MÄori people
Indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand
MÄori (MÄori: [ËmaËÉÉži] ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. MÄori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed a distinct culture, whose language, mythology,...