Maori came and settled Aotearoa between 1000 and 1300 AD. The first Polynesian explorers came about 2,000 years ago.
The first new zealand settlers that came to new zealand was the maori people. They were the first people to arrive in new zealand.
The Maori come from New Zealand (Aotearoa) which they settled from Polynesia. In Maori mythology, the traditional home was Hawaiiki.
The Maori people are indigenous to New Zealand, believed to have migrated from Polynesia in canoes around 800 years ago. Their ancestral homeland is thought to be in eastern Polynesia, likely the Society Islands of Tahiti or Rarotonga. The Maori culture and language have developed distinctively since their arrival in Aotearoa (New Zealand).
The Maori people are Polynesian, with origins tracing back to islands in East Polynesia. There is no evidence to support the theory that the Maori came from China. Their ancestors likely navigated the Pacific Ocean from other Polynesian islands such as Tahiti.
Maori chief Kupe is believed to have come from Hawaiki, a mythical ancestral homeland of the Maori people. He is credited with discovering and exploring the islands of New Zealand around 950 AD.
The early Maori came from Eastern Polynesia.
The first settlers were the Polynesian ancestors of the Maori. The first European settlers came from great britain.
The first new zealand settlers that came to new zealand was the maori people. They were the first people to arrive in new zealand.
because there were no laws in NZ, so James busby had come to protect Maori and British settlers :)
Waka (Maori canoes)
New Zealand
They are Western honey bees, imported by early European settlers.
The name Moriori is given and belongs to the first peoples of the Chatham Islands, (Moriori: Rekohu, Māori: Wharekauri). These peoples descend from early Maori settlers in Aotearoa. Early mistaken scholarship produced the 'Moriori Myth'.
Polynesia.
They come from New Zealand. The Maori started it.
New Zealand was colonised by the British in the 1840s, when European settlers arrived, however the native Maori people have inhabited New Zealand since about 1300 AD, arriving from Polynesia on long canoes.
The people known as Maori are - Maori. They are polynesian and they come from New Zealand which they named Aotearoa.