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...claims by Ngāti Awa
Some Ngāti Awa chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi at Pohaturoa, near Whakatane in June 1840. Prior to the 1860s, however, there were few European settlers within the Ngāti Awa rohe.
Fighting broke out between the Crown and Māori in the early 1860s in Taranaki and later Waikato. In 1864 some Ngāti Awa hapu joined a Te Tai Rawhiti force planning to go to Waikato to assist the tribes there. Most of the force was prevented from travelling through the Rotorua region b...
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...social, political and economic structures of Ngāti Tūwharetoa life. A number of Ngāti Tūwharetoa people lost their lives in these battles.
In the 1860s, the Crown introduced a series of native land laws which provided for the individualisation of Māori land holdings which had previously been held in tribal tenure. This induced profound change to systems of Māori customary land tenure, and contributed to the alienation of Ngāti Tūwharetoa whenua by undermining tribal control over their l...
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