In late November 2020 a group of Moriori trustees attended a ceremony at the Auckland War Memorial Museum to receive a whalebone taonga...

Maori have been fighting each other since 1350. Many battles, some very famous, are recorded. All were with clubs and spears. Ngati Hotu...

The above carving (known as Tangonge) has been debated by many, including us. In the early days many believed it not to be of Maori...

A skull which has an unquestionable bearing on the subject, was deposited in the Whanganui Museum in 1913. It was found at Te Maire, an...

The Tainui iwi share a common ancestry from Polynesian migrants who arrived in New Zealand on the Tainui waka, which voyaged across the...

This post is about those who invaded, killed, enslaved a people and took over a land not theirs. No, we aren't talking about the British,...

From the journal of the Polynesian Society can be found the following from 1910. Make sure you get to the piece at the very end; after...

In Māori tradition, Tainui was one of the great ocean-going canoes in which Polynesians migrated to New Zealand approximately 800 years...

The Moriori were supposed to be from the main islands of Aotearoa and fled to Rehoku. It is suggested they are as Polynesian as anyone...

The tangata whenua of Central Otago The first who lived in the South Island were the Eroero (or Maweroero) people, who had fair skin and...