New Zealand 1800 1900 Race Relations 2011 Classroom Version

New Zealand New Zealand Race RelationsRace Relations

1800 - 19001800 - 1900

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VERSION 2011VERSION 2011

Wellington High School History Department

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EXTENSION READING #1

Reading Available in the Library

• Where to from Here? - Erik Olssen (Historiography)• New Zealand Before Annexation. - JMR Owen• Maori and Pakeha - MPK Sorrenson• The Maori People and the Crown - Claudia Orange • Humpty Dumpty and the Treaty of Waitangi - Bruce Biggs (Language in the Treaty)• The Treaty of Waitangi - Claudia Orange (Also see Illustrated Treaty of Waitangi on

the Reserves Trolley)• Three Historical Interpretations of the Treaty of Waitangi - Paul Moon• 1840 Scrap of paper or Sacred Pact? – Chapter 5 “Milestones” Tom Brooking

(also see Reserves Trolley)• The Pakeha Invasion - Judith Bassett• Wars and Survival – Judith Binney• Precis of the New Zealand Wars – James Belich• The Challenge to Mana Maori – Ann Parsonson• The Native Land Court and the Maori Communities – Judith Binney

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The Whence of the Maori• Maori are a Polynesian people who have

existed in New Zealand since about 750 AD. (Give or take a legend.)

• How did they get here? • Technically Waka or Vaka in the Pacific

were capable of long voyages. • World Weather was warmer and wind

patterns more settled - allowing Voyaging?• Archaeology pointed towards movement

from West to East. (Lapita Pottery)• Language pointed towards South Asia. (The

Austronesian Family). Ethnological changes, Hawaiikii = Savaii

• DNA in Rats and Humans point towards an Asian homeland.

• Oral Tradition throughout the Pacific pointed towards a voyaging history.

• Alternative theories have been debunked. (Thor Heyerdahls “Kon Tiki”).


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The Raft of the Medusa

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The Archaic (Proto)Maori• Initially settlement was in the South

Islands open country that had a ready food supply. (Moa)

• There is some evidence of scattered small settlements in the north island.

• A Hunter-Gatherer Culture developed around the large herds of flightless birds and seasonal food gathering….

• Evidence (Middens etc) indicates small mobile groups of 40-50. (Wairau Bar)

• Around 1400 A.D. the Moa became scarce /extinct threatening the way of life of these people.

• Fortunately about this time the Kumara arrived.

• The worlds climate was changing. (End of the small Ice Age)

• The Maori became isolated from the rest of Polynesia.

• Over 400 years the voyagers became myth.

Elsdon Best & Percy Smith

Richard Owen and the Moa


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A note on the Moriori

• The Moriori have been the subject of some interesting ideas.

• A common misconception is the Moriori were the original inhabitants of New Zealand and were driven away by invading Maori.

• This is wrong – but why do some people prefer to believe it?

• The Moriori appear to have arrived at the Chathams at about the same time as Maori were settling New Zealand.

• They established a peaceful culture when they realised intertribal warfare was ultimately destructive.

• This culture would be their undoing in 1835 when they were invaded by Maori. (Nagti Mutunga)

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The (Modern) Classic Maori• Kumara did not easily grow in the south.• The Maori moved north and developed an

agricultural culture around agriculture.• Culture became centred around control of

land and supported larger populations. (i.e. 3000 on Motutapu Island).

• Tribalism developed centred on Whanau, Hapu and Iwi.

• Tribal links were reinforced through familial links, especially marriage.

• Tikanga around ownership of land developed.

• Power centred on ritual links through birthright as well as achievements or knowledge in different fields.

• Rangatira and Ariki were the most important chiefs.

• Tohunga were guardians of knowledge incl. medicine and lore

• Idea of Tapu was important as a social tool.

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Kumara growing areas


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•How does this table relate to the areas where Kumara could be grown?


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Maori Social Organisation

• Maori society was highly stratified.• At the top were the Ariki or recognised heads

of Hapu and Iwi.• Such a position was reached through

birthright and the accumulation of mana.• Below were Tohunga, Kaumatua and

Warriors.• In some Iwi/Hapu women could also occupy

senior positions. • Some Iwi allowed women to speak on the

marae and be accepted as a chief.• Children occupied a special and highly

valued place in society.• At the bottom were mokai or slaves, who

were also seen as a source of labour and sometimes food when necessary.

Rangatiratanga & Mana

• These are terms that can have many meanings.

• Rangatiratanga means “Chiefly” Authority or the power wielded by a chief over upon the land and resources the tribe occupied.

• This power included the absolute right of control over its distribution and its resources.

• It gave complete control over the people within his whanau/hapu/Iwi, although major decisions would always be made in consultation with other senior members of the tribal group.

• Rangatiratanga was reliant upon Mana and the level associated with a Chief or a Tribe.

• Mana was acquired and retained in a number of ways.– Birthright

– Knowledge

– Bravery

– Wisdom

– Oratory


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Maori Politics• Whanau are an extended family.• Hapu are groups of whanau joined by

familial links,• Iwi are groups of hapu joined by familial

links,• Links between Iwi, were based upon

marriage and allowed different tribes to join together in response to perceived threats or in order to attack others.

• This allowed large Iwi confederations like the Tai Tokerau (Ngapuhi) or even the Waikato (Tainui/Waikato) to become powerful and feared by their neighbours.

• Such alliances could be short lived and it was not uncommon for Maori to turn on their former friends or relatives. (Ngati Toa)

• Often such attacks were because of slights to an Arikis or their Tribes Mana.

• Insults like this could fester for decades before Utu was satisfied. (Tewherowhero).


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Maori ReligionMaori Religion

• All things were thought of as possessing a life force or mauri.

• Religion was Polytheistic.

• A multitude of Atua or Gods were responsible for a variety of aspects of Maori daily life.

• Rangi and Papa were the creators and all other Gods came from them.

• This includes Maui, Rongo, Tu, Tane & Tangaroa.

• These Gods controlled different parts of the environment. Balance between them was important.

• Physical elements play a major role in most stories in Maori culture.

• Within a rohe most important physical features were named.


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The Traditional Maori Economy

• Traditional Maori economy was based on the production and storage of foodstuffs during the summer months with some migration within traditional tribal areas following seasonally available food. (Bush to the Sea)

• Trade was carried out by barter for materials which were not available locally.

• Northern Tribes were the more agriculturally adept based on the Kumara.

• Agriculture encourages long term settlement and denser population.

• It also gave them a significant numerical advantage.

• Southern tribes depended more on gathering of food, often based on a more migratory hunter-gatherer lifestyle.


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Eeling

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Maori Trade• Trade or exchange of goods between

Maori tribes is common.• Trade is often a way of reinforcing tribal

or familial links.• Trade is based on barter. • Shellfish and fish are an important food

in coastal regions. • Fern root is a staple part of the diet. • Maori continue to migrate with the

seasons to exploit different food sources.

• Food resources are protected by customs like raahui or a ban on use of a resource in a certain area.

• Despite this 35 species of native birds become extinct and others are depleted.

• Forest cover is reduced by 50% over the first 1000 years of Maori settlement.

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SeafoodKumaraBasalt

Maori Warfare• Warfare was endemic to Maori (Ballara).• Warfare was engaged in to acquire food,

access to resources or for women.• Sometimes it was to settle utu.• Fighting was limited to the time between

planting and harvesting crops.• How far a Taua could travel depended

upon the amount of food they could carry.• Archaic Maori developed the fortified

Kainga or Pa as a defence. • Fighting was often symbolic, a lack of

ranged weapons and an emphasis on personal combat generally limited casualties. (seige of Turuturu Mokai)

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European Exploration


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Searching for Terra Incognita• 1642 Tasman - attacked• 1769 Cook – a 6 month survey• 1769 de Surville – 2 weeks after Cook• 1771 Marion du Fresne – Killed & Eaten• Early exploration sought to discover new lands

suitable for exploitation later this expanded to include increasing scientific knowledge and to secure National security.

• Treatment of native peoples depended on the prevailing point of view in Europe.

• Tasman reacted much as we would expect a 17th Century European to (Murders Bay), while the 18th Century Cook seemed more enlightened and was helped by the presence of his Tahitian interpreter.

• The “Noble Savage” was a prevalent view by the late 1700’s and Tahiti presented every aspect of Arcadia.

• This did not stop Du Fresne’s crew from slaughtering hundreds of Maori in an act of revenge for his death.

A view of the Maori from Tasmans perspective.


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James Cook• Cook was a highly regarded

navigator who was sent to Tahiti for the Transit of Venus expedition.

• He also carried sealed orders which he opened afterwards.

• He was to search the South Pacific to verify the existence of Terra Incognita.

• He was helped by the H4 chronometer which allowed him to accurately chart his course.

• He had with him Joseph Banks who was a biologist and collector of native curiosities.


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James Cook & Joseph Banks

Cook in classic pose while Banks models the Maori cloak and other memorabilia mentioned in “Two Worlds”. Perhaps good taste didn’t allow for the Human Head he purchased in Queen Charlotte Sound.

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Cooks Report• Cook spent six

months charting New Zealand.

• He assiduously noted the flora and fauna (as did Banks) of the country.

• He was especially interested in the large areas of flax and timber that covered most of the coastline.

• He also noted the culture and customs of the Maori whom he regarded highly.

• In the late 18th Century military power was measured in the strength of the Navy.

• A Navy needed supplies of wood for both hulls and masts.

• The ships needed a constant & supply of flax for both rope and sails.

• NZ could provide both in case of war with France.

James Cook Videos

Marion Du Fresne 1772

• Marion follwoed Du Surville in represented France in exploration seeking Terra Incognita.

• He arrived in the north and spent some time using langauge skills learnt from a Tahitian to communicate with Maori.

• When his crew broke Tapu by fishing in an area local Maori attacked, killed and ate Marion along with 26 of his crew.

• In retaliation his remaining crew attacked a nearby kainga called Paeroa killing 250 Maori.

• At Moturua Island they also laid claim to NZ for France.


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The Death of Marion du Fresne

NB. THE REFERENCE TO ‘THE DEATH OF MARION’ THAT YATE WILL USE IN 1831

What Explorers FoundWhat Explorers Found

• Exploration discovered the last undiscovered large landmasses.

• They discovered a land rich in resources,– Flax– Timber– Signs of other valuable resources– Coastlines and Oceans teemed with life. (Seals & Whales)– Land that was fertile and in places apparently uninhabited.

• They discovered a people seemingly superior to others in the region.– Tahitians had been thieves.– Aboriginals were too barbaric– Maori had a stratified Society– Maori were prepared to trade.

• New Zealand occupied a possible strategic position,– The SW Pacific was open to colonisation or exploitation from such a base.


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The Settlement at Sydney Cove 1788• Britain had used its colonies as a place to

send its unwanted convicts.• Since losing the War with the US Britain

had accumulated many unwanted convicts.

• Jamaica was no longer viable as Black slaves were cheaper. (& lasted longer!)

• Other Choices (Mosquito Coast) were too dangerous.

• The Thames Prison Hulks were a health hazard and unsightly.

• Strategic Value of Australia gave GB a presence in the South Pacific.

