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Sep 5, 1013
Australian Settlement
People sailed across the ocean to New Zealand and other Pacific islands -
Cook Island
British explorer James Cook claimed Australia and New Zealand for Great Britain -
Letters to the Queen
Living conditions on the Aboriginal land were described in a letter written by a group of of Aborigines to Britain's Queen Victoria in 1846. -
STRUCK RICH!
Colonists discovered gold -
Pacific Island Control
In the early 1900's, the United States, France, Great Britain, and Japan controlled most of the pacific islands. -
Mau Movement
In Western Samoa (now Samoa), the nonviolent Mau movement worked for independence, which Samoa won in 1962. -
Asians and islanders in Australia
Since the 1970's, growing numbers of Asians and Pacific Islanders have moved to Australia and New Zealand. -
Compensation
Since he 1970's, the New Zealand government has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to Maori groups to compensate them for having taken Maori land in the past. Compensate- pay for -
Fijian Couping
Fiji's military has led four coups since 1987. Coup- a violent overthrow of a government, often by he military -
Apologize
In 2008, the Australian government apologized for the unjust treatment of the Aborigines.
