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Story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
Contents
Story summary
Land tenure and alienation
Pre-Treaty transactions
Crown pre-emption
Raupatu – confiscations
Establishing the Native Land Court
The Native Land Court in practice
Problems with the Land Court
Crown and private purchasing to the 1920s
20th-century developments
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