sentences:  The best known cause of Māori land loss is the confiscation in the Waikato and Taranaki regions following the New Zealand Wars.Other causes included owners selling land without fully understanding the implications of the sale (especially in the early years of colonisation); groups selling land which did not belong to them; traders enticing land owners into debt and then claiming the land as payment; the conducting of unrequested surveys which were then charged to the owners, and the unpaid bills from this used to justify taking the land; levying of unreasonable rates and confiscation following non-payment; the taking of land for public works; and simple fraud.Upon losing land, most iwi quickly embarked on campaigns to regain it but these were largely unsuccessful.