sentences:  From the 1840s to the 1870s, various Māori chiefs and, later, parts of (tribes) fought against settlers and later soldiers, in the 1863-4 New Zealand Wars.They also used petitions, court cases, deputations to the British monarch and New Zealand and British governments, passive resistance and boycotts to try to achieve their goal of a separate Māori political system .Some of this resistance came from religious cults such as Pai Marire and Ringatu.