Anti white historians. Colonizers bought large tracts of land from maori for small amounts worth of axes. Muskets and fire starters. -it's all they had to trade. But where it got interesting is that through these trades ordinary maori started getting ahead only their elders believed that only they owned maori land. Ordinary maori owned nothing. So the tribal elders rose up in armed revolt breaching the treaty with the crown. Ordinary maori fought for both sides.