Who signed the Treaty of Waitangi and who didn t?
By Emma Jordan
Who signed the Treaty of Waitangi and who didn t?
Tāraia Ngākuti, a chief of Ngāti Tamaterā in the Coromandel, was one of many notable chiefs who refused to sign Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Who signed the Treaty of Waitangi on behalf of the Crown?
Captain William Hobson
Captain William Hobson, R.N., signed the Treaty on behalf of the British Crown and later became the first Governor of New Zealand.
What were the problems with the Treaty of Waitangi?
The land was lost through a combination of private and Government purchases, outright confiscation, and Native Land Court practices that made it difficult for Māori to maintain their land under traditional ownership structures. There were some purchases of Māori land made before the Treaty was signed.
Who is kemara Kaiteke?
A famous tohunga (priest) from Te Tī, Waitangi, he was allied with Hongi Hika and involved in the intertribal Musket Wars of the early 1800s. He was apparently named Kaitīeke following an incident in Hicks Bay during one of Hongi’s war expeditions.
Who helped Henry Williams translate the Treaty into te reo?
On 4 February 1840, Williams and his son Edward were given one night to translate the technical language of Hobson and Busby’s draft Treaty of Waitangi into Māori.
Why did the Māori want a Treaty?
Reasons why chiefs signed the treaty included wanting controls on sales of Māori land to Europeans, and on European settlers. They also wanted to trade with Europeans, and believed the new relationship with Britain would stop fighting between tribes.
Who helped Henry Williams translate the treaty into te reo?
Why did the British Crown want the Treaty of Waitangi?
What did the Māori call James Busby?
Based at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands, Busby was given little material support with which to achieve these aims; he had no troops or police and no legal power to make arrests. Maori derided him as a ‘Man-o-War without guns’.
How much of New Zealand is owned by Māori?
Maori land has been estimated at about 5.6 per cent of New Zealand’s total land area of 26.9 million hectares (Table 1).
Why did Hone Heke want the treaty?
Self Determination. Heke spoke persuasively in favour of signing an agreement with the British. But he, along with many other Maori in the north, soon became disillusioned. He saw that government actions were undermining rangatiratanga (chiefly authority).
Why did William Hobson want a treaty?
The British government appointed William Hobson as consul to an independent New Zealand. It sent him here with one goal – to get Māori to sign over sovereignty of all or part of New Zealand to Britain. Hobson would then become lieutenant governor over those areas.
