Pre-Treaty business in

Aotearoa

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Dr Martin Fisher
Joseph Banks Captain James Cook
Tupaia
Tupaia’s drawing of Banks exchanging cloth for a crayfish with a Maori man, 1769
Maori traders bargaining with European trader Joel Polack

John Williams, 1845 or 1846

 EARLY MĀORI AND EUROPEAN
INDUSTRIES

• Fisheries
• Pounamu (Greenstone)
• Sealing
• Whaling
• Timber
• Flax
• Trading for muskets
Burning of the Boyd in Whangaroa Harbour, Walter Wright,
1809. Auckland City Art Gallery.
Captain John Stewart of The Elizabeth, 1829-
1830

Te Rauparaha Te Maiharanui
(Ngati Toa) (Ngai Tahu)
John Tuhawaiki
“Bloody Jack”
 Background to the Treaty
• Context of the 1830s: the anti-slavery movement in the
British government (1833) and the 1837 Report of the
Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes
(British Settlements)
• Appoint of James Busby as “British Resident” in 1833
• He Whakaputanga/Declaration of Independence: 1835-
1837
• Normanby’s 1839
Instructions to William
Hobson quickly clashed
with the reality of the
British imperial project
 Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of
Waitangi
• Signings around the country
• English and Māori versions: Does rangatiratanga and
kāwanatanga = sovereignty and governance?