Rather, he is Māori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand, or as Māori call it Aotearoa. While the Māori population was declining significantly due to numerous incoming settlers, land wars, sickness and foreign diseases, Parihaka became one of the largest Māori settlements in the country. Instead, it authorized the forced removal of thousands of Parihaka Māori and confiscated their lands. Allan K. Davidson, Christianity in Aotearoa: A History of Church and Society in New Zealand, 3rd ed. Keith Newman, Bible & Treaty: Missionaries Among the Māori: A New Perspective (North Shore, N.Z: Penguin Books, 2010), 228; Davidson, Christianity in Aotearoa, 47.

Source: Stuff October 10, 2022 17:32 UTC