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New Zealand will this week mark its national day, commemorating the 181st anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Dominic O Sullivan from Charles Sturt University says the document explains why contemporary relationships between Indigenous peoples and the state look very different in New Zealand and Australia.
On the 6th of February, 1840, representatives of the British crown and 540 Māori rangatira signed the treaty, in a bid to align the Māori people and the new British colonists.
The agreement is seen by many as New Zealand s founding document.
The Treaty of Waitangi, or Tiriti o Waitangi, was signed in 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and Maori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand.