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When he began the settlement in 1867, he had the desire to live peacefully alongside the Europeans but not be ruled by them so it was in his nature to protest in a peaceful manner. If he had retaliated to the government using force and beginning another war, he would have been outnumbered and outgunned by the government and would have lost, had his people killed and his settlement destroyed and all hope of living peacefully alongside the Europeans would have been lost. By using passive resistance he could protest for this peaceful existence without the government crushing him and his people like they had done previously with other Maori tribes. The quote by Colonel Whitmore the minister of defence at the time gives a good European perspective as to why Te whiti might have used passive resistance: "If Te Whiti takes up arms it will take a very short time to deal with Te Whiti. He is much more troublesome to us as a prophet than he ever would be if he took down firelock and used it on the settlers.

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