MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 17
th, 2024 at 7:56am:
In places where the British did negotiate with local Indigenous peoples over land acquisition, what they did not mention was the sheer number of immigrants who would settle in their former lands.
That massive tracts of land would be needed, over and above that required to house them.
The issue of land needs for farming was one of the primary causes of NZ's land wars of the 1860s...
With its major city, Auckland, growing exponentially from what it was a mere 20 years before, the need for farmland became urgent. With Maori landowners refusing to just hand over their land - respect for tribal ownership of which had been assured by the Treaty of Waitangi - confrontation was inevitable.
Over 100 years later it was the cause of one of the rarest monarchical acts of the British Empire/Commonwealth where the sovereign is head of state - A formal apology from the sovereign, herself, for the Crown's treatment of the Tainui tribe - for waging war on the Crown's own subjects for the purpose of confiscating land.
Even India, which the British looted with impunity, cannot secure a royal apology.