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The arrival of the Maori people to New Zealand is deemed as somewhat of a mystery. It is estimated that the first Polynesians arrived over 1000 years ago, possibly around 800AD or even earlier. Linguistic and cultural evidence suggests that the Maori

By the mid-eighteenth century, a rich, complex society had grown throughout the country, linked as one people with myths and legends telling tales of the arrival of their ancestors and of the formation of Aotearoa - The Land of the Long White Cloud.