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  2. Treaty of Waitangi - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Waitangi ... Hōne Heke was the first of the Māori chiefs who signed that day. ... it was not until 1974 that the date was made a public holiday.

  3. Waitangi Day - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements - Wikipedia

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    The Waitangi Sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi was first signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand, with a further 500 signatures added later that year, including some from the South Island. It is one of the founding documents of New Zealand.

  5. Why New Zealand’s Maori are fighting to save an 1840 treaty ...

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    Maori tribes call on King Charles to ensure the New Zealand government honours its Treaty of Waitangi obligations ... of the treaty. The treaty, signed in 1840 by over 500 Maori chiefs and the ...

  6. Māori tribes appeal to King Charles to intervene in New ...

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    Earlier last month, around 10,000 people took to the street, marching towards Wellington to oppose the bill that seeks to redefine the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. First signed in 1840 ...

  7. Littlewood Treaty Document - Wikipedia

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    The document ends with, "Done at Waitangi on the 4th Feb 1840". [4] The text is virtually identical to the English text of the Treaty that James Reddy Clendon, the United States Consul to New Zealand, dispatched to the United States on 20 February 1840, except for the date at the end, which Clendon's copy had as 6 February instead of 4 February ...

  8. File:Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi ...

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    At 9.30 am on 6 February 1840, missionaries set out from Paihia to Waitangi. There they found some 300 to 400 Māori “scattered in small parties according to their tribes” – a smaller gathering than the day before, but still a fair number. However there was no sign of William Hobson.

  9. Marupō - Wikipedia

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    At the first signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840, Marupō gave a concerted physical display and vocal attack against the treaty. He signed the Treaty of Waitangi later that day, and signed it for a second time on 12 February 1840 in his local area of Māngungu, Hokianga. [1]