What would a Maori-dominant New Zealand look like?

What would New Zealand look like if the Maoris held the dominant position in the country, as in most of the population is Maori and the government is majority Maori? The POD is that in the early 1800s after initial colonization by British subjects, Britain makes New Zealand a protectorate of their empire, with the colonists being restricted to few trade outposts, where they trade with the Maori and teach them Christianity, never encouraging large scale European colonization, with the Maori tribes eventually unifying into one nation.
 
In our timeline, the Maori ethnic group stayed powerful despite losing land, managed to stalemate the british to the point of signing a peace treaty with them instead outright conquering them
 
European settlements will mostly settle around the coast and some farmland, while Maori will still make up the majority. So a bit like Tonga/Samoa.
 
Wouldn’t the South Island still be majority european or at the very least a significant minority in pretty much every timeline? It was colonized first and doesn’t have many Maoris, seems like something’s like the Otago gold rush would always attract Australian or european migrants, although maybe a different colonial power - French, but maybe also Spain or the Netherlands? - could move maoris or maybe other Polynesian and Melanesian people to the southern island for slave or cheap labor.

In the event of a british domination but not colonisation of the northern island I doubt it would look like the Fijis or similar more northern islands since there wouldn’y be indentured Indians or worker and the brits historically has a better opinion of the Maoris, it would be interesting if the population rebounded, IRL all Pacific people were harshly hit by Europeans disease and colonisation, New Caledonia being among the most hit, maybe North Island could see a population comparable to today’s but majority Māori?
 
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