Kūpapa : the bitter legacy of Māori alliances with the Crown / Ron Crosby.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Early Support: Allegiance to Treaty or the Crown? : -- 1. Early hopes in Treaty dashed -- 2. The beginnings of Māori alignment with the Crown -- 3. The end of the beginning -- 4. Conflict in the Heretaunga Valley and Horowhenua -- 5. Whanganui, 1847 -- Part 2. Difficult Choices: Land Sales and Kīngitanga : -- 6. Purposeful Crown inaction and the rise of Kīngitanga, 1847-1860 -- 7. Attack at Waitara, the Kohimarama Conference and the invasion of the Waikato -- 8. Decline of the Kīngitanga threat, effects of confiscation and the rise of Paimārire -- Part 3. Reaction to the Perceived Threat from Paimārire : -- 9. Confiscations and the wildfire of Paimārire -- 10. Initial Māori and Crown offences to Paimārire -- 11. Māori and Crown offences to crush Paimārire -- Part 4. Rejection of the Charismatic: Titokowaru and Te Kooti : -- 12. Government defeats: inevitable consequences of aggressive policies -- 13. Forces gather for Government offensives on both coasts -- 14. Te Kooti's resurgence and major conventional force tactics -- 15. McLean's decision to use only Māori forces -- 16. The final allied Māori campaigns.

"The Treaty of Waitangi struck a bargain between two parties: the Crown and Māori. Its promises of security, however, were followed from 1845 to 1872 by a series of volatile and bloody conflicts commonly known as the New Zealand Wars. Many people today believe that these wars were fought solely between the Crown and Māori, when the reality is that Māori aligned with both sides - resulting in three participants with differing viewpoints ... Kūpapa addresses those realities, the complex Treaty-related reasons for them, and the cynical use of Māori by the Crown for its own purposes."--Publisher information.