Following the New Zealand Wars, the British government __________.

The British government established four Māori seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives through the Māori Representation Act of 1867. This gave Māori a formal way to elect representatives to Parliament. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, before the New Zealand Wars, and the government did not hand the colony over to Māori control.

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