Māori King movement
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m-ori-king-movement-205-4248349
title:
Māori King movement
text:
The Māori King movement, called the Kīngitanga in Māori, is a Māori movement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand in the central North Island in the 1850s, to establish a role similar in status to that of the monarch of the British colonists, as a way of halting the alienation of Māori land. The first Māori king, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, was crowned in 1858. The monarchy is non-hereditary in principle, although every monarch since Pōtatau Te Wherowhero has been a child of
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description:
Shared monarchy of numerous Māori iwi of New Zealand
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_King_movement
date created:
2005-01-12T09:04:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T07:00:08Z
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