Maori

Parihaka    is a community in the Taranaki region of New Zealand. In the 1870's and 1880’s the settlement that lead to the largest Village in New Zealand.  became the center of campaign of non violence, to the resistance to the Europeans occupation land in area. Armed soldiers were sent in and arrested, and the peaceful resistance leaders and many or the Maori, residents often holding them in jail for months without trails. The village was found by it Maori chiefs. Te Whiti O Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi on land seized by the government during the post New Zealand's wars land confiscations of the 1860s. The population of the village grew to more than 2,000, attracting Maori. who had been dispossessed of their land by confiscations  and impressing European visitors with its cleanliness and industry, and its extensive cultivation producing cash crops as well as food sufficient to feed its inhabitants.When an influx of European settlers in Taranaki created a demand for farmland that outstripped the availability, the Grey government stepped up efforts to secure title to land it had confiscated but subsequently not taken up for settlement. From 1876 some Maori in Taranaki accepted "no fault" payments called takoha compensation, while some hapu, or sub-tribal groups, outside the confiscation zone took the government's payments to allow surveying and settlement.