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Wellington: Tross Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2014). First Edition. Softcover. 1872970370 . 221, [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 209 x 146mm. "The Maori Intertribal Wars 1801-1840 were New Zealand's biggest tragedy of the 19th century. An estimated 43,600 natives were killed or wounded by enemy tribes. However, this cataclysmic near extinction of our early settlers is tossed aside as irrelevant when something like the special rights of a mountain are abused [. . .] Setting up the race-based Waitangi Tribunal may well have been the worst thing to happen to New Zealand in the 20th century. This failed experiment in biculturalism has, by its very existence, nearly halted the cultural development of 14% of New Zealanders and is increasingly trying the patience of the other 86%. [. . .] This book asks why we believe things that we know could not possibly be true, and why does our society seem to be operating with rules that don't offer solutions to our modern…
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Cannons Creek to Waitangi : Te Pakeha's Treaty Claim For Equality
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