This book makes sense of the way of life and history of the Maori. One issue that I had while perusing the other Charles River's Editor books about New Zealand was the reason the Maori appear to have a fitness for exchanging. The Maori had an idea called "home o home" and that implies a gift for a gift. So at whatever point the ancestral subunits met one another, the meeting bunch gave a gift to the gathering being visited making a feeling of response between the gatherings. The book showed that other local gatherings, for example, Native Americans and native social orders were typically pulverized by sicknesses brought by the colonizers, yet the Maori society began to decline on account of the presentation of black powder rifles. The book depicts the black powder gun battles between the different Maori bunches that endured for about 40 years.