... , but nothing further but masses of travel guides in which the Maori were rarely mentioned. So I tried the next source of knowledge, the Internet where I found various homepages about this theme. Many of these pages are run by Maori tribes, who want to inform about themselves and their history. On the whole, this work is mainly a product of a vast Internet research ... of each tribesman depended on his ancestry, that's why genealogy for Maori was very important and remained so till today. The position of the chieftain was inherited from father to son. It was him who decided what the trib...

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