• Botany Bay to Sydney Cove• Demand for Trade with Maori. (Starvation)• Sealers and Whaling Gangs from 1792.• Timber trade from early 1790’s.• Sydney businessmen saw potential in NZ.• A number of these freedmen become

Pakeha-Maori and acted as intermediaries.

A ship arrives in Botany Bay


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Pacific Domination


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HISTORIOGRAPHY• Historiography is the comparison of TWO or more points of

view expressed by Historians over an event, issue or a person.

• Differences in opinion can often be related to the available evidence which made a point of view valid at that time, but which subsequently may be undermined or viewed differently by new evidence. i.e. The Maori(?) Wars.

• Sometimes a point of view will relate to the values which existed at the time, i.e. the role of women.

• Often a Historian will express a particular point of view based on their religious, political or economic beliefs, adding bias to their decisions.

• i.e. Marxism.• When studying an event or issue you should read widely

enough to be able to identify the Historiography that may be attached to it. You many also be asked to judge which of the views has the most validity.


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Early Contact 1800 -1840• Sealers 1792

• Ocean Whalers 1806

• Bay Whalers 1820’s

• Intermediaries 1799

• Missionaries 1814

• Government Officials 1833

Sealing 1792 - 1812• Southern Fur Seals soon provided

a good source of income for Australian merchants.

• Seal Skins were a valuable commodity valued in both London and in China.

• Sydney traders had a ready supply of freed convicts willing to work for them.

• In 1792 the first Sealing gang were left at Dusky Sound.

• Conditions were atrocious and dangerous.

• More gangs followed although many sealers feared Maori – some were eaten.

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Sealing: Dangerous Work

• A number of Sealers were killed by Maori.

• This appears to have been a tit-for-tat attacks by a ships captain called Kelly after he cheated Maori in trading.

• Maori initally assumed all Europeans were of the same tribe andtook their utu against any other Europeans who arrived.

• Sealing Gangs also faced Traders who went bust and forgot them or Captains who found better opportunities elsewhere.

• One gang was found 4 years after being dropped off. Their captain had found something more lucrative!

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Sealing: A Hard Life on the Beach

• They rarely had enough food or any shelter apart from coastal caves or canvas.

• Thomas Brady sued his employer for £90 in 1814 after being left for 13 months with only 6 weeks rations. He was awarded £25.

• David Loweriston survived on one biscuit a day, rotting seal meat and various roots and ferns. In 11 months his crew had procured 17,000 seal skins but only ½ were useable by the time they were rescued.

• James Caddell was captured by Maori in 1810 aged 16, he married and became tattooed and acted as an intermediary with later sealing crews. He traveled to Sydney at least once but disappeared sometime after 1826..


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The first SealersArrived at Dusky Cove1792

Sealing 1792-1812

Seals were uneconomic by 1812 although it had a brief revival in the 1820’s .

A few Sealers settled in the south, traded with Maori, and purchased land. (Johnny Jones)

Fur Seals are rarely found north of the Wairarapa

There were few Ngai TahuSettlements on the West Coast

Some trading for Muskets here gave some Ngai Tahu the ability to fight back against Ngati Toa in the 1830’s. (Bloody Jack & Taiaroa).

Sealing Voyages to NZ


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‘Bloody’ Jack

• Hone Tuhawaiki of Ngai Tahu in Otago achieved fame through his use of the term when dealing with Europeans.

• Ngai Tahu in Otago & Southland were able to acquire muskets from Sealers and Whalers.

• Together with Taiaroa he also had a reputation as a fierce fighter defeating Ngati Toa on several occasions.

• In the mid 1830’s they were able to drive Ngati Toa into seeking a truce.


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Impact of Sealing

• In the scheme of things there were few Sealers.

• The trade was driven by Sydney based traders.

• Most were sojourners and stayed only long enough to earn a living.

• They tended to frequent coastal area with few Maori.

• They had little to trade which gave them little value to Maori.

• Few were educated and they left little record of their meetings or interaction with Maori.

• Some like Johnny Jones stayed diversifying into farming whaling, shipping and trading.

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Some of Jones farm buildings


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Whaling

Ocean Whaling 1800-184

• Whaling is an industry based around the hunting and killing of Whales.

• Whales were killed at sea and butchered (flensed) next to the ship.

• Whale blubber was boiled (rendered) down into oil and used in Industry or to light street lamps.

• The Bone was used to make corsets or riding whips.

• Initially Whaling was carried out from ships which were mobile factories.

• By the 1790’s whales were running out in the Atlantic ocean.


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Whaling Grounds


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Whaling Ships: Spermaceti• Whaling ships came from Britain, France

and the USA. (Nantucket)• They were between 100-500 tonnes in

size.• The ships were often at sea for 2-3 years.• Crews were between 20 and 50 in size.• They were often supplemented by new

members from the islands and many Maori joined the crews (Queequeg from Moby Dick?) Ruatara in 1806.

• Passing through the whaling fields they would send Whaling boats to harpoon the whales (Nantucket Sleigh ride)

• When the Whale was dead it was towed back to the ship to be cut up (flensed)

• The Sperm Whales (Catchalot) were the most highly prized of catches.

• Sperm whales contained ‘Spermaceti’ oil in their head (buckets)


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The Essex


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The Essex


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Moby Dick


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Flensing: A whale is cut up next to the Ship


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Peeled like an Orange….


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The Division of a Whale

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Ocean Whaling and New Zealand

• From 1799 American ships began to arrive in the Pacific.

• Being away from home meant they needed somewhere to rest, recuperate and find fresh food and water.

• Sydney was closed to them.• International tensions still lingered

over the War of Independence.• The British demanded taxes and

high prices for provisions.• Officials in Sydney were also

notoriously corrupt.• New Zealand offered an alternative.• By 1806 they were using a small

village in the Bay of Islands called Kororareka.

Kororareka

Ambergris

http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/thiswayup/20070217

Kororareka: Hellhole of the Pacific

• Kororareka was in an area dominated by the Nga Puhi.

• They soon recognized the importance of this trade opportunity.

• They began to supply food, water and timber in exchange for the trade goods the Whalers carried.

• They expanded from pork and basics to include pumpkin onions and corn.

• They did not view prostitution in the same way and exchanged their women for trade especially the growing trade in muskets.

• By the 1830’s hundreds of ships were calling into the bay each year.

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Europe & the Hokianga

• As it grew Sydney needed good quality timber.

• Merchants recognised the potential in spars of Kauri.

• Many ships that carried convicts to Sydney also needed a cargo for the voyage back to Britain.

• The Hokianga offered high quality timber and a safe harbour.

• Ngapuhi in the area began a trade in supplying timber and flax to them.

• They offerd timber and the labour to cut it.

• While not as lucrative as Kororareka this still gave Hokianga hapu access to traders and guns.

• This allowed them to be powerful allies to their eastern relations.

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Violence at Whangaroa 1809• Belich has made the point that

there were thousands of interactions with Maori and only a few became violent.

• Whangaroa Harbour is a little north of the Bay of Islands.

• The 1809 Boyd Incident caused a short downturn in Whaling activities as Europeans avoided the area for a few years.

• The lack of European understanding of Maori and view that they were all the same is reflected in the confusion and subsequent deaths of both European and Maori.

• Maori unwillingness to lose their trade and European needs meant that by 1812 the Whalers had returned.

The Boyd Diorama


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The Boyd Incident 1809

The Impact of the Ocean Whalers

• Ocean Whalers congregated in and around Kororareka.

• Between 1806 and 1840 thousands of whalers interacted with Maori.

• As many as a dozen ships were in port at one time by the 1830’s.

• They introduced new foods, goods, diseases and technologies especially the musket.

• Potatoes and Muskets changed the way warfare was waged and its effects.

• Hongi Hika became the most feared Chief in the north.

• Other Iwi actively sought their own sources of trade in order to acquire muskets.

• Traders and Missionaries became important commodities.

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Bay Whaling and Shore Whaling• Some whalers realised that Whales

were migratory.• They chose to stay close to shore

and wait for the Whales to pass by.• Later entrepreneurs realised the ship

itself was an expensive and unnecessary part if the equation.

• Shore stations were set up as a cheaper alternative, the first by Jacky Guard at Te Awaiti about 1828-9.

• There about 70 stations strung along the East coast and the Cook strait.

• This gave them a greater impact upon more Iwi than Ocean whalers.

• They often doubled as traders supplying local Maori with goods.

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1830’s Shore Based Whaling• Shore based Whaling stations began to

emerge because they were cheap to run. • The stations were cheaper to run than ships

or their crews.• The season lasted from May to September. • Stations proliferated along the eastern

seaboard from Cape Runaway to Stewart Island.

• Ships called at the end of the season to collect whalebone and oil.

• They employed local Maori who were happy to have a chance to trade.

• This meant European ideas and goods were more widely available.

• In many areas Pakeha took Maori wives (Dicky Barrett) and became intermediaries

The Right Whale was most commonly caught by Shore Whalers.


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Southern Right Whale


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Thoms Whaling Station, Paremata


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Jillet’s Whaling Station


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The Whaling Station at Kapiti (Jilletts)


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Dusky Cove

KororarekaSealers and Whalers

Shore Whaling Stations

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The Effect on Maori• The effect on Maori economy was huge and

has not always been recognised. • Sealing had a limited effect because of the

small numbers involved and the relative remoteness of their activities.

• They did open up the Maori in these areas, to the possibility that trade with Europe could be beneficial.

• Whaling had a much greater effect. With so many ships calling into Kororareka and other ports. With so much cash and goods changing hands the Nga Puhi in particular became rich and powerful.

• Trade encouraged the Maori to diversify. They recognised the needs and wants of the Whaling crews and catered to them.

• They changed their agriculture and found the new foods to their own taste. They accepted new tools and clothing.

• Increasingly by the 1840’s they were becoming comfortable with a cash economy.

• Shore Whalers expanded the areas of influence or interaction.


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Assessing the Impact of Sealers and Whalers

1. How did Sealers and Whalers impact on Maori?

2. Which areas of New Zealand were most affected by Sealers?

3. Why was their interaction with Maori limited?

4. Which areas were initially affected by (Ocean) Whalers?

5. Why was their interaction with Maori more marked than Sealers?

6. Which Iwi was best placed to benefit from this interaction?

7. Give one example of misunderstanding between Maori and European that resulted in bloodshed.

8. Which areas benefited from the Shore Based Whalers?

9. How did the Maori world view change over time with their contact with Whalers?


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Pakeha-Maori: the Intermediaries• One group who have largely been

ignored are a group called Pakeha-Maori.

• These were Pakeha who actively joined Maori.

• The first are reported in 1799.

• Almost all offered something to the Iwi/Hapu they affiliated with.

• This was often in the way of translators for trade.

• They were often assimilated into the culture learning the language and customs, marrying, being tattooed, fighting and taking part in cannibal feasts.

• Some became Slaves, Warriors, Tohunga and even Chiefs.


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Pakeha – Maori as Intermediary

• They were for a short time very important in Maori-Pakeha relations as they were able to assist later arrivals to as intermediaries between them and the Maori.

• They have been underrated because they left little written record and were considered rude and uncouth, and often criminal by Missionary’s.

• Many were in fact former (or even current) convicts from Australia or had jumped ship.

