Māori are the tangata whenua, the indigenous people, of New Zealand. They came here more than 1000 years ago from their mythical Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki. Today, one in seven New Zealanders identify as Māori.
Discover Māori culture in New Zealand
https://www.newzealand.com › maori-culture
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How long ago did the Māori people arrive in New Zealand?
Māori originated with settlers from eastern Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of waka (canoe) voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350.
Māori people - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Māori_people
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This link goes to "Maori Songs", an album of Maori songs featuring Kiri Te Kana, a Maori woman who is a primier opera singer.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=maori+songs+kiri
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While listening to the album, I could imagine being an old man among the Maori indigenous people of New Zealand and using tales, imagination and knowledge to understand where we were and how we got there. It is a long, complex story from "The 10,000 Year Explosion" by Cochran and Harpending to today and it would be very hard to figure the whole business out by yourself. You could try and you could fill in the blanks with your best guess but there would be mistakes, contradictions and difficulties.
The country has a well-known woman prime minister:
New Zealand/Prime minister
Since 2017
And an impressive rugby team, "All Blacks", that practices the "haka", a ceremony based on Maori battle prep:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=all+blacks+haka
It is worth watching. Don't be scared.
