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Maori

They roll their eyes, they stick out their tongues and they yell scary sounds. Ones who have ever met Maoris might need some time to get used to them. However, they are not dangerous, because the first settlers of New-Zealand have not been cannibals for a long time. Their culture influences the community of the country and becomes more and more popular today.

“Vikings of the rising sun”

Maori are the indigenous people of New-Zealand. There are lots of versions and suppositions about their arrival in this land. Some scientists believe that Maori originated from the tropical islands of Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean.

If we trust the legends of Maori passed down from generation to generation, so the first Polynesian, who discovered New-Zealand, was the chief Kupe. He was an inhabitant of Hawaiki. After sailing in 950 AD into an unknown land he returned home to tell the people of his findings. However, 200 years should go by till the “big emigration”. Around 1350 AD seven great canoes with 60-100 women, men and children on board sailed from Hawaiki to Aotearoa – The land of the long white cloud; this is how the Vikings of the rising sun called New-Zealand. The names of this waka (canoes) still know every Maori-child:

• Tainui

• Te Arawa

• Aotea

• Tokomaru

• Takitimu

• Mataatua

• Kurahaupo



But there is also one theory which says, that Maori were masters in what they were doing – in navigating; they just seldom made long travelling like this. So it is possible that a storm scattered their boats when they were fishing or when they were sailing the coast of their homeland.

All in all, it is a fact, that Maori did not want to return back home. They settled down and have lived there alone for more than 300 years till Pakeha, the white man would invade.





The people adapted to the climate which was cooler than at Hawaiki, and also rats and dogs adapted to it. Probably they had brought pigs and fowls with them, too, but they obviously did not survive in the climate.

They started cultivating crops such as sweet potato, yam and others.

All in all, it was impossible to die out of starvation, because as they were living next to the ocean there always had been large amount of seafood like: fish, crab, seaweed etc.

Much hunted animal was still the Moa, a four metre tall flightless bird; it was huge so there had been enough food for days. This bird was the most popular animal. Because of that it soon was wiped out.