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Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
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Māori people
Indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Whanganui campaign
1847 conflict between colonial settlers and the native Māori people in New Zealand
The Whanganui campaign was a brief round of hostilities in the North Island of New Zealand as indigenous Māori fought British settlers and military forces in 1847. The campaign, which included a siege of the fledgling Whanganui settlement, was among the earliest of the 19th…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
New Zealand Wars
1845–1872 armed conflicts in New Zealand
The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. Though the wars were initially localised conflicts triggered by tensions over disputed land purchases,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)