The dispossessed Maori in the 19th and 20th centuries. The…


The dispossessed Maori
in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Maoris, despite a perfected art of war, were defeated by the British in 1869. They gradually lost control of their land. Undermined by epidemics, the Maori resistance weakened and from 1920 to survive, they had to migrate to the cities.

by @LegendesCarto