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Kōrero: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation

Te Mākarini me te hoko whenua

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Donald McLean buying land

Ko Te Mākarini tērā e noho ana i te taha o te rākau i te pito mauī, e whiriwhiri ana me Ngāti Kahungunu ki te hoko whenua i Te Wairoa i te tau 1865. Ko Te Mākarini te tumuaki o te Tari Hokohoko Whenua Māori, ā, nō te tau 1869 ka eke a ia hei minita mō ngā take Māori. Ka whakakīkī a Te Mākarini i ngā rangatira kia hokona ō rātou whenua, kia whiwhi ai rātou ki ngā painga o te ōhanga me te ao hou.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Rhodes Album

Reference: PA1-q-193-053

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Richard Boast, Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation – Crown pre-emption, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19519/te-makarini-me-te-hoko-whenua (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Richard Boast, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.