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The Northern War, fought in the Bay of Islands in 1845-46, was the first serious challenge to the Crown in the years after the Treaty of Waitangi. Its opening shots marked the beginning of the wider North Island conflicts often referred to as the New Zealand Wars.

Governor-General Lord Bledisloe gifted the Treaty House and grounds at Waitangi to the nation in 1932. Two years later there were celebrations at Waitangi to mark the date of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Between 1818 and the early 1830s an estimated 20,000 Maori were killed in what have been described as the Musket Wars. Thousands more were enslaved or became refugees.

In 1805 the Nga Puhi chief Ruatara left New Zealand on the whaling ship Argo with the intention of meeting King George III.

The start of the musket wars is attributed to the Ngapuhi chief Hongi Hika.

Charlotte lived with a Nga Puhi chief and refused to be 'rescued' on at least two occasions, before disappearing from the record.

On 7 March 1842 Maketu Wharetotara, the 17-year-old son of the Nga Puhi chief Ruhe of Waimate, became the first official execution in New Zealand.

Hirini Rawiri Taiwhanga circa 1887. Taken by an unidentified photographer.

Portrait photograph of Hone Heke Ngapua, circa 1904.

James Clendon Henare, photographed circa 1945, by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew.

The headstone for Tamati Waka Nene at Christ's Church, Russell,

This map shows the major iwi movements of the 1820s caused by the inter-tribal conflicts known as the Musket Wars.

A Nga Puhi leader, Moka Te Kainga-mataa was an original signatory of the 1835 Declaration of Independence. Moka's name – but not his signature – also appears on the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

James Henare was Nga Puhi leader, soldier, farmer, and community leader. After the Second World War he helped set up the kohanga reo programme and fought for recognition of Maori rights under the Treaty of Waitangi

Nga Puhi chief who was the first influential Maori leader to have significant contact with British colonial officers

Founding member of the Kotahitanga movement, and signatory of the Treaty of Waitangi

Son of Rawiri Taiwhanga, Hirini Taiwhanga petitioned Queen Victoria to change the laws that breached the Treaty of Waitangi

Biography of Pomare II, a prominent Nga Puhi chief who signed the Treaty of Waitangi

Portrait of Nga Puhi Chief Tamati Waka Nene

Image of Ngapuhi warrior and chief Te Ruki Kawiti, first Maori signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi

Biography of this prominent Nga Puhi leader and Maori MP.

Biography of this leading Nga Puhi chief

Biography of this 19th-century Nga Puhi warrior and chief

Bay of Islands Nga Puhi chief Hone Heke was an influential Maori voice in favour of the Treaty of Waitangi. However he later became a leading opponent of British rule in New Zealand.

Head and shoulders profile portrait of Nga Puhi chief Hone Heke

The Rev. Thomas Kendall and the Maori chiefs Hongi Hika and Waikato, 1820.

Map showing main battles of musket wars

A Ngapuhi war expedition sets out in the 1820s.

The Nga Puhi waka taua (war canoe) Ngatokimatawhaorua, built for the 1940 centenary of the Treaty signing, was the largest of five waka in the Bay of Islands waters for Waitangi Day 2002.