New Zealand Wars Taranaki Prophets:4 1998

The New Zealand Wars were a series of armed conflicts that took place in New Zealand from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand government and indigenous Māori. Up until the 1960s Europeans referred to them as the Māori wars, and historian James Belich was one of the first to refer to them as the “New Zealand wars” in his 1987 book The New Zealand wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict.

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