... Maoris. It is believed that the Maoris arrived over several centuries beginning at about 1000 AD. The Maoris had a tropical culture preferring to live in the warmer North Island rather than the colder South Island. Their culture was a stone-age culture. They used animal and human bones as well as stone to create their weapons and tools. They had a close kinship with ... it was strongly assumed that the Maori race would assimilate into the European culture and disappear. Fortunately in 1985 the Waitangi Tribunal decided that the Maori language would be "taonga" (treasure) which is protec...

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