Musket Wars
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The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertrib
Maori Wardance Kahuroa
Heke Kawiti 1846
Hong hika war canoe
Moriori people
Moriori genocide
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The Moriori genocide was the mass murder, enslavement, and cannibalisation of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands, by members of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama, two Mā
Musket Wars
…Country and remote bays and valleys of Fiordland in the South Island. In 1835, the fighting went offshore as members of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama invaded and murdered the Moriori of Rēkohu in a genocide. With as many as 40,000 killed over a 40-year period, the death toll of the Musket Wars was unprecedented. Historian…
Port Hutt, where the invaders landed in late 1835