami Tokouru Rātana had stood for the Western Maori electorate as an independent candidate.

Some were used by Maori warriors during the Musket Wars 1820s-1830s, having purchased them from European traders at the time, some were still in service during the Indian rebellion of 1857, and also by Zulu warriors, who had also purchased them from European traders during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, and some were sold to the Mexican Army who used them during the Texas Revolution of 1836 and the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848.

After receiving a series of 18 threatening letters from Wiremu Tamihana, the Waikato leader who was until then was considered one of the more peaceful rangatira and who had negotiated the truce at the end of the First Taranki War, on 9 July 1863 Governor Grey expelled virtually all the Māori living in the territory controlled by the British south of Auckland after Kingitanga Maori refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen.

There was dispute among the Māori as to who owned the land at atime when even the word ownership had a multitude of meanings to Maori that were alien to the settlers.

At this time Maori were just coming to appreciate what a professionalBritish soldier was and this had a bearing on their attitude and actions. Te Rauparaha then sent his own letter to Grey acknowledging the natives had been at fault.

300 Maori who had been on the disputed land then left.

* In New Zealand / Aotearoa, prior to European contact, the Maori had a well-developed system that protected individuals, social stability and the integrity of the group.

New Zealand ’ s indigenous Maori people had a highly developed fishery for freshwater eels before the arrival of Europeans.

Maori people had an extensive knowledge of the ecology of eels and harvested them through a variety of techniques.

This was the center for the King Movement, a loose federation of iwi and hapu which had been formed to set up an alternative Maori government whose main aim was to prevent the sale of any Māori land by Maori.

All missionaries and farmers who had lived peacefully on their land in the Waikato for 20 years and given Maori enormous help setting up wheat farms and eight flour mills where threatened with death if they did not leave.

The settlers, on the other hand, could settle anywhere in the South Island, which had been purchased from Maori.

Maori in the Auckland area had freely sold land to settlers.

Bohan records several incidents where Maori who had committed serious crime – drunken violence and attempted rape of a Pakeha girl – could not be apprehended or were released from prison by their tribe.

The Governor had for years received messages of support from NgaPuhi in the campaigns against rebel Waikato Maori.

Although several Māori names have been used, Maori Language Commissioner Erima Henare sees Te Ika-a-Māui as the most likely choice.

Although several Māori names have been used, Maori Language Commissioner Erima Henare sees Te Wai Pounamu as the most likely choice.

In 1983 the show featured several dancing crews, giving youth of Pacific Island and Maori heritage, many of whom were interested in hip-hop culture and dance, a sense of connectedness to global youth culture.

Versions of Maori Fort settlements have been discovered in Central Polynesia, around the islands of Fiji, Tonga, and then in Eastern Polynesian Islands, where there has been inter-island overseas War campaigns during several eras of Polynesian Monarchal powers, and Ali ' i Cult-orders.

The simplest Maori Pā, the Tuwatawata, generally consisted of a single wood palisade around the village strong hold, and several elevated stage levels from which to defend and attack from.

From there he ventured inland to wage guerilla war on the armed constabulary and sympathetic Maori for several years, as well as several raids on settlers and antipathetic Maori villages.

Among the most prominent Māori MPs in the Labour Party were Eruera Tirikatene, who was succeeded by his daughter, Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan — both represented Southern Maori in Parliament for several decades.

Although several Māori names have been used, Maori Language Commissioner Erima Henare sees Te Wai Pounamu as the most likely choice.

There are several volcanic plugs in New Zealand, including the Pinnacles in the Coromandel Peninsula, Bream Head, Paritutu and adjacent Sugar Loaf Islands, and Piha's Lion Rock, which hosted a fortified Maori pa. Australia's Mount Warning is a volcanic plug.

Land was easy to purchase from Maori as the isthmus had been fought over by many hapu for several generations during the musket wars and the native population had either been killed and eaten as at Panmure or fled or welcomed the protection afforded by large numbers of European and their technology.

In Maori folklore, Kupe was said to have placed several obstacles to hinder pursuers whose wives he had stolen, one of which was the ongaonga.

These names represented members of Parliament and the four seats that Maori were allowed to vote for.

One of the Maori names for the river was Heretaunga, which is also the name of an Upper Hutt suburb and secondary school.

It seems likely this was a different tree from the totara ( Podocarpus totara ) which, as a sacred tree, had given the hill one of its Maori names.

New Zealand place names derive mostly from Maori and from British sources.

Recently there has been a movement to revive some Maori names.

In its report, the tribunal observed that to the offence of local Maori, many street names in Waitara honoured the architects of the illegal land confiscation, including chief crown purchasing agent Donald McLean, Land Purchase Commissioner Robert Parris, Governor Thomas Gore Browne and military officers Charles Emilius Gold and Peter Cracroft.

Colloquial names for the company's stores include " The Big Red Shed ", " WareWhare " ( pronounced wah-re fah-reh ,( rolling the r ) whare is Maori word for house ), Warehu and " The Wuds ".

Other successful New Zealand names in theatre and comedy have presented early works at BATS, including Flight of the Conchords, Duncan Sarkies, So You're a Man, The Naked Samoans and Maori playwrights Hone Kouka and Riwia Brown.

Similarly, in New Zealand, many places have dual Maori and English names, such as Aoraki / Mount Cook.

To obtain land for farmers the Liberal government from 1891 to 1911 purchased 3. 1 million acres of Maori land.

Historically, international shipping to and from New Zealand started out with the first explorer-traders, with New Zealand waters soon becoming a favourite goal for whalers as well as merchants trading with the Maori and beginning European colonies.

To obtain land for farmers the Liberal government from 1891 to 1911 purchased 3. 1 million acres of Maori land.

By 1920 Maori still owned five million acres by 1920 ; they leased three million acres and used one million acres for themselves.

In New Zealand ( Aotearoa ), which is officially bi-cultural, multiculturalism has been seen as a threat to Maori, and possibly an attempt by the New Zealand Government to undermine Maori demands for self determination.

The modern Maori name for Saturday, rahoroi, literally means " washing-day "-a vestige of early colonized life when Māori converts would set aside time on the Saturday to wash their whites for Church on Sunday.

Hundertwasser's Koru Flag, proposal for a new New Zealand flag | New Zealand national flag based on a Māori people | Maori motif

In pre-colonial times Maori were thought to not have a commonly-used name for the whole New Zealand archipelago, but in the 19th century, ' Aotearoa ' was used to refer both to the whole country, and to the North Island only.

The spiritual needs of the settlement were cared for by the priests of the Catholic Mission, Fathers Comte and Tripe, one ministering to Maori and the other to Europeans.

:* The Maori name for the Australasian Bittern

Spurgeon's works have been translated into many languages, including: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Castilian ( for the Argentine Republic ), Chinese, Kongo, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Gaelic, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kaffir, Karen, Lettish, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Welsh, with a few sermons in Moon's and Braille type for the blind.

In June 1986, the Waitangi Tribunal received the Wai 26 claim that the Treaty of Waitangi was breached by the Crown proceeding to introduce legislation related to Māori language before the delivery of the Tribunal's " Report on the Te Reo Maori Claim ", and as a consequence the Māori people would be denied their claims for radio frequencies and a television channel.

He needed Maori to be united for the Treaty to become entrenched into law.

The first Rātana movement MP was Eruera Tirikatene, elected in a by-election for Southern Maori in June 1932.

The four Māori electorates were held by Rātana-affiliated members of Labour for decades: until 1963 for the Eastern Maori electorate, 1980 for Northern Maori, and 1996 for Western and Southern Maori electorates.