The great calamity that befell the Waikato people in the 19th century was the confiscation of millions of acres of tribal territory after the Waikato war of the 1860s. The government wanted to obtain...
The Waikato war was a move intended to defeat the Maoris by the British government. There had been incipient warfare and guerrilla fighting since the mid-1850s, which came to a head in 1863. In the...