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 | | Under pressure from settlers the Colonial Government gradually ignored the provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi and permitted settlers to settle in areas that had uncertain ownership. |
 | | The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840, stated that the individual MÄori tribes should have undisturbed possession of their lands, forests, fisheries and other taonga (treasures). |
 | | A group or category that is seldom mentioned or considered in the histories is the half-castes, the people of mixed MÄori and Pakeha descent, of which there would have been several thousand in New Zealand at the time of the Wars. |
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