Letter+to+Governor+Grey

My name is Ali Cooper and I am writing to you about some of the negative points caused by the European settlers.
==Firstly I am concerned about the Maori, with the settlers arriving with diseases and with animals that also bare disease. It can spread very quickly. The Maori who previously had no need for an immune system now desperately need one but have no immunity to diseases like smallpox & measles.== ==Something else I would like to inform you about, is the cutting down of the native forests and the destroying of birds and insect habitats for things like farmlands and houses etc. It is important that we should not cut down all the trees because trees provide homes for native animals and oxygen.== ==Lastly I feel that there have been many arguments over the purchase of land. A lot of the land owned by the Maori has been taken off them as a punishment for them not following the ways of the British Crown. However a lot of this land has been taken from loyal tribes who have done nothing wrong and I think this is really unfair.== ==I hope that you can help to resolve these issues Governor Grey and bring peace back to our country. I don’t like what has happened to our land since the arrival of the Europeans and I am hoping that you can fix these issues.==