New Zealand Background

Pākehā Settlement

• The private NZ Company settlement in 1841 of New Plymouth, Taranaki.
    
• Resistance from local Māori, the British Crown and English settlers (land hadn’t been surveyed – problems?)
    
• Treaty of Waitangi, 1840
• Ideas of partnerships, sovereignty and rangatiratanga.

Conflict

• Musket Wars – marauding tribes from Ngati Maniapoto (Waikato) forced Taranaki from their land.
    
• Led to (and fuelled by) a musket “arms” race.
    
• Taranaki Wars in the early 1860s fought over land and control (mana).
• First war – 3,500 Brits Vs 1000 Māori. Stalemate.
• Second war – Seen as a defensive war for Māori

  FURTHER READING: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/taranaki-wars