Happy Waitangi Day! If you want to know what is it, keep reading

> You are probably asking "What is Waitangi Day?"
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> So here is your answer:
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> Waitangi Day is the New Zealand national day celebrated each year on
> February 6.
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> Unlike Australia, whose national day marks the settlement at Sydney Cove
> by Europeans, which is often viewed as "invasion day" by the Aboriginal
> people, New Zealand's national day commemorates the signing of the Treaty
> of Waitangi on February 6, 1840.
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> Waitangi Day thus marks the coming together in friendship of the Maori
> people and the Pakeha or white European settlers although it hasn't been
> an easy road from there.
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> New Zealand's nationhood
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> Under the terms of the Waitangi Treaty, the Maori people agreed to accept
> British sovereignty. They in turn were granted citizenship and land
> rights.
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> The treaty, however, has never been officially ratified by the New Zealand
> Parliament (although it did pass a Treaty of Waitangi Act in 1975 which
> sought to honor the terms of the agreement) and has been a source of
> dissension and discord, particularly in relation to land rights.
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> But it is an historic document nonetheless in seeking to clarify the
> rights of Maori and Pakeha and it lit the way to New Zealand nationhood,
> which Waitangi Day celebrates.
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