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No, the Maori were the first people to settle the islands we now call New Zealand.
Yes, the Maori are the original inhabitants of the islands we now call New Zealand.
Maori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand.
A person from New Zealand is called a New Zealander, a native of New Zealand is a Maori, a non-maori New Zealander may call themselves a Kiwi and a Maori calls a non-Maori New Zealander a Pakeha.
New Zealanders : Maori (the indigenous people) and Pakeha (non-Maori).
Aotearoa = the original Maori name (usually meant for just the North Island but has come to mean the entire country.)And Abel Tasman named it Staten Landt when he discovered it. It was than cartographed as Nova Zeelandia after the dutch province and then it became New Zealand.Nieuw Zeeland after a province in Europe and Aotearoa by the Maori people.
Some Pakeha (non-Maori) New Zealanders might call themselves Kiwis after an unusual flightless bird native to New Zealand.
Ruru in Maori, or Morepork in english. From the bird's call.
Some call it Poneke but it is actually Whanganui-a-Tara
A New Zealander. A native New Zealander is called a Maori, a non-native is called a Pakeha or a Kiwi.
A New Zealand Dollar, or $NZ
The Maori name for the New Zealand native parrot, Nestor meridionalis is 'Kaka'.