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The New Zealand land confiscations took place during the 1860s to punish the Kīngitanga movement for attempting to set up an alternative Māori form of government that forbade the selling of land to European settlers. The confiscation law targeted Kīngitanga Māori against whom the government had waged war to restore the rule of British law.
The effect was a creeping confiscation of almost a million acres (4,000 km 2) of land, with little distinction between the land of loyal or rebel Māori owners. [ 3 ] The Government's war policy was opposed by the British commander, General Duncan Cameron , who clashed with Governor Sir George Grey and offered his resignation in February 1865.
The Māori King movement, called the Kīngitanga [a] in Māori, is a Māori movement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand in the central North Island in the 1850s, to establish a role similar in status to that of the monarchy of the United Kingdom as a way of halting the alienation of Māori land. [3]
Governor Thomas Gore Browne.. The catalyst for the war was the disputed sale of 600 acres (2.4 km 2) of land known as the Pekapeka block, or Teira's block, at Waitara.The block's location perfectly suited European settlers' wish for a township and port to serve the north of the Taranaki district and its sale was viewed as a likely precedent for other sales that would open up for settlement all ...
Ngāi Tahu's claims covered a large proportion of the South Island of New Zealand, and related to the Crown's failure to meet its end of the bargain in land sales that took place from the 1840s. [28] Chris Finlayson was one of the lawyers working for Ngāi Tahu during the mid 1990s as the negotiations were taking place, he states a litigious ...
New Zealand Wars Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa; Memorial in the Auckland War Memorial Museum for all who died in the New Zealand Wars. "Kia mate toa" translates as "fight unto death" or "be strong in death", and is the motto of the Otago and Southland Regiment of the New Zealand Army.
Following the overthrow of the Kingdom, the Missionary Party established a transitional government known as the Provisional Government of Hawaii between the end of the monarchy and the annexation of Hawaii. Leper War on Kauaʻi (1893) Leprosy colony on Kauaʻi rebels against forced relocation to Kalaupapa peninsula. Black Week (1893–1894)
Piʻilani and his successors were known for the peace and prosperity that followed. They constructed a highway that circled the island along its coast; remnants of which still exist. They also built the island's and Hawaii's largest temple enclosure. Today it is called Piʻilanihale, built on an older temple site from about 1294. It is about 40 ...