This is fantastic, thank you!

If only they had videos like these when i was at school, I was always really bored of NZ history when taught in a classroom, these videos are great!

Mean series... I'll definitely have my tamariki and whanau watch these. Kia kaha,Kia Maia, Kia Manawanui e Mani e te rangatira.

Loved this episode! Looking forward to watching the rest ✌️ Liked and subscribed

I listened to all the episodes on my earpods now im gona have to watch it all again on here lol thankyou guys. Really opened my eyes and now i want to learn more

This is a fabulous series, thank you so much. I assume there is not funding for this, but it would be great if the closed captions were officially written rather than automatically generated, or if there was a link to the transcript. This would be particularly helpful for some of the names. Ngā mihi nui and keep up the fantastic mahi!

What a brilliant resource @Wim. Superb job. Like others have said, I wish it was around in my day and I've learned a lot. Look fwd to watching other eps. Btw, you'd look good in a Spad or Se5a. Take a Friday off one day and join us on flugpark :D

My family and I are really grateful to live in such a great country.Thanks to all the explorers where ever they came from

Thoroughly enjoying this history. Choking with laughter at some of your comments 😂 Makes history fun to learn

Not sure you guys are correct about Tupaia... Banks brought him on board, not Cook. Cook wasn't super keen on having him. And Banks brought him on more as a curiousity as a navigator. Of course Tupaia soon showed his immense talents and became crucial to the journey. As for the reasoning, Banks wanted to learn from the scholar/navigator/priest, but Banks also wanted to keep almost as a pet when he was back in England. He said "I do not know why I may not keep him as a curiosity, as well as some of my neighbours do lions and tigers." It was very weird.

this episode was one of my favs thanks

I am really enjoying your presentation and information. Good to learn more.

Had Cook and Tupaia not made contact, it most certainly would have been the French. Jean Francois D'Surville captaining the St Jean Baptiste was said to have come within close proximity of the Endeavour off the coast of Cape Reinga as the latter was rounding it, although both were unaware of each other at the time and he was unaware of the Endeavour voyage. Marion du Fresne might also have made it a couple of years later, although he did meet Cook in Mauritius before sailing on into the southern ocean. I think doing an episode on French contacts with Māori could be worth the effort, as both groups of French have the most detailed accounts of pā construction prior to the Musket Wars.

You overlooked the canabalism and the taking of slaves particularly after defeating an enemy Canabalism and slavery were rife in Māori history

Well that was bloody good...

This is funny asf😂😂😂 Nga Puhi Nui Tonu!!!

im so happy this media is coming out

Nice rewriting of history. Interesting to see how a different bias chooses to elevate certain ideas and gloss over others.

What animation software do you use? Love the mahi

sooo good ...pai tēnā

Weird how the massacre of the crew of able tasmans ship is utterly ignored. It's an important reason as to why cooks crew was so on edge when they landed.

Love history and thought your show very well presented. I would have loved to have learned about cannibalism, the reasons and methods, or is it something that is to be expunged from history?

This was really good. I had been thinking that it would be great if we had a show like Crash Course but for NZ History, and this is exactly that kind of thing. I would like to know what the source of the "Māori tools in Australia" claim is though. Seems like it could be liable to misinterpretation.

Nice little story you got here. But the true story is a far superior story told. Tohunga, in the old ways pre te reo Māori, will tell you everything. Archipelago we all come from. The island of the nga Ariki. The island of the nga Toa The islands of the Tangata Wairua nui. Wisedom of the Universes.

Kia ora. I love the show and Māori culture. Can you make an episode on hongi hika?

I need to be in touch re the period. Very specif.1828 and 1832.. thanks port jackson. It is important.if not i will Waukoto.thanks.

Polynesians have been in this whenua a lot longer than your research suggests. Maui, you, kiwa, to name a few, were all here way before those waka migrations, just declaring that.

Adaptation to Aotearoa by eastern Polynesian colonists would have been challenging. The comments however about how animals species on tropical islands were faster breeding than animals in Aotearoa do not sound right in the context of the challenges involved. More critical issues would have been the lack of access to many of the plants that sustained life on tropical islands such as taro, breadfruit, yams, sugar cane and baking bananas. The kumara being the obvious exception. It is also curious that the colonists did not have chickens and pigs which provided nutrition in throughout tropical Polynesia.