• Most diliked Britain and the Missionaries.• Missionary reports are often biased against

the Intermediaries influence on Maori. • Although they were mainly British their

number included a number of African (Americans?) and Bengalis (Indians).


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Pakeha Maori• Most of those below fell into more than one grouping:

• Mokai Pakeha: Slaves or Curiosities (1800-14) Thomas Taylor & Ngati Paoa• Convict Pakeha: (1814-) Dicky Barrett, Jacky Guard • Taurekareka Pakeha: Assimilated as low born/Men without Mana (1816-)• Pakeha Toa: Warrior Pakeha (1801-) George Bruce Nga Puhi 1806• Tohunga Pakeha: Jacky Marmon 1820; Kimble Bent 1881(!)• Renegades: A general description for those who fled European Culture.• Trader Pakeha Maori:(1830) Charles Marshall & Barrett 1832, Phillip Tapsell• Rangatira Pakeha: (5) James Caddell, John Rutherford, Barnet Burns.• Wahine`Pakeha Maori: (1800-40) Catherine Hagerty, Charlotte Badger. • Whaler Pakeha Maori (1827- ) Joseph Price, Marmon, Barrett, Jillett.

• “Pakeha Maori” Trevor Bentley Penguin 1999

Frederick Maning


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The Missionaries

The CMS in Sydney

• The Church Missionary Service was the evangelising arm of the Anglican Church.

• It sought to convert Heathen Natives to their Christianity.

• In Sydney, Samuel Marsden led the CMS.

• He struggled to make any headway with local Aboriginals.

• In 1806 he met Ruatara a Nga Puhi chief.

• Ruatara spent some time at his farm in Paramatta learning agricultural skills.

• Meeting him and Te Pahi convinced Marsden that Maori were suitable for conversion.

• Marsden began to petition(ask) for permission to start a Mission station in New Zealand.


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Missionaries & Marsden


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Missionaries: Civilise & Convert• Initially this permission was refused because of

the Boyd Affair.• Bu Marsden persisted.• Ruatara even returned to find out how to grow

Wheat.• Missionary work was often based on the

Humanitarian ideals of protecting natives from the worst effects of European society.

• They believed they had a special mission to convert the Heathen and saw this as an opportunity to fulfil this ‘good work’.

• Civilising would lead to Conversion. • Teaching Maori all that was good about

civilisation would lead them to its religion.• They discouraged many practices including,

polygamy and trading in guns.• .


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The First Mission Station: Rangihoua

• In 1814 he was finally allowed to send a group to New Zealand.

• He chose Kendall Hall & King to go to Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands.

• This was in an area controlled by Ruatara.

• It was on the northern edge of the Bay well away from the settlement of Kororareka.

• It proved unsuitable and other sites were later established at Kerikeri and Paihia.

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1814 - Marsden's Arrival

“As he stepped ashore, a weird scene was enacted. On the hill opposite the landing place a band of naked warriors, armed with clubs and spears, occupied a commanding position. After a pause a native advanced flourishing a red mat and crying, "Haromai!" ("Come hither!") The warriors then advanced. Some of them wore necklaces made of the teeth of their slaughtered foes, while others were adorned with strings of money they had plundered from foreigners they had murdered on that very beach. Seizing their spears they brandished them, screaming and yelling with savage fury. Every face was fiercely distorted and every limb employed in the wildest gesticulation. This was their war-dance. But their chiefs declared that it meant a welcome to one they considered a friend and a wonder-worker. This latter impression arose in part from the fact that they had never seen a horse; accordingly, when Marsden brought a horse from the ship, mounted and rode it, the people's amazement knew no bounds.”

Marsden arrives in the Bay of Islands


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Missionary Reality• Ruatara died in 1815 and Hongi Hika

replaced him as protector.• Hika initially viewed the Missionaries more

pragmatically.– They provided a good supply of tools

and trade goods and education.– They showed the Whalers and Traders

that they were a safe place to visit – increasing trade opportunities.

• Hika generally supported the Missionaries until his visit to England in 1820.

• Missionaries for their part relied on the Maori for protection and food as well as help in learning the language.

• They were often at the mercy of wandering Maori toa.

• Other important Missionary groups included the Wesleyans (1830’s)and the Catholics (1838)

History: Marsden Vs. Kendall• History has been kind to Marsden.

• It has been less so to Kendall.

• Marsden has been portrayed as a saint like figure who was a formidable evangelist, with only occasional references to his reputation as the ‘flogging parson’. “Greatheart of Maoriland” & “Apostle of the Maori”

• However he seems to have been far more vindictive, racist and venial than most histories would have us believe.

• He often preached one thing while doing otherwise. He actively traded muskets while refusing to allow his followers to do so.

• His actions 1814-22 and support for Hall constantly undermined Kendall’s leadership and ability to do as was expected.

• Kendall lacked the qualities to lead but Marsdens interference made his mission almost impossible.

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Trials and Tribulations…• The Missionaries faced several problems.

• Rangihoua was relatively isolated from large Maori settlements, it was closer to areas dominated by Hika.

• Marsdens vision of civilse and convert did not work in reality creating tensions.

• None of the original Missionaries were ordained Ministers.

• Kendall and Hall could not work together.

• When Maori discovered that Missionaries themselves had little to trade they lost respect for them, this was compounded by their unwillingness to trade muskets.

• Some Missionaries felt Hongi Hika impeded their ability to convert. (in most cases it required a Rangatira of Hika’s status to convert before others would follow).

• Missionaries often failed to understand the nuances of Maori culture and language.


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Waikato, Hongi and Kendall

Kendall helped Marsden set up the Mission Station in the Bay of Islands . He was responsible for the first school which opened in 1816 and for the earliest attempts at turning the Maori language into a written language. In 1820 he travelled to England with the Chiefs Waikato and Hongi. He later left the mission after allegations of Adultery with a former student.

On his return to New Zealand Hongi would lead the Nga Puhi in a war of conquest on the tribes south of the Bay of Islands, sparking the Musket Wars.

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Slings and Arrows…

• Before 1830 Maori were indifferent to the Missionaries once they realised their limitations.

• Reliant upon their Maori sponsors (Hika) Kendall and his peers struggled to make any impact.

• The three lay preachers were often at odds and rarely co-operated.

• Carpentry and Ropemaking were of limited use while Hika saw little use for literacy.

• Missions were often at the mercy of any passing Maori, who treated them with disdain.

• The Wesleyan Mission at Whangaroa was abandoned after being ransacked.

• Kendalls fall from grace tended to reinforce their weaknesses in Maori eyes.

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1823: Henry & William Williams• Henry Williams was a former naval officer and brought

more mana to the Mission when he arrived in 1823.

• He was able to act as a peacemaker on several occasions In the same year Henry supervised the building of trading vessel ‘the Herald’, this allowed them to visit and trade with other Iwi.

• His brother William arrived in 1826 and worked hard to learn the language. He then educated Maori in both Maori and English.

• In 1834 William Colenso, a printer arrived the following year the New Testament was published in Maori.

• It was almost 15 years before a baptism was performed.

• Hika had seen the schoolhouses as more suited to slaves than warriors, so many were both literate and Christian when they returned home.

• From the early 1830’s Nga Puhi released their slaves who took their new found knowledge and literacy back to their whanau,

Rivals for Gods affection.

• There were many European groups who wanted to convert heathen natives to their version of Christianity upto the 1840.

• Initially they were British based and reflected the established church.

– Anglican Church groups - the CMS and LMS (mainly the islands)

– Wesleyan Church groups – the WMS.

• Later they were joined by French missionaries who offered the rival Catholic version of Christianity.

• Both groups were keen to ensure that Maori converted to their particular version of the Christian religion.

• Religious and nationalism fears meant Anglicans groups feared French influence amongst Maori

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Maori Responses to Christianity• The Nga Puhi became dominant through the

presence of the Missionaries.• Military conquest which resulted from Hongi

Hika’s campaigns made them rich and powerful. • Missionaries meant Trade which meant Muskets.• Other Tribes began to seek out the Missionaries

as they recognised the benefits that such a presence would give them.

• Conversions which had been VERY slow, but from the late 1820’s suddenly began to quicken.

• What do the Historians say about this phenomena?

– Read p12 of C of C for the Historiography.– War Weariness?– Disease?– Education?– Synthesis?

• How does this explain the Ngati Porou Conversions in the 1830’s?


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Conversion and its effects on Maori Society

• Cannibalism ceased.• Slavery was discouraged and

ended by the mid 1830’s• Tattooing began to disappear.• Body Painting diminished.• Clothing was more widely worn.• Observance of Sunday as a day of

worship became important• Monogamy became the norm.• Some synthesis of traditional Maori

beliefs and Christianity emerged. (Paphurihia)

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The Musket Wars

1806 - 1845

Traditional Warfare: Land & Women

• Traditional Maori warfare was based on short expeditions against neighbouring tribes.

• Politics meant that neighbours could be enemies and allies at different times.

• Expeditions had to be short because only small amounts of food (Kumara or Fern root) could be spared by the Iwi.

• This limited the time and distance that could be covered.

• War was waged for control of land or for women…

• It could also fought for food , mana or Utu.

• The arrival of Potatoes and Muskets changed everything.

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Ballara: Business as usual

• Warfare amongst the Maori was a normal state of affairs.

• Most warfare was based on the settling of scores, or the acquisition of scarce resources.

• Toa were part-timers.• Most ‘Taua’ were sent out in the months

when the gardens could be left unattended.

• They could only be absent for weeks at a time – most warfare was with neighbours.

• Utu might be left to fester for years or decades until a suitable opportunity arose.

• Angela Ballara believes the Musket wars were a simple extension of Maori warfare.


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Utu: The Venus 1806

• In 1806 the ‘Venus’ was stolen from Sydney and its crew fled to Kororareka.

• They kidnapped several Maori women and sailed south.

• The women were sold to the Whanau-a-Apanui & Nagti Maru who killed and ate them.

• News of this was deliberately sent to Ngapuhi.

• Distance made them feel safe.

• The women were related to Hongi Hika Pomare and Te Morenga, Ngapuhi chiefs

• It was taken as a great insult.

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The Wrath of Hika:Te Kai-a-te-Karoro

• In 1808 a young Hongi Hika took part in a Taua that intended attacking their neighbours the Ngati Whatua.

• They had 6 muskets with them.

• On beach near Dargaville at Moremorenui , the taua was ambushed.

• The Muskets proved to ineffectual.

• Two of Hikas brothers were killed.

• His sister sacrificed herself to save him.

• The Ngati Whatua toa who killed her, then disembowelled her and held up her uterus for him to see….

• Hika never forgave nor forgot this incident.

• He would have his utu.

• In 1815 he took control of the Missionaries and the musket trade


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Belich and the 3 Stages• Belich believes Iwi like Ngapuhi went

through three stages in the acquisition of muskets.

1. Owning some muskets giving them a small advantage over other tribes.

2. Owning many guns giving them a huge advantage over their enemies.

3. When their enemies also owned enough weapons to make attack and victory less certain – ie Equilibrium.These tribes then went on to attack their musket-less neighbours.

• In 1818 Hika had reached Level 1 but could not predict victory over the Ngati Whatua.


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The Amiowhenua Taua• In 1818 Hika and Te Morenga led two large taua

south to attack the tribes responsible for their relatives deaths.

