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Maori land loss, 1860-2000

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These maps chart the loss of Māori land (shaded blue) in the North Island between 1860 and 2000. The Crown and the New Zealand Company had purchased nearly 99% of the South Island by 1865. For details, see the Ngāi Tahu land claim and Māori land loss: South Island (Te Ara).

This interactive Appears In 4 Articles:

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    New Zealand's 19th-century wars
  • The Treaty House
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  • George Grey in 1861
    Māori King movement - 1860-94
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Keywords

treaty of waitangi
land claims
maori land
land confiscation
maori land court
Credit

This map is adapted from Appendix four of Claudia Orange, Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi (BWB, 2004). This in turn is based on National Overview, Rangahaua Whanui Series, Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington 1997, vol II, ppX-XIV 

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'Maori land loss, 1860-2000', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/interactive/maori-land-1860-2000, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 17-Jun-2016

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Community contributions

7 comments have been posted about Maori land loss, 1860-2000

What do you know?

diane hart

Posted: 06 Aug 2013

We are children of mereana Te Moananui (Heart) our mum passed away 8/7/2005 and lefted us children some land north island
and south island we would like to have information on what land has been sold and who too and why
We also like information if there is still land who's leasing and where the lease money going
Who's paying rates on the land in qustion. How can we get access the paper work
Thank you for your time
Lynn hart and diane hart
You can concect us on our phones or addresses
Lynn hart
108 laurie lane
Totara
Thames 3500
02040052783

Diane hart
1308 jellicoe street
Mayfair
Hastings 4122
0210635197 or 065610911

Jonathon Hughes

Posted: 01 Nov 2011

hey i have a question how much land did the maori have before 1860? Cheers Big J

admin

Posted: 19 Sep 2008

Not sure if this helps, but in the DNZB essay on Te Hapuku (click here to see this) it says: Te Hapuku may have joined in the campaign to punish Ngati Raukawa and its Rangitane allies for their attack on Hawke's Bay, in which the mother of Kurupo Te Moananui had been killed. It is recorded that he consumed part of the body of the son of Te Hirawanu Kaimokopuna. One of the prisoners taken was a female cousin of Te Hirawanu; Te Hapuku took her to wife; their son was Watene Te Hapuku. Jamie

Anonymous

Posted: 19 Sep 2008

I am inquiring about a woman called whakarongo she lived in the manawatu area Palmerston North. She was born about 1795 and she was kidnapped round about the 1820,s. and taken up north. She later returned to the manawatu area after christianity was introduced. She had a brother called Hirawanu Kaimokopuna whom was a chief of the Rangitane people and he was considered by William Colenso as the great chief of the upper part and the lower part of the manawatu river.