When I had Maori studies at Northcote College over the North Shore (many years ago now) I used to find it hard going as the teacher used to be uncomfortable which made me uncomfortable. The other students told me that he was uncomfortable and functioned better when I wasn't there. That was the only time I ever wagged school. There were very few Maori students there then in fact you could count them on one hand and still have some fingers left over. I loved school when I was at Otahuhu College but when we went to live over the Shore, it was different atmosphere and it was full on study even when I got home. When my friend said she was going to finish school in the fifth form when she and I were 15 y.o. I said "me too" My mother was very upset, but I refused to go back to school. She even went to the police to try to get me to go back, but I explained to him why. So you parents who move around, talk to your children, see how they are or going to handle it at 15 y o. My Mum could not pay for private tuition at that time..

are we having a good day guys!

Journals and record keeping of the british. Record keeping is very important.

Pou, as in pounamu is a beautiful and rich sound that is very rarely pronounced well. Our lazy pakehafied lips now tend to pronounce pou as pau. It's sad because the ou sound is a beautiful sound in maori. Think of the Rereahu stream Ourongomaipoho, the Hauraki River name Waihou, such poetic sounds but so seldom heard.

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A lot of truths here but also a lot of simplistic opinion based historical stories mixed in to fill gaps- until New Zealand actually accept robust archeology based proof, it’s hard to tell our young people a genuine history for New Zealand.

Kiaora katoa, Maui is tangata whenua. The first person to live on the 8th continent called "Te-Riu-a-Maui." Maui lived on the 8th piece of continent that had seperated from the other 7 pieces of continents. A continent is one of Earth's seven main divisions of land. The continents are, from largest to smallest: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia and now Aotearoa/New Zealand to confirm the 8th continent called "Te-Riu-a-Maui" The "Tuatara Lizard" is one of the oldest lizards in the world. And only found in Aotearoa/New Zealand when the continents seperated the land and the Animal kingdom. Just like the kangaroo to the Indigenous Aboriginal people of Australia. The kangaroo is only found on that part of the land continent and no where else in the world? The Kangaroo did not jump on a boat and paddle from island to island. The kangaroo was always there on that piece of land and survived just like aboriginal indigenous people were always there. Once upon a time the 8 continents were all joined together as one giant piece of land called "Gondwana" or "Pangea" Gondwana was the great southern landmass that formed as a result of the division of a much larger supercontinent known as Pangea about 250 million years ago. This Gondwanan supercontinent consisted of present day landmasses: Africa, South America, India, Madagascar, Australia and New Zealand. Maui had to of witnessed the rise of water on this continent when it was just dry land before the great story of the North Island? The fish that Maui pulled up? being "Te ika a Maui" the fish that Maui pulled up. Maui had to of witnessed that natural event of how the landmass and shape of Aotearoa/New Zealand took place and became what it is today. From one continent landmass to a North and South Island surrounded by water. "Kupe the first" did not witness this natural event that Maui witnessed. Kupe the first did not meet and greet "Maui the first." They lived different timelines. Kupe the first when he first arrived to "Te-ika-a-Maui" he then renamed it "Aotearoa" In some Whakapapa (genealogy) the descendants of Maui who are the first people of the land (tangata whenua) met and hosted Kupe on his first arrival and fed him Hangi (food cooked in the earth) So where did Kupe come from? Its believed by some families according to there Whakapapa and family history. That the people of theTahiti island are Maori who are descendants of Maui and got lost at sea or followed the migrating birds. Tahiti and many of the islands surrounding like Rarotonga are all made and formed over time from hot volcanic rock meaning those islands werent apart of the continent. If so there would of been Tuatara Lizards living on those islands. Those "Tahitian Maori" found the Island of Tahiti by following migrating birds or lost at sea or discover voyage and those Maori descendants of Maui lived 500 years to 1000/2000 years isolated on the island of Tahiti? One day Kupe was born and found his way back to the land of "Te-ika-a-Maui" rediscovering his ancestors of Maui who are tangata whenua the first people of the land. Kupe then Married back into "tangata whenua" The descendants of Maui the first people of the land and continent. 1. Maui owned the continent and called it "Te-Riu-a-Maui" 2. Maui then witnessed the natural event of the sea water rising on the continent to form the shape of the North Island and South Island today as the highest peak of the continent. 3. Maui then named the North Island "Te-ika-a-Maui" the fish that Maui pulled up as he witnessed the sea level rising and covering the continent. Around this period of time its possible that Maui's family members got lost at sea? Adventure? Following migrating birds that have found new land and food to nest and feed? These Maori descendants discovered the island of Tahiti? 4. 500-2000 years later? Kupe voyages from Tahiti/Rarotonga and discovers "Te-ika-a-Maui" 5. Kupe renames the North/South Island to "Ao-tea-roa" (The Land of The Long White Cloud) 6. Kupe is met with a Hangi on his arrival by tangata whenua in the North Island. The descendants of Maui - the first people of the land. 7. Kupe re-marrys back into tangata whenua bloodlines. 8. Ngapuhi Paramount Chief Hongi Hika is a descendant of those tangata whenua bloodlines through his mothers side. 9. Hongi Hika visits King William the 4th in England around the early 1820's. 10. In 1840 a peace treaty is presented to the Maori Chiefs to form a partnership. 11. Aotearoa is renamed by the British as "New Zealand" If you disagree with any of this please comment below to get a civil discussion going.

