Who said what to whom when the Treaty was negotiated - and what lay behind subsequent misunderstandings about its wording?
In this extract from her bestselling book The Treaty of Waitangi, Claudia Orange reports in detail on the dramatic events that led to the signing of the Treaty on 6 February 1840.
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