IJ
Nov 15
224: Questions...
No one was here when Maori arrived around 1280 (well some say around 1280), others say more progressively. Where did they come from? They...
YM & MD
Oct 18
Sidestep: Legendary Footprints on the Pouto Stream
No, this is not on the Pouto Peninsula, but the Pouto Stream at Lake Rotoaira below Lake Taupo. This story centred around the Tongariro...
IJ
Sep 20
223 : Questions about Rapanui
So if the people who built the Moai migrated across the Pacific from Tahiti and the Marquesas and considering the distances involved and...
IJ
Aug 23
Sidestep: PREHISTORIC RAPANUI
A BIOLOGICAL REVIEW OF THE PREHISTORIC RAPANUI PATRICK M. CHAPMAN University of Otago There is a wide range of speculation on alternative...
MD
Aug 2
222 : Origins of the Rei Puta
Most Rei Puta were found in Northland. They say the Rei Puta was an early design and developed in Polynesia. But where in Polynesia? I...
IJ
Jul 12
Sidestep: How quickly was East Polynesia colonised?
The 15 archipelagos of East Polynesia, including New Zealand, Hawaii, and Rapa Nui, were the last habitable places on earth colonized by...
IJ
Jun 21
221: An Explanation of The Treaty by a Maori
THE TREATY OF WAITANGI AN EXPLANATION by The Hon. Sir Apirana Ngata M.A., LL.B., Lit.D. Published for the Maori Purposes Fund Board First...
MD
May 31
Political: Is this just Corporate welfare?
WARNING: This article might offend some readers. Tough! Some things beed to be said, just like they are in marae when speakers challenge...
IJ
May 10
220: The Ngati Mamoe short-Patu
Before we get to this unusual item, lets check on the origins of the Kati Mamoe. The last of them existed in Murihiku where some odd patu...
IJ
Apr 19
Sidestep: THE MOA IN MAORI TRADITION.
You have to love the old language descriptions... From the papers of the late MR. JOHN WHITE, author of The Ancient History of the Maori....