• They had several dozen muskets.• The taua were away for 18 months and circled the

North Island.• Whanau a Apanui & Ngati Muru were special

targets.• Hika claimed to have destroyed 500 Kainga and

Pa.• He returned with 500 heads and 2000 slaves.• Ngati Toa and Ngati Whatuaalso took part in this

campaign.• Hika was biding his time and did not yet have a

clear advantage over the killers of his sister..• Te Rauparaha noted the potential of the Cook

Strait region, and after this expedition its small population.

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• In 1820 Hika travelled to London with Kendall.

• He wanted to acquire muskets form the Tower of London which contained a ‘thousand thousand muskets’

• He was disappointed but sold the gifts he received and used the money to buy at least 400 weapons.

• Hika had reached Level 2.

• He had the weapons and the advantage he needed to attack the Ngati Whatua.


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• Hika embarked upon a second Amiowhenua expedition.

• Hika used his new arsenal to attack the Ngati Whatua.

• They were routed and almost destroyed.

• The remnants were driven into exile with the Waikato tribes.

• He then went on to attack other tribes.

• An attack on the Arawa was almost thwarted by their withdrawal to Mokoia Island.

• Hika portaged his waka across land to lake Rotorua & attacked the ‘safe’ refuge.

• 3000 Arawa were killed in a day.


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Reaching Level 3: The 1820’s

• By the mid 1820’s Ngapuhi were encountering problems.

• Many of their enemies now had muskets and victory was no longer assured.

• The Waikato tribes especially blocked their path.

• Ngapuhi were now caught up with infighting amongst themselves (the Girls War)

• In 1828 Hika was injured in a fight with another Ngapuhi Hapu.

• He died from his wound in 1829.• The Musket wars he started raged on.• Other tribes like the Ngati Toa now

moved through Stages 1, 2 and 3


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Ngati Toa: Nga Heke• The Waikato reacted to attacks by

arming themselves.• Unable to attack Ngapuhi they chose

to settle old scores.• They attacked Ngati Toa to whom

they owed utu.• Te Rauparaha knew he could not

compete and took his tribe southward to Kapiti island.

• This Heke (journey) took them through hostile territory.

• The few muskets they owned gave them the advantage they needed.

• Along the way they picked up Te Atiawa and Ngati Mutunga who were also being threatened by Waikato

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Te Rauparaha & Ngati Toa

• The Ngati Toa were forced to flee from Kawhia by their Waikato kin.

• Te Rauparaha led them south armed with some muskets.

• They attacked many Iwi as they passed by.

• Ngati Toa eventually settled on Kapiti Island.

• He was able to monopolise the Whalers in the area he acquired muskets.

• With the aid of Te Atiawa and Ngati Mutunga he controlled most of the Horowhenua, Manawatu and Wairarapa.

• Te Atiawa recieved Wellington while Ngati Mutunga were given the Hutt Valley.

• In the 1820’s he also raided across the strait into the top of the South Island.

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• “He had carried fire and desolation and terminated his butcheries in horrid cannibal feasts, and left behind him a bloody, smoking trail of misery and tragedy.


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The Ngai Tahu: Kai Huanga

• Ngai Tahu occupied all of the South Island.

• Sealers and Whalers in the far south had traded muskets giving them an advantage over their northern relatives.

• Inter Hapu fighting in the early 1820’s weakened the tribe north of Banks peninsula. (Kai Huanga: Eat Relatives)

• Ngati Toa taua who ventured too far south encountered heavily armed southern Ngai Tahu and were defeated.

• At Kaiapoi a close friend of his was killed

• Te Rauparaha wanted revenge on them and sought external assistance.

• Ngai Tahu continued to control the valuable Pounamu trade.

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The Elizabeth Affair: 1830• Captain Stewart of the Elizabeth agreed to transport 150

Ngati Toa to Kaiapoi and Kaikoura in exchange for a cargo of flax.

• At Kaiapoi the local chief was lured aboard with his family and captured.

• The Ngati Toa then attacked the unprepared Pa and killed most of the inhabitants.

• They returned with some prisoners and food.• They tried again at Kaikoura but were only partially

successful.• The chief and his wife strangled their daughter.• After six weeks Stewart received his cargo and handed over

the prisoners.• The Chief and his wife were tortured and killed.• Ngai Tahu had meanwhile complained to the Governor• Stewart was arrested in Sydney then released when no

charges could be laid.• This caused outrage amongst Missionaries and other

‘respectable’ Europeans especially Humanitarians.• Calls were made for a stronger British presence in New

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The Harriet Affair: 1834• When the Harriet was wrecked in

1834, three of the passengers – Betty Guard and her two children – were taken hostage by some Ngāti Ruanui.

• The chief Oaiti rescued them and they lived contentedly with the Taranaki tribe for a time.

• Her husband Jacky went to Sydney seeking the ransom.

• Europeans, however, assumed that Betty and her children were prisoners, and the British ship Alligator was sent to rescue them.

• In the process its crew burned the Taranaki pā of Te Namu, and the Ngāti Ruanui pā of Ōrangituapeka and Waimate.

• They were the wrong Pa from the wrong tribe.

• This also caused outrage amongst many Europeans when news reached Sydney.

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Ngati Mutunga & Moriori 1835• In 1835 Ngati Mutunga and Ngati

Tama migrated off shore.

• In a move similar to Te Rauparaha they chartered a ship The Lord Rodney to take them to the Chatham Islands.

• Not expecting to return they gave away their lands in Wellington.

• They built a Pa expecting an attack

• The local 2500 Moriori chose not to fight against the invaders.

• Their culture was non-violent.

• Ngati Mutunga then cannibalised some and enslaved the rest.

• Disease and a ban on marriage wore them down.

• By 1900 there were almost no full blooded Moriori left.

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Results of the Musket Wars; The Accordion Effect

• Campaigns through Auckland, the Waikato and Bay of Plenty drove many tribes out of their traditional areas and into exile with extended family. (Ngati Whatua)

• Some regions were depopulated or emptied (Waitara), confusing issues of ownership.

• Nga Puhi and their allies returned north with significant booty and numerous slaves.

• Slaves enabled them to increase the amount they could grow for trade.

• Slaves were also used in prostitution and to placate the missionaries as they were allowed to attend mission schools.

• Many former slaves would later become missionaries amongst their own tribes.

Results of the Musket Wars:

• The development of a new type of Pa (The Modern Pa).

• The Wars increased demand for Missionaries and Traders.

• Tribes changed their way of life and culture in the rush to supply traders with the flax, pigs, potatoes or timber required to acquire guns.

• This was often at the cost of their health.• The wars petered out in the early 1830’s as

more and more tribes obtained guns and were able to defend themselves. (Belichs 3rd stage)

• REFER: “The Making of a Colony” • Pages 6 -7. • On a Map of NZ indicate the Tribes that were

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William Yate on Slaves• William Yate, one of the early CMS missionaries in the

Bay of Islands, noticed Māori enthusiasm for learning to read and write. He wrote,

• ‘Persons who have been made prisoners of war, and enslaved by the Bay-of-Islanders, have been educated in the Mission Schools; and then, having by some means obtained their freedom, or having received permission, from the chief to whom they belonged, to depart for a season, have visited their friends; and, carrying with them their little stock of knowledge, have at once commenced the work of instruction, and have been readily and eagerly attended to by the whole people.’


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European Concerns: Frontier of Chaos• While New Zealand was beyond

their Empire Britain was only peripherally concerned at the wars which raged across the land.

• Missionaries as the ‘eyes and ears’ on the ground reported back on the proceedings.

• Europeans were supplying guns powder and shot and occasionally taking part in fighting.

• The CMS had important connections in the Colonial Office. (Stephen) and within the Government (Wilberforce)

• They were especially scathing of the whalers and traders who supplied the weapons.

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European Concerns: Humanitarianism

• Humanitarianism developed from the idea that Native people were equal to Europeans and deserved to be treated as such.

• It became an important part of the CMS mission.

• The Harriet affair, the Elizabeth Incident and Ngati Mutunga’s invasion alarmed them because of the negative influence Europeans were having.

• Captain Stewarts escape outraged many and led directly to the appointment of James Busby as Resident.


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Reasons not to have a new Colony• Britain had lost the War of Independence in

1776. • It had been a hard and expensive fight. • 70 years later it looked upon new colonial

ventures with suspicion.• Subsequent wars in North America, Africa and

Asia had tended to emphasise that this ideas. • Colonies were expensive and difficult to run.

Especially where natives and colonists might come into conflict, requiring a military presence.

• A colony needed to be resource rich in order to justify the expense of maintaining any military presence or administration.

• The Convict Settlements in Sydney, Hobart and Norfolk island were seen as a justifiable and necessary requirement to solve their own social ills.

• They already had a base in the South Pacific (Sydney) and did not see an urgent need to expand beyond New South Wales.

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Jurisdiction and Responsibility• A major problem for Britain lay in the fact that New

Zealand lay beyond its jurisdictional control.• Britain could not control other Western nationalities

either… principally French or American traders and whalers.

• Outrages against Maori alarmed the growing Humanitarian movement.

• Several attempts were made to extend British authority to New Zealand.

• In 1814 Kendall was appointed as Magistrate.• In1823 jurisdiction of British courts was extended to

include its citizens in New Zealand. • Missionaries continued to agitate for an increased

British presence and complained of growing French and American interest in the islands.

• In 1839 James Clendon was appointed American Consul.

• Events in the 1830’s would see both the Humanitarian and Imperial fears become more real.

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Dragging Britain into New Zealand.

• Belich has said that events in the 1830’s ‘dragged Britain into New Zealand.

• How accurate is this view?– Britain had a perfectly adequate colony in Australia.– New South Wales had plenty of available land for

settlement.– It had little problem with the Aborigines.– There was little need for a large military presence.– What exactly did New Zealand offer?– Why would the Colonial Office suddenly feel that Britain

should take a greater interest in the country?– How valid were concerns over French and American

intentions?– How important was the CMS and its influence over

Colonial Office officials?– What importance can be attached to Planned Settlement

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The Missionary Influence

• By the1830’s Marsden from his vantage point in Sydney began to argue for increased British presence in New Zealand.

• Other Missionaries (Kendall, Yate & Williams) also sent communications to the CMS about the undue influence of Europeans on Maori culture and society.

• They emphasised the unruly bevaviour in and around Kororareka, as well as incidents like the Harriet, Elizabeth and the invasion of the Chathams.

• Their worries were well known within the Colonial Office.

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The Petition to King William: 1831• In 1831 the French (War) Ship ‘La Favourite’

arrived in Kororareka.• Its mission was to survey French traders and

potential trade sources in the Pacific.• It spent some time surveying part of the

coastline.• Local Missionaries panicked.• One in particular William Yate gathered 13

chiefs and had them sign a letter (often called the Petition) to King William.

• It called for the extension of the Kings protection to New Zealand.

• Although presented as representing all of NZ the colonial offices reply was to turn down the opportunity.

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Pressure in NSW• The reports of European behaviour in

Kororareka raised concerns in NSW.• Thomas McDonnell a trader in the

Hokianga also made a case for an increased British presence by the appointment of a Magistrate or Consul.

