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Treaty Of Waikato

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Read the Treaty

Transcript of the English version of the original Treaty of Waitangi document. Read the full article

Page 4 - Treaty of Waitangi translations

The Treaty of Waitangi translated into Cook Islands, Samoan, Tongan, Niuean and Tokelau

The Treaty in practice

Amalgamating Māori into colonial settler society was a key part of British policy in New Zealand after 1840. Economic and social change, along with land-purchase programmes, were central to this process. Read the full article

Page 8 - The Waikato-Tainui claim

The Waikato-Tainui people and the Crown signed a Deed of Settlement in 1995. It included a formal apology for Crown actions in the wars of the 1860s that had brought devastation