A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
Inside the story of the Ngāti Whātua village, as told on Ahi Ka – (‘Fires Of Occupation’)
THE BACKGROUND
The Treaty of Waitangi was intended to prevent the sale of Māori land to colonial forces from European countries not associated with The Crown, but what it didn’t do was protect that land from the Crown itself. Within a century of the treaty’s signing, millions of acres of Māori land had been sold, occupied or confiscated.