• Newspapers began to agitate for New Zealand’s included in the ‘Australian Empire’, a representative of some sort was seen as necessary as trade with NSW continued to increase.

• Although concerned, Governor Darling did nothing before being replaced.

• His replacement, Bourke was greeted with a mountain of correspondence of (mainly) Missionary concerns about New Zealand.

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1833 Britain concedes

• Under pressure the Colonial Secretary Goderich reluctantly authorised the appointment of a resident to New Zealand.

• A Resident was the lowest and cheapest form of representation possible.

• The Residents main job was to protect British interests, foster commercial opportunity and help to reduce barriers to trade.

• He was supposed to be the moral centre of British Law, although he had no means of enforcing his or Britain’s will.

• The Resident was NOT supposed to become involved in Native affairs.

• He had no powers to create legislation, raise taxes or an army or to enforce British Law.

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A Resident: James Busby• Busby appears to have had a fairly interesting

personality. No-one liked him.• He seems to have been an pompous, ambitious

sycophant.• He bombarded Bourke and the Colonial office with

requests for office.• Bourke seems to have chosen Busby in order to rid

himself an annoyance.• He was named as "Official British Resident" in May

1833.• In part, James Busby's orders were to organise the

Maori chiefs into a united body, capable of controlling the growing instability of the situation in New Zealand concerning unregulated land sales and settlements.

• Bourke resented Busby so much he refused to supply either the housing or the soldiers that Busby expected.

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A new Flag: 1834• Ever since the first contacts Europeans and later Maori had

constructed ships.

• The traders and Maori realised that more profit could be made if the middleman could be avoided, and so ships were built to supply the Sydney market.

• Unfortunately such ships were unregistered and could be subject to confiscation.

• As vessels without a home port the Navy was also under no obligation to protect them from attack by Pirates (or French or American attack)

• Busby could not help himself and became involved in New Zealand’s affairs.

• Busby assembled 35 local chiefs and had them choose a flag (from three designs.)

• The Flag was recognised in London and gazetted by the Admiralty.

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1835: The Declaration

• In 1835 the Colonial Office also appointed Thomas McDonnell as a Resident.

• Meanwhile the power seems to have gone to Busby’s head and he contemplated creating a ‘confederation’ of chiefs to represent the Islands.

• Governor Bourke was considering withdrawing him because of his failings.

• In October Busby received a letter from Baron de Theirry indicating his intention to settle as ‘King’ on the land he had purchased from Hongi in 1821.

• Panicking Busby drew up the declaration and had it signed within 36 hours.

• It declared New Zealand a sovereign state under Maori rule.

• The Colonial office were unhappy at Busby exceeding himself once again.

• But again they recognised the document…

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Growing Concerns.

• From 1835 Busby and the Missionaries continued to bombard the Colonial Office with their concerns about New Zealand.

• In 1837 Busby sent a report to the Secretary of State for Colonies, informing the British authorities of the greatly increasing land purchases not only by settlers from New South Wales, but also from French and American citizens.

• Because of drought Australian squatters were also beginning to arrive in the south searching for new land to farm.

• Many of their deals were of questionable validity.

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The Colonial Office• In 1836 Sir James Stephen became Secretary of the

Colonial Office.• This would make him the most powerful person in the

Empire for the next 25 years.• He had a strong involvement in the CMS and was a

committed evangelical Christian.• Initially they grappled with problems in India and ignored

New Zealand to which Britain had no obligations.• This was possible while NZ was thinly populated with a few

traders and missionaries.• In 1837 a new incarnation of the NZ Association

emerged. It threatened Britains ability to remain disengaged.

• EG Wakefield wrote on the subject of Migration and was an acknowledged expert on the topic.

• His proposed scheme promised to bring thousands of migrants to New Zealand.

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• The 1837 House of Commons Committee of Aborigines in British Settlements acknowledged that further British settlement was likely, and recommended that extension of British sovereignty was necessary only to enable British law to be applied to British settlers, who at the time '...were amenable to no laws or tribunals of their own..

• Sir James Stephen, whose influence in Colonial Office policy was arguably singularly more pervasive than that of any other person during the late 1830s, also favoured the establishment of a ruling body to in New Zealand which would govern '...the Anglo Saxon Race...' in order to prevent conflict between Europeans and Maori.

British Intervention 1837.

James Stephen in 1839

• In 1839, Stephen emphasised an important point in the establishment of New Zealand as a colony was'...the introduction among the colonists of the principle of self Government.'

• Later in1839, Stephen wrote about the establishment of some suitable British authority in New Zealand:

“...circumstances have transpired which have further tended to force upon Her Majesty's Government the adoption of measures for providing for the government of the Queen's subjects resident in or resorting to New Zealand [author's italics].”


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Normanby's Instructions• In May 1839, Lord Normanby (Colonial Secretary)

and Stephens boss, wrote to the British Attorney General, recommending that jurisdiction of British government in New Zealand would be limited to the rule over British settlers.

• Normanby wrote of the need to establish – '...some system for governing the numerous body of

British subjects [author's italics] who have taken up their abode in the New Zealand Islands...'.

• The British annexation and acquisition of sovereignty over New Zealand therefore has to be considered in the context of Britain’s desire to extend rule only over the settler population, whilst retaining a nominal claim to governing the entire country.


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Annexation

• Wakefields scheme coincided with the 1837 House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines in British Settlement.

• The Committee recommended the protection of natives was the Governments responsibility in areas where British Settlements existed.

• It also suggested that sales by Natives would be void unless confirmed by the Government.

• A final recommendation was to deny access to land to Land Trading Companies (i.e. The NZ Association / Company)

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The French Threat

• Busby continued on as Resident despite the limitations of his personality and the support he received from Sydney.

• He was criticised for doing too little and for doing too much..

• In 1837 de Thierry arrived, he was more of a failure than Busby but this sparked a mild panic in London.

• In 1838 the Catholics also arrived creating unease amongst the CMS and WMS missions.

• Increasingly the Missionaries began to agitate for an increased British presence in New Zealand.

• The French threat was not only colonial but also eclesiastical.

• The appointment of a Consul by the British Government is one of the most important indications of the intent of the British to curtail the extent of British rule in New Zealand.

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• The 1838 House of Lords Select Committee on New Zealand heard evidence of the best way of dealing with the situation.

• Missionaries felt that Maori would not give up their independence, while representatives of the NZ Association felt (hoped) otherwise.

• Eventually the Committee recommended that the country be annexed but that the natives be protected.

• Lord Normanby decided to post Hobson to the position of Consul in New Zealand.

• Hobson had already visited NZ in 1838 on the behalf of the Government and recommended establishing a ‘Factory’ system.

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Hobson and the Treaty• The responsibility for securing British

sovereignty through the treaty-making fell on William Hobson, a naval captain who was appointed Lieutenant Governor.

• Initially he carried instructions form the Colonial Office.

• These were to be turned into a formal treaty and translated.

• Hobson relied on the advice and support of a number of missionaries working in New Zealand, principally Henry Williams.

• In drafting the English text Hobson was assisted by his secretary, James Freeman, and by James Busby, the British Resident, who had arrived to in 1833 and had been located at Waitangi since then.

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Wants and Expectations

WANTS

Maori wanted to …• Reinforce their Authority /

Rangatiratanga• Reinforce their Economic

Advantage• Ensure smooth Race Relations

Europeans wanted

• Settlers desired access to land• Missionaries had Humanitarian

concerns.• Traders unhappy at interference/tax• The Crown concerns over future

conflict

EXPECTATIONS

Maori expected…to retain control over their lands and

to retain their mana.

The Crown expected…to take full control over all of the

country including its resources.

Settlers expected... The Crown to make land available.

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February 5 - 6 1840

• Busby and local missionaries supported Hobson with the meeting at Waitangi, which commenced on 5 February.

• Discussion was mixed. Some supported the treaty others (including traders) opposed it.

• Talk was adjourned for the day and recommenced the next morning.

• By this time food was running short and some chiefs were preparing to leave.

• Hobson reconvened the meeting and called for signatures.

• Over a six-month period in 1840 additional signatures of chiefs in various places around New Zealand were obtained.

• In addition to Hobson, negotiators included some of his officials, CMS and WMS missionaries, military men, and a trader.


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Te Tiriti in a Nutshell

• The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement made in 1840 between the British Crown and eventually over five hundred Maori chiefs.

• The wording of the treaty in English indicated that the chiefs were ceding to Britain the sovereignty of New Zealand and were giving the Crown an exclusive right of pre-emption of such lands as the Maori wished to sell.

• In return, the Maori were guaranteed full rights of ownership of their lands, forests, fisheries and other prized possessions.

• In addition, the treaty promised them the rights and privileges of British subjects, together with assurances of Crown protection.

• The Maori version says the chiefs gave away Kawanatanga (Governorship).

• The second article gave them Rangatiratanga (Chieftainship) over their lands.

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The Language Problem• Most chiefs signed the treaty written in Maori,

hastily translated from English text by Henry Williams and his son Edward.

• Only 35 signed the English version.• The treaty in Maori was deemed to convey the

meaning of the English version. • Subsequently it was taken for meetings

elsewhere in the north and at Auckland, and was then copied several times for additional signing meetings round the country.

• Williams said he had done his best to translate the English text but for some words he had no exact Maori equivalent. (Kawanatanga)

• Oral explanations might have clarified the intent and likely outcomes of the treaty, but it appears they did not do so.

• Maori understanding, therefore, was at odds with that of the negotiating Europeans. Henry Williams 1865

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Kawanatanga means…

Tamati Waka Nene

William Williams was a better speaker of te Reo but was away on business.Henry Williams had trouble with some terms. One word Williams appears to have created was Kawanatanga.This term is used in the Maori draft in the first Article.Kawanatanga meaning Governorship was used in the Maori version but the Chiefs would have had little understanding of its meaning.It meant control NOT ownership.Thus they had little idea of what they were being asked to give up.

Look up the words Sovereign and Governor in the dictionary – what do they mean? How do they differ?


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Rangatiratanga means…There is no exact Maori translation of the word Sovereignty. In the second article the Crown promises the Chiefs full chieftainship (Rangatiratanga) over their villages and lands.The most appropriate term would have been ‘Mana’ but the chiefs would never have agreed to give this up.

Pre-emption - The Crown will also be able to buy land which is offered to them for sale, at an agreed price. Whether Maori could later offer the land to other buyers was unclear.

For an interesting view on the language in the Treaty read the article by Bruce Biggs “Humpty Dumpty and the Treaty” in the Reading Extension.

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Spreading the Treaty Gospel• Following a day of heated debate at the house of

James Busby, the British Resident, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands on 6 February 1840 by Captain William Hobson, several English residents and approximately forty-five Maori chiefs.

• The influential chief Tamati Waka Nene turned the debate in favour of the Treaty.

• The first Maori to sign was Hone Heke; three other chiefs placed their signature above his later that day.

• The document signed at Waitangi was then taken to various other Northland locations to obtain additional Maori signatures.

• To extend Crown authority over parts of the North Island that had not yet been covered, and the South Island, a further seven copies of the Waitangi document were sent around the country for signing.

