by Danny Keenan | Sep 1, 2020 | Consequences
The End of the Wars By 1872, the wars against Māori were over. The last shots were fired by the Armed Constabulary at Mangaone, south of Waikaremoana, on 14 February 1872. Thereafter, Te Kooti Rikiranga and his few remaining followers crossed over into the King...
by Danny Keenan | Aug 23, 2020 | Causes
New Settlers from Britain As Keith Sinclair has argued, the New Zealand Wars came about because new settlers from Britain had arrived in New Zealand. New Zealand was first settled by Europeans from Australia and Britain in the 1790s. New Zealand’s first...
by Danny Keenan | Aug 21, 2020 | Wars Library
Pre Contact Māori Life and Māori Warfare Atholl Anderson, When All The Moa Ovens Grew Cold, 1983. Janet Davidson, The Prehistory of New Zealand, 1984. Aileen Fox, Prehistoric Maori Fortifications in the North Island of New Zealand, 1976. A.P. Vayda, Maori Warfare,...
by Danny Keenan | May 4, 2020 | Global Native History
Native Historians Global Native historians live and work all over the world of course and, for some (but not all) opportunities to gather together and network do arise. Conferences, especially in the USA, are convened often and their proceedings are always...
by Danny Keenan | Dec 28, 2019 | Flying the Fern
As with the building of waka and the sponsoring of ‘the year of the waka’, acknowledging the Treaty of Waitangi was achieved in many different ways during 1990, emphasising once again its centrality within the Sesquentenary celebrations. In October, the Alexander...
