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Table of contents: How we know about the past -- Land of birds -- Arrival of the Maori -- Maori settlement -- European explorers -- Sealing, whaling, timber and trade -- Missionaries and musket wars -- Treaty of Waitangi -- Pioneer settlers -- Gold -- Conflict between the races -- Political changes -- Changing ways of earning a living -- Fighting outside New Zealand -- Bad times and the role of the government -- Disasters -- Changes in our lives -- Changes in Maori lives -- Some of our heroes and heroines -- How has human occupation affected New Zealand