• The Church Missionary Society press at Paihia, near Waitangi, printed copies of the Treaty and one of these also was used to obtain further signatures


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Treaty: False Expectations• The Maori believed the Treaty

would now control the Settlers, that Land deals would be settled and that settler behaviour would be controlled in the areas where they had settled.

• They believed that their mana and status was protected and that their traditional way of life would continue where they lived.

• They appear to have had little appreciation of the numbers of Settlers who were about to arrive, demanding land.

• The Settlers for their part believed that the Treaty now made all Maori subject to British law and that this would free up land for settlement.

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Conflict in the 1840’s• The Wairau Incident• The Northern Wars• The Hutt Valley War• The Wanganui War

Arthur Wakefield

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The 1843 Wairau IncidentWhen pressure from the ever increasing number of Settlers proved too much, the settlers at Nelson took charge. Claiming the nearby fertile Wairau valley they began to survey it. Te Rauparaha travelled south to support his kin who objected to this occupation.Ngati Toa burnt the huts and uprooted their surveying stakes. A warrant was issued for Te Rauparaha’s arrest. Athrur Wakefiled led a ‘posse’ to arrest Te Rauparaha. In the fight which followed 22 Europeans died. 17 were executed in utu.

Belich: The Wairau

A practical Reality

• The Neson steelers wanted Te Rauparaha and Rangihaeta punished.

• Fitzroy chose to hold an enquiry.

• He blamed Settlers and in particular Thompson and Wakefield for the deaths.

• He threw out the charge of Arson.

• He refused to punish the Maori for protecting their own property.

• Fitzroy did not have the economic or military power to challenge Ngati Toa.

• The Settlers were outraged at this.


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Hone and War in the North: 1845-6

• In the far north Hone Heke and Kawiti, rose in revolt against British authority.

• Heke feared that the Europeans would take all their land.

• He also felt aggrieved over the loss of mana and trade caused by the movement of the Capital to Auckland.

• He cut down the British flag on four occasions; on the last, both sides sacked Kororareka (Russell).

• The army mobilised.• Fortunately for the British many of Nga Puhi

(Hokianga) sided with the government.• Even so, the British had suffered a disastrous

defeat at Ohaeawai and Ruapekapeka.• The only defeat Heke suffered was at the

hands of is kin.Hone Heke and Kawiti

100 Top History Makers: Hone Heke

Intimidation & Frustration• Almost all of the battles fought in this war,

were done so at the initiative of the Maori.

• They built Pa in sites that had little value, were difficult to attack but easily abandoned.

• They defended nothing of value.

• The British tended to confuse occupation of these empty sites as proof of their victories.

• They also managed to completely disregard the complexities of their construction… trenches and bunkers virtually immune to musket and cannon fire.

• These Pa were the work of Kawiti who fought the majority of the war while Heke recovered from wounds received fighting against Hokianga Maori.

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Traditional Pa


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The Gunfighter Pa Technology


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The Gunfighter Pa


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Oheawai and Ruapekapeka

Ruapekapeka


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Kawiti’s Ohaewai Pa


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Attack at Okaihau

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A new broom: Sir George Grey• In 1840 he wrote a report for Lord John

Russell, the new secretary of state for the colonies, showing how the amalgamation of two races could be speedily effected.

• Aborigines were to be converted, brought under British law, and employed by white settlers, while the children were to be educated in boarding schools.

• Compulsory assimilation so impressed the secretary that he sent the report to the governors of the Australian and New Zealand colonies.

• In 1845 Grey was appointed governor of New Zealand. Arriving 1846.

• The government was so short of funds that the first governor, William Hobson, had drawn unauthorised bills on the British Treasury.

• His successor, Robert Fitzroy, had, contrary to instructions, issued government debentures, a form of paper money.

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• Grey had the financial support and the troops that had been denied to Fitzroy, whose efforts Grey disparaged, thus praising his own.

• Thereafter Grey left Heke and Kawiti alone, acquiescing in a partial Maori victory, although he loudly claimed victory.

• Grey reassured the Ngapuhi that no land would be confiscated.

• Grey claimed that a main cause for disaffection in the north had been the enormous land purchases made by some of the missionaries, whom he regarded as no better than land-jobbers.

• Settlers in Wellington had been upset since Wairau and were calling for assistance in their dealing with Maori,

• Grey took his army south,

Te Rauparaha

Taking the fight South

1846-7 The Hutt Valley War• Rangihaeta and Te Rauparaha had

moved back to Wellington.• They disagreed with claims made by

the Settlers.• Ngati Toa continued to control Porirua

but ownersip of Wellington and the Hutt Valley was disputed.

• Grey chose to take the initiative.• He seized Te Rauparaha and

imprisoned him without trial for 18 months.

• The army then began to force Maori out of Wellington.

• Grey used his military advantage to initially empty the pa in Wellington then began evicting Maori from the Hutt Valley.

• Rangihaeta opposed Grey.


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Fort Richmond & Hutt Bridge(Tawa)


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The Battle of Boulcotts Farm• Ngati Mutunga had held the Hutt Valley but

left to invade the Chathams.• Ownership of the area then fudged.• As Belich notes in his Television Series, the

fighting in the Hutt valley was short and vicious.

• In retaliation Rangihaeta crossed from Porirua to attack Settler farms and strongholds.

• Rangiheata led resistance because his mana demanded payment for the land.

• This included the attack on Boulcotts farm.• Over time The 24 year old ‘Boy’ bugler who

courageously blew his trumpet became smaller and younger as his Maori attacker became larger and more aggressive.

• Rangihaeta was forced to retreat.


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Belich: The Hutt Valley & Wanganui


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Grey, McLean and Land• Grey's greatest success as a colonial

governor was probably his management of Maori affairs in the years 1845 to 1853.

• He gave every appearance of scrupulously observing the terms of the Treaty of Waitangi, and assured Maori that their rights to their land were fully recognised.

• Under the chief land purchase commissioner, Donald McLean, procedures were evolved for negotiating a sale at a tribal meeting.

• The meeting had to agree to the sale. Often large numbers of Maori signed the purchase agreement.

• The land then became Crown land and was sold to settlers at a profit, which provided significant government revenues Governor George Grey


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Planned Settlement

• The New Zealand Company– Wellington– Nelson– New Plymouth– Wanganui

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Planned Settlement

• From as early as 1825 speculative companies were started up with the intention of establishing colonies in New Zealand.

• Principal amongst these was the New Zealand Company led by the Wakefields.

• By 1838 pressure was beginning to build as they began to purchase land and hire ships for these settlements.

• The British Government was forced to review its policy towards New Zealand as it could not allow indiscriminate unmanaged settlement.

• It seemed inevitable that the Government would have to become involved in any disputes that might develop between these settlements and the Maori.

• It wanted to manage these situations.• Humanitarian concerns meant that it could not

always be accepted that the Settlers would always be in the right and that Maori interests must be protected.

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Wakefields Theory: Sufficient Price• Wakefield believed that past colonial ventures had

failed because land was to easily available. • He wanted to restrict this and by placing a “sufficient

price” on land force migrants to work before they could acquire the land.

• It is incorrect that Wakefield visualised colonies as close-knit squirearchies where wage-earners were the servitors of individual landowners: he saw wage-earners moving to proprietorship after three or four years, and enjoying, during the interim,.

• Social independence derived from a strong labour market.

• He wanted denser settlement, the only close-knit unit in the colony he explicitly talked about was the family, to which end he recommended that assisted immigrants consist of young married couples.

• Unfair, is the claim that Wakefield failed to stipulate what a 'sufficient price' was: he stated explicitly that it was to depend on local circumstances

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The Colour Bar Arrives• In the early part of any colonisation, the

colonists were male, and common law marriages with Maori women were common.

• As settlements became established and more women arrived this practice was actively discouraged – although it continued in isolated areas.

• This reflected a change in attitudes brought by the Settlers to New Zealand. They did not see the Maori as important and were only an impediment to progress. They had little time for the customs of the natives and expected them to assimilate or to move to the fringes.

• They were less inclined to negotiate with savages and expected the Imperial Government to intervene when that progress was hindered.


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The Colour Bar Descends • By 1858, the Settlers had gained parity

with the Maori, and a 'colour bar' was already in place.

• "...it cut across religious beliefs and good manners...it cut across law, and across ideals and affections". No longer did settlers take Maori wives, there was a distinct difference between the 'old' and the 'new' settler. (Turnbull p72)

• For many, the Maori were no longer a noble race to be admired but a hindrance to the development of New Zealand as a "British" country. "Empire" "Progress" and the "Law" were important.

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Te Kingitanga• A movement arose in the 1850s to establish a

Maori king to protect Maori land from alienation and to make laws to end internal strife.

• Tamihana Te Rauparaha had been to London and observed the position and power of the Queen.

• He also noted the unifying influence of the position.

• In 1852 Matene Te Whiwhi travelled throughout New Zealand seeking a chief of high standing who was willing to be king.

• His groups motto was “Whakakotahitanga,” “Union.”

• They proposed a confederacy of all the tribes, and that one chief should be appointed as King or Governor.

• Iwikau Te Heuheu Tukino III, of Ngati Tuwharetoa, suggested that Te Wherowhero of Tainui should be approached, and his choice was supported by Wiremu (the Kingmaker) Tamihana, of Ngati Haua.


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Te Wherowhero (Potatau)

• Te Wherowhero never regarded the kingship as being in opposition to the sovereignty of Queen Victoria, and wanted to work co-operatively with the government.

• In his speech of acceptance he stressed the spirit of unity symbolised by the kingship, likening his position to the 'eye of the needle through which the white, black and red threads must pass.' He enjoined his people to 'hold fast to love, to the law, and to faith in God.'

• Some of his associates, however, sought to prevent or hinder government activities in areas which supported the King.

• He died in 1860 and was succeeded by his son, Matutaera (Who took the name Tawhiao).

Te Wherowhero, Te Waru and Te Pakaru

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The Kingite Challenge• The King Movement threatened the principal of

Empire in several ways. • The King was a threat to the idea of British Authority

being paramount.• The King would unite the tribes, and their disunity

was their greatest weakness.• This had allowed the Europeans to establish

themselves in settlements and to move inland. • By prohibiting the sale of land the King inhibited the

European ability to acquire land they believed belonged to them.

• Settlers felt that the Kingites were bullying other Maori from selling their land.

• This threatened the Governors ability to raise revenue as land was bought cheaply and sold at a good profit to the settlers.

• This was the Governors most important source of revenue,


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Sovereignty and Control: What’ in a Name?

• The various names attached to the conflicts tend to indicate the current thinking about their causes

• The Maori Wars (1800’s)

• The Anglo-Maori Wars (1920’s)

• The New Zealand Wars (1930) - Cowan

• The Land Wars (1940’s)

• The New Zealand Wars (1990’s) - Belich

• The Land Wars (2009) - Survivors of the Wars Recorded in the early

20th C

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The Waitara Dispute 1858• In 1840 the NZ co had claimed

several million acres.

• Land Commissioner Spain had reduced the area around New Plymouth to only 4500 acres.

• By 1858 the pressure from the ever increasing settler population created a huge demand for land.

• The Government under Robert Gore Brown was unable to satisfy this demand.

• There was an increasing demand to deal with Maori resistance to British authority and to acquire the land required to allow expansion and development of the ‘waste’ land that surrounded many of the settlements


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Te Atiawa and the Waitara.

