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{{Act of Villainy|name=New Zealand Wars|Image=NZW.jpg|perpetrator=British Empire<br>Māori tribes|date=1843-1872|location=New Zealand|motive=To clear Māori people from their lands for white/Pākehā settlers (succeeded)|crimes=[[War crimes]]<br>Invasion<br>Forced assimilation}} | {{Act of Villainy|name=New Zealand Wars|Image=NZW.jpg|perpetrator=British Empire<br>Māori tribes|date=1843-1872|location=New Zealand|motive=To clear Māori people from their lands for white/Pākehā settlers (succeeded)|crimes=[[War crimes]]<br>Invasion<br>Forced assimilation<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]}} | ||
{{Quote|Any discussion of contemporary Māori poverty that fails to acknowledge the long history of invasion, dispossession and confiscation is missing a vital part of the story.|Vincent O'Malley; ''The New Zealand Wars/ Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa''.}} | |||
The '''New Zealand Wars''', also known as the '''Māori Wars''' or '''Land Wars''', were a series of wars fought between British (Pākehā) settlers and the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand. These conflicts occurred from 1843 to 1872. These constant seizures of lands also violated the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840. | The '''New Zealand Wars''', also known as the '''Māori Wars''' or '''Land Wars''', were a series of wars fought between British (Pākehā) settlers and the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand. These conflicts occurred from 1843 to 1872. These constant seizures of lands also violated the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840. | ||
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* '''Te Kooti's War (1868-1872)''' - After the release of a Māori leader named Te Kooti from the Chatham Islands, the colonial government labelled Te Kooti as an outlaw, despite his requests for his people to be left in peace. Te Kooti then began a series of attacks and raids on settlements alongside the east coast, including the Poverty Bay massacre. In the end, Te Kooti found refuge in a Waikato tribe and managed to escape his pursuers before he was eventually pardoned by the government. | * '''Te Kooti's War (1868-1872)''' - After the release of a Māori leader named Te Kooti from the Chatham Islands, the colonial government labelled Te Kooti as an outlaw, despite his requests for his people to be left in peace. Te Kooti then began a series of attacks and raids on settlements alongside the east coast, including the Poverty Bay massacre. In the end, Te Kooti found refuge in a Waikato tribe and managed to escape his pursuers before he was eventually pardoned by the government. | ||
== Legacy == | |||
Under the New Zealand Settlements Act of 1863, the colonial government began confiscating land from both "loyal" and "rebel" Māori tribes and lands that were returned to Māori were often not returned to their original owners, which would lead to many Māori in a state of poverty for generations. Māori chief Te Whiti o Rongomai established a settlement in the Taranaki region named Parihaka to resist the confiscations of their lands before he and his supporters were arrested by British officers. In 1898, Chief Hōne Riiwi Tōia of the Ngāpuhi tribe led a protest movement against a "dog tax" policy and led a brief confrontation with a group of British soldiers before the confrontation was put to an end by a Māori politician named Hone Heke Ngapua. | |||
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