Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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179 | Sheet 1 — The Waitangi Sheet | Tokitahi | Tokitahi | Kaitāia 28 April 1840 |
Tokitahi signed the Treaty of Waitangi on 28 April 1840 at Kaitāia.
Although little is known about Tokitahi, he gave a speech at the hui: ‘I have no land to give the Governor … We were gentlemen before, we will be greater now. Now we have more blankets, shirts, and trousers. Our houses were once made of rushes; they are better now. I have made my speech.’ [1]
[1] Quoted in T. Lindsay Buick, The Treaty of Waitangi: or, how New Zealand became a British colony, Mackay, Wellington, 1914, p. 148
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