• Te Atiawa were not a united Iwi.

• Some wanted to sell land to the Europeans others refused.

• This disagreement led to fighting and deaths.

• Eventually by the late 1850’s a faction led by Te Teira were prepared to defy Wiremu Kingi and offer land at the Waitara.

• Settlers and the Government increasingly viewed the refusal to sell as barrier to civilisation.

• “Land League” and Kingitanga became synonymous.

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Governor Robert Gore Brown

Accepting the Challenge• When an offer of land (Teira) was

made in the Taranaki, then vetoed by other Maori (Kingi).

• The Governor took it as a chance to challenge the Maori (Kingite) authority.

• Despite some misgivings (from some settlers) the land was surveyed and when challenged the Governor replied with force.

• Kingi replied by building a Pa at te Kohia.

• The New Zealand Wars had begun.


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The War in the Taranaki 1860• Maori strategy at this time was important. • The first factor was the "Modern Pa" that was easily and

quickly built, and just as easily abandoned. The Pa's structure made it an effective counter to the British superiority in firepower.

• Kingi was given the time to build a Pa which contained a number of features that Kawiti had developed in the Northern War.

• Colonel Gold, who commanded the Imperial troops did not recognise them for what they were, commenting that the Pa was 'curiously hollowed out'. (Belich p.83).

• Built so that it was difficult to surround, was simply abandoned on March 17.

• This was to set the pattern for much of the New Zealand wars for the next few years,

• Maori intimidation and British frustration.• Yet the Maori did not actively seek a confrontation with

the British and simply used the Pa to draw them into situations from which they could be ambushed.

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“The Kingite Influence”• The second factor lay with the presence of

the Kingites. who made it possible for part-time warriors and farmers to fight a war against full-time professional soldiers.

• At any one time there were probably no fewer than 400 Kingite warriors and as many as 800 in January 1861. A few came from Tauranga, Rotorua, and Taupo, but the bulk were from the Tainui tribes of the Waikato. (Belich p.102.)

• This fact infuriated many British observers. It seemed bizarre that the war was almost a seasonal sport, and that the same warriors that were killing Imperial troops in Taranaki one day might be walking the streets of Auckland the next week.

• Aucklanders continued to rely on the produce that was supplied by the Waikato.

• Their trade with the Kingites allowed the continuation of the war effort. It also made it easier to obtain ammunition, despite Government restrictions. Wiremu Kingi

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Changing Leaders and tactics• After several setbacks and little to show for all his effort

Colonel Gold was replaced by General Pratt.• Settlers alarmed at the lack of success began to worry

about attacks on a besieged New Plymouth and even threats to Auckland.

• Many left for the safer South Island or even Australia.• Pratt tried to use Saps (trenches) to threaten the

numerous Pa which surrounded New Plymouth. It was a slow and easily evaded tactic which seemed to emphasise the British impotence in the face of an enemy that refused to fight in a conventional manner.

• The slow rate of advance was frustrating for the frightened settlers who expected the British Empire to be more robust against painted savages. They derided the General and his soldiers for their lack of success.

• After the intervention of Wiremu Tamehana a truce of sorts was established.

• Browne and his successor Grey both realised that the pre-requisite to establishing British sovereignty lay with the destruction of the Kingite power in the Waikato.


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New Plymouth Stockade & Pukerangiora Pa


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General Cameron• Cameron was keen 'to have a brush' with the

Maori, but ironically he arrived at the conclusion of the Taranaki war.

• However, Governor Thomas Gore Browne was planning an invasion of Waikato to crush the Maori King movement and, at a meeting of the New Zealand Executive Council, Cameron enthusiastically supported this course.

• 'I strongly recommended that they [the Kingites] should be called to account, without loss of time, for their participation in the [Taranaki] rebellion'.

• Then, in mid 1861, Browne was sacked and replaced by Governor George Grey, and, to Cameron's bitter disappointment, the invasion was called off.

General Cameron

Grey prepares the ground• Grey arrived back less amenable to negotiating

with the King.• He chose to postpone the attack on the Waikato.• Publicly he preached peace.• Privately he began to prepare for war.• Claiming danger to Auckland he requested more

troops.• Imperial regiments arrived from Australia and

India.• Grey recruited troops from Australia on the

promise of land.• He also began to build a military road from

Auckland southward.• By 1863 he had a total force in excess of 18,000

Imperial and local Militia.• Loans in London were secured on the basis of

future land confiscations.


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The Great South Road


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The Waikato War 1863• Cameron planned to advance steadily on the

Waikato heartland, using his great superiority in numbers and supplies, hoping to force the Maori into a decisive battle which would end the war quickly.

• The Maori, under Rewi Maniapoto and Tawhana Tikaokao, opposed him with a defensive line centred on Meremere.

• They also used the strategy of raids on the British lines of communication.

• The Maori raids prevented Cameron from concentrating enough troops to attack Meremere until 30 October.

• When he finally did attack, the Maori escaped without loss. Cameron was blamed for the wholly unexpected delay of three months before the advance on Meremere, and it is true that the Maori had won the first round.

Wiremu Tamehana Tarapipi Te Waharoa


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Gunboats vs Ships Cannon at Meremere


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Rangiriri Nov 1963• Nevertheless Cameron moved on up

the Waikato River. • The Maori army had had to disperse

for economic reasons.• Cameron advanced on the next line at

Rangiriri. Most of its defenders had already left.

• Cameron attacked the rump of it at Rangiriri on 20 November.

• Eight British assaults were repulsed, only one was partially successful capturing part of the rampart.

• Despite this after 130 casualties Cameron retired for the night.

• Cameron managed to take the pa the next morning, capturing 180 prisoners after misunderstanduing a flag of truce.

• Back row, from left: Rewi Maniapoto, Tawhana Tikaokao, Taonui Hikaka, Hone Wetere Te Rerenga. Front row, from left: Te Rangituataka, Te Naunau Hikaka.


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The Earthworks at Rangiriri


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Assault at Rangiriri


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Soldiers on the Rangiriri Ramparts


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Paterangi (von Tempsky)


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Paterangi

• Cameron continued his advance until confronted by the Paterangi line.

• It was the most formidable group of pa the Maori had ever built.

• It protected the Kingite’s richest agricultural area and garrisoned by their strongest army.


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Rangiaowhia• On 20--21 February1864, in easily his greatest military achievement, Cameron brilliantly

outflanked the Paterangi line and took it and the whole district at low cost, gravely and permanently weakening the King movement. Many Maori still believe that he managed this by breaking an agreement on the neutrality of the village of Rangiawhao, where Kingite non-combatants were assembled


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Orakau 1864• Maori who arrived late decided to challenge

the British by building a new Pa. Rewi was related to them and felt required to support them.

• The Pa was defended by about 300 Maori (as many as a third were women) who faced 1200 troops led by Brigadier General Carey.

• It had no water and was easily surrounded. . Maori help arrived too late and unable to get to the Pa sat instead "...on the hill and wept their farewell, for they thought that...none (would) escape..." (Belich p171)

• There were 5 Assaults and the offer of surrender before the Maori attempted to break out.

• Belich argues that while the Maori saw Orakau as a defeat it was "the cruellest disappointment of the entire war" for the British (p 175).

• The King Movement still existed, now behind the "aukati" (boundary) to the Ngati Maniapoto land


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Rewi Maniapoto at Orakau

'Ka whawhai tonu matou, Ake! Ake! Ake!'

(We will fight on for ever and ever).


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The King Retreats to his Rohe • With their forces almost surrounded the

Kingite army melted into the bush.

• Again Cameron was denied his decisive victory.

• With his lines of communication stretched and vulnerable he halted and consolidated his position.

• The King was now surrounded by his strongest supporters the Ngati Maniapoto.

• The Kingites began to dig more pa in preparation for more fighting.

• Cameron had received new of developments in Tauranga, another Kingite stronghold.

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Tukaroto Matutaera Potatau Te Wherowhero Tawhiao

The wars of the 1860s in Taranaki and Waikato and the government's subsequent confiscation of Maori land saw Tawhiao and his people rendered virtually landless and forced to retreat as wandering refugees into the heartland of Ngati Maniapoto, now known as the King Country. As a result of the invasion of Waikato by British forces in 1863 on the pretext that the Waikato tribes were preparing to attack Auckland, Tawhiao and his people lost over a million acres to the settler government and subsequently to the settlers themselves.


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The War in Tauranga• The war in the Waikato was at an end

but Cameron wanted a decisive victory. He also wanted to end the tacit support given to the Kingites by Maori from other regions.

• When an opportunity presented itself at Tauranga, Cameron halted operations in the Waikato basin and took his striking force east.

• The coastal location of the Maori position, the Gate Pa, enabled him to concentrate crack troops and a vast artillery train against it. His preparations for battle on 29 April were impeccable, but his assault force was routed.

• Despite his reputation for stoicism, 'the general dashed his field-glass on the ground, turned his back on the fugitives, and retired to his tent to conceal his emotion.'

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Welcome to my Parlour... Gate Pa• Gate Pa was an interesting version of the

modern Pa. It seems to have been deliberately built to withstand an assault by heavy weapons, and more to the point to allow an assault by troops.

• The siting of the flagpole to fool the artillery and the building of loopholes inside the bunkers to allow firing into the interior of the Pa, point to a clever and very deadly trap.

• However once again when it appeared to have served its purpose, it was abandoned.

• Settler and Military reaction to the defeat was extreme with many preferring to believe military incompetence or cowardice rather than Maori ingenuity was responsible for the rout.

• A victory at Te Ranga shortly afterwards helped mollify their disquiet.

An incident from the attack when water was given to a wounded Trooper.


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Gate Pa’s fortifications


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Gate Pa

Winners and Losers

• The Government/Settlers objectives :

• To finally defeat the Maori Kingitanga in battle.

• To prove the authority of the Crown and British Law.

• To free up the ‘wasteland’ and ensure its availability to the Settlers.

• To protect future settlements and pay back the loan.


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• Maori responses to the attacks:

• No decisive battles meant the Kingite army remained intact.

• The Maori King remained safe in his Rohe.

• Almost all of the land vacated by Maori was now confiscated.

• The ‘fencibles’ occupied the land and the surplus was sold to repay the war loan.


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Kupapa and Ranger• One of the most important of the military

units that the Imperial and Government had was the Queenite or Kupapa. These were Maori who fought with the Crown but often with their own agenda. While ostensibly led by Europeans they were answerable only to their own Rangatira.

• Often they were more interested in revenge for past slights and used the conflict as an excuse to attack old adversaries.

• These Maori were extremely effective in the fighting. Often defeats that were inflicted were as a direct result of their contribution.

• The Forest Rangers were local militia who often fought in conjunction with Kupapa using the same tactics and often wearing the similar uniform.

Hohepa Tamamutu dressed in Kupapa attire


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Gustavus Von Tempsky


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The Aftermath of the Wars

• Read Pages 71-84 C of C

• Read to Page 45 to 47 WON

Extension Reading

“War and Survivors” by Judith Binney (Extension)“The NZ Wars” by James Belich (Book or Precis in the Extension Reading)

“Mondays Warriors” Maurice Shadbolt (Novel)

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A New Religion: Pai Marire.• The wars spluttered to a halt and the Maori King

held fast behind the aukati. Having gained the best of the Waikato land the Government stood back.

