by Danny Keenan | Sep 15, 2019 | Consequences
Māori Land After the Wars As Māori throughout New Zealand returned to their villages and cultivations in order to once again secure themselves socially and, more critically, economically, the government embarked upon its vigorous legislative programme to change the...
by Danny Keenan | Aug 23, 2019 | Causes
The Treaty Signed The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February 1840, between the British Crown and Māori. About forty chiefs signed at Waitangi. Copies of the Treaty document were thereafter taken around New Zealand for further Māori signatures. About 500 Māori...
by Danny Keenan | Jul 22, 2019 | Histories of Māori
Te Pouhere Korero – 30 years old In 1992, a small group of Māori interested in Māori history established Te Pouhere Korero, which functioned as a network of Māori historians, or at least, Māori interested in history. That means Te Pouhere Korero was 30 years old...
by Danny Keenan | Jul 18, 2019 | Politics of the 19th Century
The Māori Population When Pākehā first arrived in New Zealand, the Māori population by some estimates stood at about 90,000 people, spread all over Aotearoa though most lived near the coast. By the time the war at Waitara began in 1860, the Māori population had fallen...
by Danny Keenan | Dec 28, 2018 | Histories of Māori
The 1990 Sesquentenary year was also a good year for the writing of histories. In 1990, for example, the Australian government presented $1 million to establish a South Pacific oral history archive as a sesquentennial gift. The first volume of the Dictionary of New...
