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Treaty Of Waikato

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Read the Treaty

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

Dame Whina Cooper, 1987

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