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People sailed across the ocean to New Zealand and other Pacific islands
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British explorer James Cook claimed Australia and New Zealand for Great Britain
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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.
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Colonists discovered gold
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In the early 1900's, the United States, France, Great Britain, and Japan controlled most of the pacific islands.
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In Western Samoa (now Samoa), the nonviolent Mau movement worked for independence, which Samoa won in 1962.
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Since the 1970's, growing numbers of Asians and Pacific Islanders have moved to Australia and New Zealand.
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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
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Fiji's military has led four coups since 1987. Coup- a violent overthrow of a government, often by he military
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In 2008, the Australian government apologized for the unjust treatment of the Aborigines.
