On 5 November 1881 around 1,500 government troops and volunteers invaded Parihaka pā in Taranaki, evicting over 1,000 people, destroying many whare and arresting leaders Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, who had been running a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience in response to land confiscation by the government.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Parihaka Album
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Photograph by W. A. Collis
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