TREATY OF WAITANGI BY SHANTELLE AND JESSICA

The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Tiriti o Waitangi) is a treaty first signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and various Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand. It resulted in the declaration of British sovereignty over New Zealand by Lieutenant Governor William Hobson in May 1840

What is the Treaty of Waitangi about?-The Treaty of Waitangi is the founding document of New Zealand. It is an agreement entered into by representatives of the Crown and of Māori iwi (tribes) and hapū (subtribes). It is named after the place in the Bay of Islands where the Treaty Was first signed, on 6 February 1840.

What are the principles of the treaty?-The treaty set up a partnership, and the partners have a duty to act reasonably and in good faith.

• The Crown has freedom to govern.
• The Crown has a duty to actively protect Māori interests.
• The Crown has a duty to remedy past breaches Signed in 1840, the

• Treaty of Waitangi is an agreement between the British Crown and Maori. Around this time, there were 125,000 Māori and about 2000 settlers in New zealand . Pakha stopped by Alexandra hotel / they stop and catch up food drinks they would trailed their was heaps of hotels. Alexandra redoubt maked a look out you could see the river  there is not allowed dogs or cars.There is a sign on what it first looked like then then what looked second then what looked liked now.That the Queen (or king) of Great Britain has the right to rule over New Zealand;

that Māori chiefs would keep their land and their chieftainships, and would agree to sell their land only to the British monarch; and

that all Māori would have the same rights as British subjects.

Māori people’s sense injustice. From 1980 annual protests Waitangi Day impelled successive governments make changes legislation affecting ... non-Māori, European law changed reflect Māori practice. Treaty settlements The Waitangi Tribunal formed 1975 investigate