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The history of the Māori began with the arrival of Polynesian settlers in New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori), in a series of ocean migrations in canoes starting from the late 13th or early 14th centuries. Over time, in isolation the Polynesian settlers developed a distinct Māori culture.
International indigenous rights in Aotearoa New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. pp. 99–117. ISBN 978-1776560486. McDowell, Tiopira (2018). Diverting the Sword of Damocles: Why did the Crown Choose to Settle Māori Historical Treaty Claims? Australian Journal of Politics and History 2018, 64 (4), pp. 592-607.
To escape punishment for the murder, Kupe and Kura fled in Matahourua and discovered a land he called Aotearoa ('land of the long-white-cloud'). He explored its coast and killed the sea monster Te Wheke-a-Muturangi , finally returning to his home to spread the news of his newly discovered land.
The Māori settlement of New Zealand represents an end-point of a long chain of island-hopping voyages in the South Pacific. No credible evidence exists of pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand ; on the other hand, compelling evidence from archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology indicates that the first settlers migrated from ...
Those that stayed behind settled and intermixed with previously established Māori tribes in the region. People from Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Te Whakatōhea, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and the Tauranga Moana tribes can trace their origins to this settlement. Three members of the crew feature in Bay of Plenty genealogies: Toroa, Tāneatua and Muriwai ...
According to Māori oral history, kūmara were not on board the original canoes that settled New Zealand, but were introduced following multiple return voyages into the Pacific. [24] Kūmara were traditionally grown as far south as Banks Peninsula. This is approximately 1,000 km further south than kūmara had been grown anywhere else in the ...
Kurahaupō was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand in Māori tradition.. In Taranaki tribal tradition, Kurahaupō is known as Te Waka Pakaru ki te moana or 'The Canoe broken at sea', and was reputed to have arrived to New Zealand in the same generation as the other great migration vessels of the Māori (although unlikely to ...
Terraces on Maungawhau / Mount Eden, marking the sites of the defensive palisades and ditches of this former pā. The word pā (Māori pronunciation:; often spelled pa in English) can refer to any Māori village or defensive settlement, but often refers to hillforts – fortified settlements with palisades and defensive terraces – and also to fortified villages.