Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Hello bloggers today I will be talking about how and why the British wanted new Zealand. There a lot of things but I want to share the ones that I know.

Did you know that their used to be 100 thousand Maori people in New Zealand 

but by 1830 there was only 70-80 thousand Maori people. The main town was named Russell which sounds like a boy's name. The Missionnaries 

were really mad knowing that people started creating bars and getting drunk, fighting and more. Did you know the Maori signed a treaty and it has suffered from water damage, fire damage and rat bites but it still lives.

There are also tribes now which all have different meaning.

France for some reason were trying to steal New Zealand.

Their was also a company who also tried to scam every one by buying

land for cheap and selling it for more, the mans name was Edward Wakefield.

The British lied to the Maori with a new treaty in different languages

saying they will be protected but in the English one it said they will take

all the land they own. Their were only 40 out of 50 who signed at the meeting area but in total with all chiefs around the country were 500. The treaty said that all chiefs will have all "authority". There was also a sovereignty which in better words is a person who owns land their also was the governorship. The Maori still thought when they signed the new treaty they would still own their land. The Maori declared war on the British by distracting them with burning houses as one guy chopped the flags down 3 times. The Maori did not have as much men as the British and the Maori used a tactic called trench warfare where they will camp in an area and hide under ground and when the British got near they would mow them down. Hope you enjoy all these facts about the Maori and the British bye!