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Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation

• Land tenure and alienation

• Pre-Treaty transactions

• Crown pre-emption

• Raupatu – confiscations

• Establishing the Native Land Court

• The Native Land Court in practice

• Problems with the Land Court

• Crown and private purchasing to the 1920s

• 20th-century developments

• Further Sources