the Maori in New Zealand. The chiefs became salaried officials,responsi-
ble to white magistrates. Their people were to be "civilized." Missions,
schools, and hospitals would wean them from "barbarism"; employment
on beneficial public works-roads
and irrigation ditches-would
teach
them the dignity of wage labor; and, with white settlements interspersed
among their landholdings, they would profit from the example of civilized
people.!"
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