His friendship with Pomare, Tamati Waka Nene and other Maori chiefs and his contact with the European settlers at Kororareka made him more influential than the British Resident, James Busby, at Waitangi.
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James Reddy Clendon (1 October 1800 – 26 October 1872) was an early European settler in New Zealand, the first United States Consul to New Zealand, and a witness to the Treaty of Waitangi.
This was a major settlement in early colonial New Zealand, and was the site of the Treaty of Waitangi, which is seen as the founding document of New Zealand's nationhood.
A week later, on February 5, 1840, the three brothers attended a large hui at Waitangi (400 people) where they had an opportunity to speak publicly about the agreement which would become known as the Tiriti o Waitangi or Treaty of Waitangi.
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He was a non-violence trainer for the anti-Springbok Tour protests (1981), was a member of Project Waitangi (an anti-racism education program), was active in the campaign to secure support from New Zealand for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has served as an adviser to the American Indian Law Alliance on international legal remedies for violation of treaties between States and Indigenous nations.
In the past few years, Moon has appeared on TVNZ’s Frontier of Dreams programme explaining the history of the Waitangi Treaty, on Prime TV’s New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers programme, on TVNZ’s Close Up, Marae, Te Karere, and Waka Huia programmes, on TV3 News, on Sky News Australia, and on Maori Television as an election night analyst.
Waitangi River is the name of two rivers in the far north of New Zealand's North Island.