Enroute Mt. Aspiring, NZ
We would be remiss to recount our many adventures in New Zealand and never once mention the Maori.
The “native” people of New Zealand are themselves settlers from a foreign land. Polynesian in origin, the Maori trace their roots back to the people of the South Pacific who used their…
“mind-bending supernatural powers of badass navigation so awesome it took the West hundreds of years and a satellite network to replicate what Polynesians could do in their heads around the time the rest of us were learning that fire was hot”
…to locate, land on and settle these islands a few hundred years before Europe came on the scene.
Massive authentic Maori war canoe : 75 feet long & able to carry 100 warriors to battle.
Eventually the West did show up and to make a long story short we colonized New Zealand and eventually claimed her for England. The nation retains its card-carrying status as a member of the “Empire on which the sun never sets” to this day as a member of the Commonwealth.
So where did this leave the natives?
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