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Historian Vincent O'Malley regards the theories as having a political element, seeking to cast doubt on the status of Māori as the first people of New Zealand and as Treaty of Waitangi partners. [5] Amateur archaeologist Garry Law regards the theories as having a racist element, seeking to undermine Waitangi Tribunal claims.
At first New Zealand was administered from Australia as part of the colony of New South Wales, and from 16 June 1840 New South Wales laws were deemed to operate in New Zealand. [68] This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840.
People of European descent constituted the majority of the 4.2 million people living in New Zealand, with 2,969,391 or 74.0% of the population in the 2013 New Zealand census. [25] Those of full or part-Māori ancestry comprise 14.9% of New Zealanders.
The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori). [3] Moriori are Polynesians who came from the New Zealand mainland around 1500 CE, [4] [5] which was close to the time of the shift from the archaic to the classic period of Polynesian Māori culture on the mainland.
Due to New Zealand's geographic isolation, several centuries passed before the next phase of settlement, that of Europeans. Only then did the original inhabitants need to distinguish themselves from the new arrivals, using the adjective "māori" which means "ordinary" or "indigenous" which later became a noun although the term New Zealand native was common until about 1890.
Waitaha is an early Māori iwi, which inhabited the South Island of New Zealand. [1] They were largely absorbed via marriage and conquest – first by the Ngāti Māmoe and then by Ngāi Tahu – from the 16th century onward. Today those of Waitaha descent are represented by the Ngāi Tahu iwi. Like Ngāi Tahu today, Waitaha was itself a ...
c. 1280: Humans first settled New Zealand, according to evidence from the earliest archaeological sites. [5] c. 1300: Most likely period of ongoing early settlement of New Zealand by Polynesian people (the Archaic Moa-Hunter Culture). [6] c. 1400: Rangitoto Island near Auckland is formed by a series of eruptions. [4]
The precise date at which the first inhabitants of New Zealand reached the Nelson Region remains uncertain, nevertheless it is generally agreed that Māori tribes have inhabited the upper South Island for up to eight hundred years. [3] The first known tribes were the Waitaha, Rapuwai, Hāwea, Ngāti Wairangi, and Kāti Māmoe. [4]