Quote Originally Posted by mistaTea View Post
And my understanding is that this is what led to the NZ Wars. Some tribes had a very different understanding to what the 3 key articles meant.
The NZ Wars were land wars - Pakeha wanted more than the Maori were willing to give so Pakeha trumped up an excuse to fight and then, after they won, they confiscated even more land.
The NZ Company had a lot of input into this.
A sad period in NZ history.