This web feature was written by Steve Watters and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- For more on the history of the flag see Flags of New Zealand
- Declaration of Independence (Archives New Zealand)
Books
- James Belich, Making peoples: a history of the New Zealanders from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century, Penguin, Auckland, 1996
- Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean (eds), Frontier of dreams: the story of New Zealand, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 2005
- Paul Moon, Te ara ki te Tiriti: the path to the Treaty of Waitangi, David Ling, Auckland, 2002
- Vincent O’Malley, Bruce Stirling and Wally Penetito (eds), The Treaty of Waitangi companion: Māori and Pākehā from Tasman to today, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2010
- Claudia Orange, The Treaty of Waitangi, Allen and Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1987
