Originally Posted by
davflaws
Again, I'm sure you don't really want to know - but between about 1860 and the late 1880s, Maori were swamped by the tide of settlers arriving in huge numbers. Maori suffered massive loss of land, economic resources, and political power. They were eventually provoked to resist breaches of the TOW, and after they were defeated militarily, vast amounts of land were confiscated - much of it from iwi who had taken no part in "rebellion".
The Treaty settlements over the past 40 years have compensated Iwi (at thee or four cents in the dollar), but the legacy of colonisation in terms of loss of land, economic and political power and culture has resulted in significant ongoing disadvantage. In that respect NZ is not unique. The story is the same for indigenous people suffering colonisation all over the world.