OPINION If history teaches us anything, it’s that there’s no single “true” account of the past. What people believe happened is usually at odds with another.
From the 1840s onward, Frederick Maning would become an increasingly bitter and angry man who demonised Māori who opposed colonisation. So what explains this radical transition from a romantic early Pākehā settler? RNZ's Black Sheep podcast investigates.
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In 1841 just a few tiny islands of Pākehā settlement existed in an ocean of Māori land. Today, that picture has reversed and Māori control a fraction of Aotearoa. A big part of the reason? The Native Land Court.