Not sure how accurate this account is. Kumara came from South America not the Islands. No mention of Rapanui and the families that came from the East pacific.

I´m from France. As the Europeans arrived in New zealand were they impressed with the quality of the metals that the maori used in the making of their knives?

Rangitāhua is known as the Kermadec Islands, and Motu Maha or Maungahuka is known as the Auckland Islands.

Besides Portuguese and Netherlands

Canoe Ocean traveling through swells, kontiki, Egyptian meaning a device with a sail

Bet you didn't know used sea shells to cut and scrap

There where no other Ships know before the Tahitian and British

1:30 You forget to mention the main thing Tupaia had noticed the Maori had adopted since they left the Pacific Islands , Kaitangata or Cannibalism. When Tupaia first come across it It shocked him so much that he froze and turned pale, he was utterly mortified. Alot of the Maori thought of Tupaia as a wus and the warriors used to tease him about his fear of them eating other people. They would do it on purpose in front of him then offer him certain body parts to eat whereupon Tupaia would get sick and throw up , then the warriors would laugh telling him his people were not as tough as the Maori because they did not eat man flesh

Cool video but it misses a lot of mātauranga that is a big part of māori history like the migration from our home in Hawaiki. Why did we come to Āotearoa? How we already discovered Āotearoa before we named it that, and have been going back and fourth NZ and Hawaiki untill the late 15th century. Or how we decend from the Lapita family, and melanesia. How our cultural beliefs and systems evolved from te Kāpu in Hawaiki to what it is now. Or how māori interacted with the real ideginous people of Āotearoa named the Hāmata Tribe, later the term "Moriori" was popularized. Or the Urukehu māori thats genetic traits connect to ngā patupaiarehe. How our people accurately navigated the seas. And were extremely civilised. These are the founding truths that make māori history and future. The people and culture and built on everything i just mentioned.

lol recalling your descendants isnt quite the same as private property right / legal title

The Tahitian and British weren't here to visit, they were here to fight, the Tahitian were back up

Portuguese, Netherlands, British along with Tahitian

We at Malay Archipelago....also fight back British/Holland Colonial....

..Tupaia's comment to Cook and his companions ..''take care for yourselves, for these people are not your friends..'' Cook's diaries and those of his companions are available on-line, read the circumstances for yourself.

What is tupaea's culture called, where he's from. If artifacts are in the museum, does that mean the maori people are extinct

Did Cooks men just open fire for no reason?

Therefore not indigenous. You forgot to mention why Cook’s men shot the Maori. The Maori went for Cook’s sword. And you never touch a white man’s sword 🗡️

The pronunciation of the Maori letter T by this lady is a well intended effort to use traditional pronunciation, but it isn't yet perfected. It sounds too much like a European letter D. The Maori T is pronounced with the tongue flat on the upper palate, a good cm of the tongue on the palate, not just the tip. My father, Takarangi was a Maori language tutor in the 1960s, with fastidious attention to pronunciation, having gained his reo from Waikato and King Country Maori elders from the 1930s. Maori is a beautiful language and when pronounced in tune, it is music to the ear.

I would live to know how our ancestors survived the winters 🥶 and what type of clothing they wore. Did Moa become extinct so fast due Maori killing them for food and clothing from the skins.

We've been here a lot longer than 500 years.

Kia Ora e hoa ma. Am sure many tangata whenua from their own whenua continue to look to Maori for mana and encouragement to help them stand up for whenua,iwi, moana rights. Thankfully and hopefully to help trace their ancestry back to Aperehama in the OT.

