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Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ⓘ) [i] are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand.Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. [13]
The Kingdom received many immigrants from the United States and Asia. The Hawaiian sovereignty movement seeks autonomy or independence for Hawaii. In the 2010 U.S. census, people with Native Hawaiian ancestry were reported to be residents in all 50 of the U.S. states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. [1]
Sandoval [5] warned, "it is not... that Congress may bring a community or body of people within range of this power by arbitrarily calling them an Indian tribe, but only that in respect of distinctly Indian communities the questions whether, to what extent, and for what time they shall be recognized and dealt with as dependent tribes" (at 46). [6]
A map showing the extent of the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Ancestral Puebloan cultures circa 1350 CE Paleo-Indians are believed to have first settled present-day Arizona at least 13,000 years ago. Clovis spear points have been discovered in several locations along the San Pedro River , including at the Naco and Lehner Mammoth Kill Sites .
This list includes groups recognised as iwi (tribes) in certain contexts. Many are also hapū (sub-tribes) of larger iwi. Moriori are included on this list. Although they are distinct from the Māori people, they have common ancestry with them. [1] [2]
Travelers hoping to visit Hawaii in coming weeks are being asked to avoid West Maui, which has been ravaged by wildfires.
By the time Captain Cook arrived, Hawaii had a well established culture with populations estimated to be between 400,000 and 900,000 people. [6] In the first one hundred years of contact with western civilization, due to disease and sickness, the Hawaiian population dropped by ninety percent with only 53,900 people in 1876. [ 6 ]
An influential New Zealand Maori leader will host on Saturday a meeting to discuss how to respond to government policies seen by many Indigenous groups as undermining their rights and status.