SM,

I see your knowledge of Maori history is the same as all your other knowledge...ZERO!

Just because you mistakenly spent a whole term at the 'June Dally Watkins School of Deportment for Young Ladies', before you realised it wasn't a course in Engerneering. That does not give you the right to claim you are university qualified in Engineering with majors in Law, Economics, Politics, History and Sponge Cake Decorating. What it does educate you to do, is choose the right handbag to accessories with your high heels....NOTHING MORE!

SM,

You make your bold statement without having the slightest bit of historical knowledge. Obviously Professor Google was unable to enlighten you on the subject. You had not heard of the Moriori until I mentioned them, then you thought you would claim they were the first inhabitants of Aotearoa. As you don't accept any historical accounts, other than those of the Whitefella such as that unreliable, half mad, drunken sailor, Jimmy Cook.

The Maori have their own account of the discovery and settlement of the land of Aotearoa. The tradition tells us of two brothers who arrived with their respective clans from a place they called Hawaiki to an uninhabited island where one brother settled in the east, and the other to the west.

Pauliar,

Compared to your year 6 education in juvie, I am a genius. So the Maori are pulling the terra nullius argument? There is plenty of evidence that the Moriori occupied New Zealand before the Maori invasion.

The Maori probably considered them fauna for the pot.

Evidence shonkyarse, where is your evidence. Didn't you not claim that while studying deportment for young ladies at 'June Dallies' that the Bunyip People led by your mates Beat Up Bolt and Cry Baby Porter, arrived in Australia before the aboriginals. You will believe anything.

Paul, if NZ becomes Aotearoa, surely that will be the result of the merging of cultures rather than continued clashes?

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Shadow, AIUI the Maori are descended entirely from the Moriori, and there were no humans in NZ before the ancestors of the Maori arrived.

Have you any evidence my understanding is incorrect?

Aidan,

Look it up. The Maori are not related to the Moriori. The Maori came from Polynesia and wiped out most of the Moriori and as such are not the first people.

Pauliar is a scholar of conviction having graduated from juvie with a solid D- and an extensive record who cannot prove anything he posts mostly because it is the result of chemically induced delusions. Or from BS generated by Bend over Bandt, Syph Hanson Young or some other disease-ridden pedogreen.