... the Treaty of Waitangi was first signed it has been a continuously significant document that has fused a debate about the misunderstandings over the translation of the Treaty, did the Maori people even understand what they were signing? Despite the evolution of our society from 1840 and today ... the treaty was deliberately mistranslated to secure a more welcoming response, Henry Williams himself (Henry Williams 1874) states that "In this translation it was necessary to avoid all expressions of the English for which there was no similar term in the Maori language, preserving the entire ...

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... would initiate a new relationship, with Maori and Pakeha sharing authority, however in the English version, the Queen was guaranteed full sovereignty over New Zealand. This along with the differences in translation over Maori land ownership, in article two, deeply angered Rua. Like many Maori, Rua was also upset by the way in which the British ignored the treaty, seeing it as ... ...

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