The word 'māori', pre Colonialism, meant 'ordinary' or 'common'. All people in New Zealand, regardless of whatever country they came from were therefore ordinary or 'māori' people. As we all are (or shoul be) today.
Māori came into use as a name 8 or 10 years after the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, lumping native peoples of many different origins under the same banner, similar to what happened amongst the native peoples of North America. This confuses understanding of a person's origin or heritages. That is one attribute of Imperialism.
'English' is a universal language, not a race of people. 'Anglophone' refers to 'English-speaking', and doesn't imply any definite or particular ethnicity.
It is this divide-and-rule nature of Colonialism (Imperialism) that creates any Māori/Pakeha division, and if you take away the blaming / victimhood aspect of 'they did this to us', then you see both (although there is only one) doing the same thing!
The Earthly carnal intellectual side of our nature, worse when it is collective and political, is suppressing the people. Promoting the 'race' issue [divide] as a tool or proxy, to keep the money rolling in for the administration [rule]. Maybe it would be better to rephrase 'divide-and-rule' to 'divide-and-administer'. It is a spiritual cannibalism, with the love of money being the main driving force. Of course, the influence of Marxism does not make it easier.
In the 1840's Governor Grey with and his associates had 'friendly natives', and the Northern missionaries and other folk that Grey dealt savagely with, had 'friendly natives'.
So Te Tiriti, The Waitangi Treaty in 1840 was NOT based upon race! more here A page and a half long, and written about the late 90's about some events in 1840's. The story hasn't altered.
It astounds me the number of unlearned (so called 'experts') who quote articles from early history, who use the name 'Māori' in the place of 'native', 'New Zealander' or similar.
METOIKOS 09/26