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Currently held at National Library of New Zealand, Wellington. The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Te Tiriti o Waitangi), sometimes referred to as Te Tiriti, is a document of central importance to the history of New Zealand, its constitution, and its national mythos.
It is one of the founding documents of New Zealand. [1] [2] It was preceded by the Declaration of Independence or He Whakaputanga signed in 1835, where some North Island Māori proclaimed the country of New Zealand to an international audience as an independent state with full sovereign power and authority held with Māori chiefs (rangatira).
Labour remained in power after the Second World War and in 1945, Labour Prime Minister Peter Fraser played an important role in the establishment of the United Nations, of which New Zealand was a founding member. [156] However, domestically Labour had lost the reforming zeal of the 1930s and its electoral support ebbed after the war.
New Zealand said on Wednesday it will draft a bill aimed at reinterpreting country's founding agreement, even as two of three governing parties say they will not support the bill becoming law. The ...
Waitangi Day (Māori: Te Rā o Waitangi), the national day of New Zealand, marks the anniversary of the initial signing—on 6 February 1840—of the Treaty of Waitangi.The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement towards British sovereignty by representatives of the Crown and indigenous Māori chiefs, and so is regarded by many as the founding document of the nation.
New Zealand Birth Certificates - 50 of New Zealand's Founding Documents. AUT Media. ISBN 9780958299718. Hamer, David Allen, ed. (1990). The Making of Wellington, 1800-1914. Victoria University of Wellington Press. ISBN 9780864732002. Palmer, Matthew (2008). The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution.
Proclaimed the sovereign independence of New Zealand. The Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand (Māori: He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni), a document signed by a number of Māori chiefs in 1835, proclaimed the sovereign independence of New Zealand prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
Evan Paul Moon. (1968-10-18) 18 October 1968 (age 56) Auckland, New Zealand. Occupation (s) Historian, author. Evan Paul Moon ONZM (born 18 October 1968) is a New Zealand historian and a professor at the Auckland University of Technology. He is a writer of New Zealand history and biography, specialising in Māori history, the Treaty of Waitangi ...