New Zealand Wars, Land Wars, or Māori Wars — why does the name matter?
What should we call the series of conflicts that raged between the Crown and groups of Māori from 1845 to 1872?
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Author: Vincent O'Malley
What caused the New Zealand Wars?
“This was bigger than just land ownership. It went to the heart of how Māori and Pākehā would live together.”
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A dark tale of dispossession and greed
The New Zealand Settlements Act of 1863 “was part of a package of measures passed by the all-Pākehā parliament to crush Māori independence.”
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Without He Whakaputanga, there might have been no Treaty of Waitangi
He Whakaputanga — The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand, 1835 — has often been regarded...
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Vincent O’Malley: ‘Don’t mention the war’ became a kind of agreement
This is an edited extract from The Great War for New Zealand by Vincent O’Malley, published this...
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The Waikato War, not Gallipoli, was our defining conflict
This is an edited extract from The Great War for New Zealand by Vincent O’Malley, published this...
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