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The United Tribes of New Zealand (Māori: Te W(h)akaminenga o Nga Rangatiratanga o Nga Hapu o Nu Tireni), a confederation of Māori tribes based in the north of the North Island, had been convened in 1834 by British Resident James Busby.
Busby had been sent to New Zealand in 1833 by the Colonial Office to serve as the official British Resident, and was anxious to set up a framework for trade between Māori and Europeans.
The Māori chiefs of the northern part of the North Island agreed to meet with him in March 1834.
Rumors began spreading that the Frenchman Baron Charles de Thierry planned to set up an independent state at Hokianga.
The United Tribes declare their independence on October 28, 1835, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Busby had been sent to New Zealand in 1833 by the Colonial Office to serve as the official British Resident, and was anxious to set up a framework for trade between Māori and Europeans.
The Māori chiefs of the northern part of the North Island agreed to meet with him in March 1834.
Rumors began spreading that the Frenchman Baron Charles de Thierry planned to set up an independent state at Hokianga.
The United Tribes declare their independence on October 28, 1835, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The two thousand British immigrants to New Zealand (called Pakeha by the Maori) have planted themselves among a Maori population of one hundred thousand.
The Treaty of Waitangi, prepared hastily and without legal assistance, and concluded by Captain William Hobson and about fifty chiefs of the North Island’s Maori iwi (tribes) on February 6, 1840, cedes sovereignty of New Zealand to the British Crown while granting the Maoris the rights and privileges of British citizenship and their continued possession of tribal lands and natural resources.
By this time, the Maori have killed, largely at whim, most of the Moriori they had enslaved four years earlier.