MAORI
(MOW-ree)
1.
Indigenous people of New Zealand 2. Language
of indigenous people of New Zealand Common clues: Language
that gave us “kiwi”; Polynesian
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Māori
is the name of the indigenous people of New Zealand, and their
language.
The
word māori means "normal" or "ordinary"
in the Māori language and denotes mortal beings as distinct
from the gods. "Māori" has cognates in some other
Polynesian languages such as Hawaiian in which the word maoli
means native, indigenous, real or actual. It is also the name of
the people and language of the Cook Islands, referred to as Cook
Islands Māori.
Te
Puni, Maori Chief
New
Zealand was one of the last areas of the planet to be reached by
humans. Polynesian voyagers are believed to have migrated to what
is now New Zealand from eastern Polynesia in the latter part
of the 1st millennium. Māori origins therefore cannot be
separated from those of their Polynesian ancestors (for more
information see Polynesian culture). Archaeological evidence
suggests there were probably several waves of migration to New
Zealand between 800 and 1300. Māori oral history describes
their arrival from Hawaiki (a mythical homeland in tropical
Polynesia) by large ocean–going canoes (waka). During the
19th and early 20th centuries, the idea arose that Māori had
voyaged to New Zealand in the so-called 'Great Fleet of 1350AD'
which claims that seven canoes arrived simultaneously. More
recent research has revealed that this concept originated with
European researchers including Percy Smith who attempted to
cobble together various unrelated Māori legends. The
spurious fleet scenario was then accepted by some Māori
including Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), and won general
acceptance until it was debunked in the 1960s by the research of
David Simmons and others. In fact nowhere in the authentic
voyaging traditions is there an account of several canoes all
arriving together at one place and time. Migration accounts vary
among Māori tribes or iwi, whose members can identify with
the different waka in their genealogies or whakapapa. There is no
credible evidence of human settlement in New Zealand prior to the
Māori voyagers; on the other hand, compelling evidence from
archaeology, linguistics and physical anthropology indicates that
the first settlers were East Polynesians who became the Māori.
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