SSR Selfie - Te Tiriti O Waitangi

I read a non-fiction book called Te Tiriti O Waitangi by Ross Calman, Mark Derby, and Toby Morris.

First, I read the first couple of pages about the arrival of Captain Cook and a huge problem between the British and the Maori.

• For five hundred years, Maori had Aotearoa to themselves. Then in 1760, Captain Cook arrived.

• In the 1790s, Pakeha came to hunt seals and whales, missionaries from England, and later France, followed to spread Christionity, and traders also arrived  to load their ships with timber and flax to sell overseas.

• By 1830, several hundred Pakeha, most of them British, were living in what they called New Zealand

I learnt a lot about this book because I learnt the reason the difficulties between the Brittish and the Maori.