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Read the page by yourself
Discuss with the group any words, concepts or phrases you don’t understand and record the meanings in your own words

New words:
English word
Meaning
Maori word
Meaning
Pakeha
Warily
Intently
contingent
Colonial
confiscation
Europeans
Un trustworthy
Interested

A group of people sharing values/actions
 Something related to a colony
To take something away

Pakeha
Whare
Whaea
Tipuna
Iwi
Korowai
Europeans
House
Respected adult female
Ancestor
Tribe
Cloak made of bird feathers

Comprehension.

What is meant by “a native contingent”
A group of Moari people

How are the two boys feeling about signing up to fight? Provide direct quotes as evidence.
Tipu - confident
Rongo - Unsure

Explain in your own words - “Tipu listens as she reminds Rongo of the land confiscation in the Waikato during the 1860s, of the lives lost trying to defend that land in the colonial wars.
There was a war about who gets the land. The Maori people were fighting to protect their land and pakeha.
Railey - There was a war about who gets the land  or not . and it was between maori and british.
Eh Htoo - There was a land war about who got the land Maori tried to defend their land for pakeha then they had a war.
There was war for the Maori peoples land.
There was a big war between Maroi and the British it was called the land wars it started when the British tried to get land off the Maroi