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...technologies, access to the European world, and the benefits these might bring. Numerous land agreements with settlers occurred throughout the 1830s, covering much of the NgāiTakoto rohe. While some of the deeds provided for ongoing use of land by local Māori, they were signed by rangatira from other iwi, and NgāiTakoto had limited involvement in the transactions. NgāiTakoto signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi in Kaitaia on 28 April 1840. After the signing of...
...Tamaoho rangatira also sold land in Remuera directly to Pākehā after the Crown temporarily waived pre-emption in 1844. Despite Crown assurances that one tenth of pre-emption waiver sales lands would be retained for public purposes and the benefit of Māori, the Crown failed to reserve most of the tenths. The benefits that the Crown led Ngāti Tamaoho to expect from selling land were not always realised. Crown purchasing activities also contributed to tension, and ultimately armed conflict, be...