• Elsewhere Maori defiance still simmered and resulted in conflicts in the South Taranaki and East Coast.

• Some of this conflict was centred around the new religions which often concentrated on the old testament Jehovah and traditional maori beliefs.

• In 1864 King Tawhiao converted to the Pai Marire religion of Te Ua.

• Based on a peaceful ideal it became a victim of misinterpreation by both its followers and by Pakeha.

• Many of its adherents bellieved they could become impervious to bullets when chanting Hau Hau….

• This became the european name of their movement.• This new warfare was to be more bloody with less

regard to traditional rules of war that Imperial troops and Maori had held to in the past.

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The Murder of Carl Volkner: 1865

• Pai Marire began to send their own missionaries around the country.

• The murder of the Missionary Carl Volkner in Opotiki horrified Europeans.

• He had been warned by visiting Hauhau led by Kereopa and when suspected of spying on their activities was hung from a tree.

• To the Settlers horror, reports that his eyes had been eaten revived vivid memories of Titokowaru and the cannibalism associated with his campaigns.

• A local chief was charged with this incident.• Later, as further punishment, a large section of

Whakatohea land was confiscated in punishment for this event.

• The arrival of Hau Hau Missionaries was also associated with outbreaks of the East Coast Wars between Ngapuhi Hapu.


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Volkners Murder Site


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South Taranaki

• In order to quell Maori restistance Cameron was ordered to march on the southern Taranaki, he refused and was replaced by General Chute.

• Chute employed scorched earth tactics to destroy and drive out Maori Tribes.

• His drive around Mount Taranaki from Whanganui to new Plymouth, left many tribes almost landless and starving.

• The loss of life and destruction of their lifestyle would lead to a change in the peaceful nature of the new religion.

• Te Whiti, Tohu and Titokowaru all initially established peaceful religions. But as their plight became worse as Pakeha confiscation of land continued to take their land,

• Titokowaru in particular saw resistance as necessary.

General Chute

Chutes march to the sea and Titokowaru’s

war.

Titokowaru’s War 1868

• Titokowaru had chosen to accept the new reality and preached peace.

• He travelled in his ‘Year of the Lamb’ calling for co-operation.

• As creeping confiscation increased pressure on his Iwi’s land, he lashed out.

• He attacked Turu turu Mokai (nr Hawera).

• Initially he had only 80 warriors but as success continued his support grew.

• He defeated several constabulary units who attacked his home at Te Ngutu O Te Manu.

• He drove the Europeans back towards Whanganui.

• At Tauranga-Ika his support suddenly disappeared.


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Titokowaru and Tauranga-ika


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Te Kooti’s War 1868-72

Extension ReadingMaori Prophet Leaders : Binney

“Season of the Jew” Maurice Shadbolt (Novel)

• Te Kooti is an interesting case. Initially he had fought as a Kupapa against Hauhau, but was arrested and sent to the Chathams where he had visions and created a new religion.

• Ringatu.• Escaping to the East Coast, he became

infamous for the massacre of both Pakeha and Maori.

• He would lead the Militia in a furious chase around the Ureweras with the aid of the Tuhoe.

• Eventually he was granted access to the Rohe Potae and eventually a pardon in 1883.

100 Top History Makers: Te Kooti


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The Native Land Court


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Confiscation and The Land Court

• Binney has described the establishment of the Maori Land Court as an Act of War.

• The Wars had left many of the most powerful Tribes without large areas of their most valuable agricultural land.

• Now the Colonial Government which could not defeat them on the battlefield turned to the Courtroom to win the lands they desired.

• Waikato lost most of their most fertile land.

• Kupapa and Neutral tribes also lost land

• Ngati Maniapoto lost almost none.

Extension Reading:“The Native Land Court and the Maori

Communities” Judith Binney (Extension)


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Battlefield to Courtroom• The Land Confiscations were bad enough but did not

satisfy the Settler demands, now the Government used the Law to acquire the ‘wastelands’ that Maori did not need or use.

• The Government left the King behind the Aukati within the Rohe Potae, where he could defy them but could achieve little.

• Peace returned to the Taranaki and eventually the Waikato and even the East Coast, and as Grey had predicted the Government began to dig around the King.

• Laws were passes transferring land in the Waikato to armed settlers and other legislation was used to whittle away at the land which was still owned by Maori.

• The Native Schools Act (1867) began the assimilation of the Maori, educating them in English. Some Maori saw this as a good thing, in much the same way that Nga Puhi in the north had seen education in the 1820’s as a way of improving themselves and acquiring the best things in European culture.

• The Maori Representation Act (1867) created the 4 Maori Seats, initially its representatives were from Kupapa tribes. Despite their best efforts the fact there were only 4 always limited their ability to truly represent Maori interests.

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The Native Land Court• The court was established to secure Maori claims to land.• It was supposed to identify and acknowledge ownership often confused by years

of warfare and migration.• With ownership established, parting Maori from their land became easier.• Anyone (Maori or Pakeha) could claim land regardless of whether it was

occupied.• Maori occupiers were asset rich but cash poor.• When a claim was made against a block of land Maori occupiers were forced to

have it surveyed, creating a debt which often went unpaid.• When a court was set up in a nearby town Maori were expected to wait there until

their case came before it. • Absence meant that their ownership became void.• While waiting they were forced to leave fields untended and to buy food and

stores from accommodating shopkeepers… on tick.• Often even if they won their case Maori were forced to sell land to repay their

debts.• In some places, (Hawkes Bay) claimants, surveyors and shopkeepers worked

together to acquire land from Maori.


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Maori Land Holdings 1860 -1910


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Maori Land 1860- 1890

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Maori Auxiliaries


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Major Ropata and Major Kemp - Kupapa Leaders

Te Rangihiwinui, Te Keepa Wahawaha, Rapata


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Peaceful Resistance & Maori Governments

• Kohimaramara 1860

• Repudiation 1871

• Parihaka 1882

• Kotahitanga 1892

• Kauhanganui 1894


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Kohimaramara 1860• In July 1860 Governor Gore Browne sought to

isolate the Kingitanga and its supporters when he invited about 200 chiefs to a conference at Kohimarama near Auckland.

• Those deemed to be rebellious, from areas such as Taranaki and Waikato, were not invited.

• The conference reaffirmed the Treaty of Waitangi and the sovereignty of Queen Victoria, but those present did not endorse the government's line in Taranaki.

• Nor did they condemn the Kingitanga. • Gore Browne was not pleased. Public opinion

was critical of his performance as governor and no significant progress had been made in Taranaki.

• A breakthrough came in March 1861 when Wiremu Tamihana visited Taranaki and arranged a truce.


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Kohimaramara 1860• An unexpected result was for some chiefs

to see this as being a chance to create a Maori Assembly.

• The chiefs wanted the conference to be a regular event, and New Zealand's Parliament voted the funds to stage another conference.

• George Grey, governor again from 1861, had other ideas.

• He cancelled the plans, partly because he did not think it wise 'to call a number of semi-barbarous Natives together to frame a Constitution for themselves'.

• He proposed, instead, that Maori districts be administered through runanga (tribal assemblies), supervised by the Crown.


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The 1871 Repudiation Movement

• Henare Matua had seen his people unjustly deprived of their land, for the Crown ignored the objections of those who did not wish to sell. Surveys had begun on the blocks acquired this way.

• Other blocks had been taken without consultation for railways, roads and telegraph lines.

• Matua regarded the Native Land Court as the instrument of the Crown and of private buyers; he demanded that control should be in the hands of the runanga.

• In this situation the Hawke's Bay Repudiation movement emerged. By 1871 Henare was co-operating fully with the brothers H. R. and T. P. Russell, seeking by legal action to upset previous land deals.


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Repudiation


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Parihaka

• Followers of the Pai Maririe leader Te Ua Te Whiti and Tohu built the settlement of Parihaka based on his teachings. It was centered in confiscated land which had been labelled as unwanted.

• Pakeha prejudice meant that no matter what was said by te Whiti it was often misinterpreted or misrepresented.

• The Government began to survey the land and Te Whiti sent out the Ploughmen to disrupt their progress. They were arrested and many were sent to the South Island.

• Eventually Te Whiti, Tohu and Titokowaru were arrested and put on trial, but the charges were thrown out. The Government changed the law.

• Eventually 1600 volunteers invaded Parihaka, expelling Maori from other districts and destroying the Settlement. Te Whiti and Tohu were sent to Otago.

100 Top History Makers: Te Whiti


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Te Ua, Te Whiti and Tohu and Parihaka

Te Ua Te Whiti


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Comet above Parihaka

1882


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Te Whiti’s House


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Parihaka


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The Trial of Te Whiti, Tohu and

Titokowaru

Extension Reading:Maori Prophet Leaders: Binney

“Ask That Mountain”: Dick Scott


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Trying to raise a flame

Mr Punch: “You’ll have that pot boil over directly, old lady if you are not careful”

Betsy Bryce: “W’ich it aint none o’ your business, as I am awares on”


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Armed Constabulary at Parihaka


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Camp Nelson at Parihaka


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Armed Constabulary await the order to march


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Return of the Ploughmen


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The Search for Maori Self Government

• As time passed there were several attempts at the creation of a Maori Government.

• It was hoped that this Government would operate together with the Pakeha Parliament and would control Maori areas. This was often based on the second article of the Treaty.

• While the Maori King had been tolerated after his withdrawal into the Ngati Maniapto territory, his authority had always been limited.

• Ngati Maniapoto had even been prepared to defy him in order to achieve some economic advantage.

• After his return to Ngaruawahia the in 1882 King attempted to extend his authority but was rebuffed by surrounding tribes.

• He then travelled to Britain in 1884 an effort to have the Treaty recognised.• He was sent back to the New Zealand Government.• In other parts of the country groups attempted to set up a Maori Parliament

with little success. • Maori tribalism in many ways one of its strengths was also one its major

weaknesses.

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Kotahitanga 1892

Ngapua Hone Heke

• This movement was based around establishing good relations between the Races. It was based in areas where Kupapa and Pakeha relations were strong. (mainly Ngapuhi/Tai Tokerau)

• It was constituted at Waitangi in 1892.• They did not view the Kingites as relevant.• They distrusted the policies which had alienated

Maori from their land, and sought an end to the Land Court, an end to Government land purchases and the establishment of Maori local Government.

• It was not taken seriously by the Crown which was aware that the Movement had only limited support amongst Maori.

• It was an example of the Tribal nature of Maori politics and the way that the Government could manipulate this division.

• The impact Hone Heke made with Te Kotahitanga led to his gaining an influential position In 1893, in his early 20s, he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he would be better able to promote the objectives of Te Kotahitanga.


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Kauhanganui 1894

• This was an attempt by the King and his Great Council to define their Rangatiratanga.

• It was based on the second article of the Treaty.

• Like earlier attempts the Government simply ignored the movement and it withered.

• Mahuta who succeeded his father appeared to accept this when he sponsored a candidate for Western Maori and later accepted a seat for himself on the Legislative Council.


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Dog Tax Rebellion 1898

End of Race Relations

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