Here is a link to a NatGeo article. A very good one on the history of this 'lost tribe'. It is a true tale, too much has been discovered and observed for it to be fiction. For all we know, a handful of individulas may still out there, as elusive as the Fiordland moose. https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-lost-tribe-of-fiordland/ And here is a book I discovered written just about this tribe which seems to have a lot of genuine history all blended into a novel of the history of t

They seem to be coming out the woodwork with the institutions closed....

A ' giant '. There are many legends in which giants are mentioned as having lived in New Zealand; some of these relating to historical or...

Sometimes I've wondered about legends... like the Korotangi, where no such legend was ever recorded until an old Maori woman declared the...

In the search to find the rumoured skeletons of a tall race that existed here long before Maori were ejected from their homeland for...

This bowl was found 1.5m underground in Tauranga in the 1890's on a slope of Maungatawa. Yes, 1.5m underground in fern country....

At the centre of maori culture and religion were the gods; the Atua. In Māori belief the natural and supernatural worlds were one – there...

King Kamehameha 1 was a chief who took control of all the islands of Hawaii by conquest. Let's make this clear, the unification of Hawaii...

This was found in Southland. Maori? Not at all. Waitaha? Well, they attribute it to that. No spirals, just concentric circles Maori do...

No one was here when Maori arrived around 1280 (well some say around 1280), others say more progressively. Where did they come from? They...