A series of wars fought in the nineteenth century between Maoris and the colonial government of New Zealand over the enforced sale of Maori lands to Europeans.
he was stationed in Tauranga during the land wars
Also called New Zealand Wars
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The Holocaust is bluntly compared with colonisation and the land wars.
Note also the fact that the land wars happened so long ago they didn't even have stars on the flags, because they hadn't been invented yet.
The Land Wars are over, and this is a testing and challenging time.
At the outbreak of the Land Wars in 1860, he found himself a soldier, eventually rising to the rank of major.
At the time the land wars were still very much a subject that was spoken about quietly.
Set during the Land Wars, the performance has a musical score that has been specially commissioned.
The idea was shelved until after the Land Wars.
First up: the big white memorial to the soldiers who died in the land wars.
Farmers were only just returning to their desolated properties after the land wars.
A railway was suggested as early as 1864, but the land wars put everything on hold for several years.