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  2. Māori history - Wikipedia

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    Evidence from genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology indicates that the ancestry of Polynesian people stretches all the way back to indigenous peoples of Taiwan. Language-evolution studies [1] and mtDNA evidence [2] suggest that most Pacific populations originated from Taiwanese indigenous peoples around 5,200 years ago. [3]

  3. Māori people - Wikipedia

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    There were 887,493 people identifying as being part of the Māori ethnic group at the 2023 New Zealand census, making up 17.8% of New Zealand's population. [114] This is an increase of 111,657 people (14.4%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 288,891 people (48.3%) since the 2006 census.

  4. Polynesia - Wikipedia

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    The Polynesian people are considered, ... of those two sites appears to come directly from Taiwan or the northern Philippines and did ... Maori population began to ...

  5. Polynesians - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous Māori people form the largest Polynesian population, [9] followed by Samoans, Native Hawaiians, Tahitians, Tongans, and Cook Islands Māori. [citation needed] As of 2012, there were an estimated 2 million ethnic Polynesians (both full and part) worldwide.

  6. New Zealanders - Wikipedia

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    The Māori people are most likely descended from people who emigrated from Taiwan to Melanesia and then travelled east through to the Society Islands. [26] After a pause of 70 to 265 years, a new wave of exploration led to the discovery and settlement of New Zealand in about AD 1250–1300, [ 27 ] making New Zealand one of the most recently ...

  7. History of New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    The Māori are most likely descended from people who emigrated from Taiwan to Melanesia and then travelled east through to the Society Islands. After a pause of 70 to 265 years, a new wave of exploration led to the discovery and settlement of New Zealand. [5] New Zealand was first settled by Polynesians from Eastern Polynesia.

  8. History of the Pacific Islands - Wikipedia

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    The history of Tuvalu dates back to at least 1,000 years to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians. the origins of the people of Tuvalu is addressed in the theories regarding the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands to create Polynesia. [14]

  9. Taiwanese indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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    Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, [3] [4] and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan people, [5] are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the island's population.