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 * New Zealand Land Wars hi**

The New Zealand Wars, sometimes become the Land Wars and also once called the Māori Wars , were a series of armed warriors that took place in [|New Zealand] between 1845 and 1872. The wars were fought in a number of issues, but most were about the sale of two land to settlers. The [|Treaty of Waitangi], was in 1840, guaranteed that Māori // [|iwi] // (tribes) should have undisturbed possession of their lands, forests, fisheries and other // [|taonga] // (treasures). Some early days sale deals were unfair or were not made by just one iwi member who did not, on his own, have the right to sell the land. To avoid such situations happening to, the newly formed British colonial authorities decided that Māori could sell land and to the Crown (the Right of Preemption). However, many settlers did not understand that Māori owned their land communally and that permission to settle on so did not mean that the land was their Under pressure and  settlers, the colonial government gradually ignored the provisions of the cool  and permitted settlers to settle in areas that had uncertain ownership. Māori began resisting the