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We are beginning to appreciate that here too the long-lasting frontier conflict was our most important war, fought for both sovereignty and the ownership and control of a whole continent. By the time the wars came to an end in 1872, O'Malley estimates that 'around 6,000 people had been killed or wounded, over two thirds of them Maori' (3). Until the 1960s it was common for our historians to overlook frontier war and compare our own First Nations with the Maori, the Bantu and the American Indians. [Extracted from the article]