Quote Originally Posted by dobby41 View Post
When Te Tiriti was signed there were 80000 Maori and less than 2000 Pakeha.
I do find that to be useful context. I was under the impression it was more like 100K Maori to 2K European/Pakeha at the time of the signing.

Let's shift this to the other forum?

It does bring into question the notion that all 530 odd tribes would have signed the contract if it was made clear that The Queen would be taking full chieftainship/ tino rangatiratanga of their lands.

Maori made up ~98% of the population back then. Yet we believe that virtually all of the tribes handed over all of their power so readily? I don't know the answer, but want to learn more about it that is for sure.

It is a different perspective that starts to make me question just how much I really do know on the topic. Very little, in fact.