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Maori had no formal name for themselves when contact was first made with non-Maori people (Europeans) so they called themselves 'Maori ', meaning 'normal' or 'natural'.

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The term "Maori" is believed to come from the Maori language, where it originally referred to the indigenous people of New Zealand. The origins of the word itself are not definitively known, but it is used to identify the cultural and ethnic group of people in New Zealand with Polynesian ancestry.

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