1. New Zealand and the Treaty of Waitangi
... ensure sovereignty over Maori for the Crown was Lieutenant Governor William Hobson, who was assisted in composing the treaty, over only a matter of days, by James Busby, the British Resident of New Zealand, amidst others. Missionary Henry Williams and his son Edward then translated the treaty into Maori on the 4th of February 1840. There are a variety of different perspectives proclaimed by ... 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 e...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate