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...

The first inhabitants of the Chatham Islands were the 'tchakat henu' or Moriori. Tchakat henu, is a Moriori phrase meaning 'tangata...

In the late 1850’s a great political rally of Maori was held in the Wairarapa district, North Island, where it was decided that...

Earlier in 2016, not long after we started all this, we submitted an article on this unique artifact found on the Otago Peninsula. This...

The Aborigine, the Indigenous, those native to... the Maruiwi and the Urukehu, and whatever other name they go by... On 9th September...

A learned kaumatua of the Ngai-Tahu tribe, at Rapaki, Canterbury, provided this traditional information concerning the successive iwi or...

(This is article #316 since we started in Jan 2016) Many may know of this stone found in Northland. It was said, by some, to be an...

Just to explore something new, here are three photos showing bone colour of the femur portion we found that came in with the fill from...

We mentioned a few years back, a case in the South Island where a chief sold a huge parcel of land on the West Coast to Europeans that...

Maori spirals had their origin in the Pacific right? Actually, no they didn't. The reason being is that there isn't any. So where did...