Who the Māori are: their Polynesian origins, te reo Māori, the Treaty of Waitangi, colonisation, and the cultural revival happening today.
Faglig kvalitetssikret av lærere og toppstudenter · Følger læreplanen (LK20) · Sist oppdatert 2026-10-13
The Māori are the indigenous people of New Zealand, which they call Aotearoa («the land of the long white cloud»). They are a Polynesian people whose ancestors navigated thousands of kilometres across the Pacific in ocean-going canoes, arriving around the 13th century. Today the Māori make up roughly one in six New Zealanders and are central to the country national identity. …