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Also when the Europeans armed the Maori with muskets and gunpowder they proceeded to genocide other tribes and built a Maori slave trade. New Zealanders are still saddled with wrongfully placed guilt when the Maori were genocidal cannibal slavers.

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Hori too.

But it's not that our ancestors armed maori. We just treated them as equals. They were free to work and trade that work for muskets.

But fun fact. The potato killed more maori.

Higher calories. Women could plant. Easily stored

Meant more maori men free to go on the brutal raids

They slaughtered each other