All from Tonga Lapita Origin Settlement 😊

Omg so cewl so many facts on moari history

So we eat all the seal did we ?

Tupaia....Cook woulda been lost without him

We'll never know how maori culture would have continued to blossom without colonialization 😣

The narrative polynesians arrived in Nz around 1300 AD is a rough estimate. Particularly based on archeology reports the earliest evidence of human occupation is around that period. Not arrival at best they would estimate life span of the bones prior to death and estimate arrival that way. So in conclusion maori arrival is alot of estimates. You said when cook arrived the people occupying Aotearoa at the time didn't identify as maori. So alot of customs and cultures origions and histories of these people were considered a collective but we know this isn't the case at all. They have tribes and people in Nz claiming origin as far as easter island. And all over the entire pacific. All of these people didn't arrive in Nz by accident so obviously the polynesian ancestors had knowledge of Nz long before 1300AD.

Congratulations for telling a story with some academic grounding. Maori certainly left the Cook Islands and Tahiti, this is not in dispute if you listen to the accounts of both those Island groups who have a record of Maori leaving in the direction of Aotearoa. Also, the story of Tainui the tribe of the Kings tells of Maori arriving here and discovering that there were already people living here. There is no reason to doubt people recording that they were not the first inhabitants of a land that they would eventually come to completely dominate. Those pre Maori inhabitants of Aotearoa were the descendants of Kupe....our Polynesian cousins. Please make an episode explaining why Rapanui speak the same language as NZ Maori with a different dialect, and why Easter Islanders Tupuna are the exact same names as Maori Tupuna from the great migration. The World is obsessed with the Moai someone needs teach them that those Moa at the far tip of the Polynesian triangle are the same family of Polynesians who went the furthest south and settled Aotearoa. Those two stories are the greatest epic in the story of Polynesian migration, please do it justice with a show that links the two furthest points of Polynesia and explains how pre Aotearoa Maori were the explorers that discovered Rapanui and Aotearoa. The Rangatira of Rapanui say this is so. Rapanui Tupuna include names like Hotunui...Hoturoa...my direct ancestors kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdCmna-bzpu6gWg.htmlsi=0dHne8rFzWgj7fhb

People comment about which coloniser would have been the evil better. Maori would have lost whichever foreign imperialist invaded but to what degree. And that Maori should be grateful the British arrived to save the savages. There's the benevolent BS 😂😆🤣

Maori have the right to self determination

Lots of evidence for people that were in NZ before the maori, i wonder why they never had bows and arrows where everyone else in the world did???

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Upoke is the term for Maori slaves. They were about 80% of the population prior to the Europeans. They were the primary source of protein in what was a horrific degeneration of Polynesian society into rampart structural cannibalism - a period of horror that lasted some 500 years until they were rescued by the European. The Maori had come with the original Polynesian caste structure of royals and bonded commoners after being outcast and set adrift on rafts to end up stranded in NZ. Within a recorded period of about 8 generations this then degenerated into 9 different language groups ( no common language) and a horrific two tier ethnically and racially based caste structure. - Ariki / from the original royal elite - these were documented and painted or drawn as lighter to white skinned, wiry, smaller boned, fine featured, thin nose, thin lipped, straight hair, anxious, aggressive cannibalistic ruling class. Upoke / from the original bonded commoners (such bonding or serfdom broke down in NZ as land was unconstrained) and slaves. Upoke or poke was used in conjunction with Kuku or Kiko ie a Upoke Kiko was slave flesh - or else poke singular or pokes group). The Upoke slaves were the 'wealth' of the Maoris and raiding and capturing other clans and tribes Upoke was the primary industry of the Maoris. These Upoke were dark skinned, larger limbed, thick lipped, flat nosed, curly haired, easily fattened, low IQ and sedentary. The settlements of the Maoris (Pa's) were in valley passes where they could anticipate attack from the sea and run into the bush behind. A Pa's very design is as a cannibal storage camp of humans as slave eating flesh with perimeters controlling access and confining the slaves. Have a good look at the original designs of the Pa's and what their real purpose was. Upoke females were normally killed and eaten at birth but on arrival of the Europeans -( trade was for Upoke boiled male heads carved with European arabesques eg 'Maori Moko designs - all European) but with a shortage of that & the trade being policed - the Maori Ariki turned to selling young Upoke slave girls to the sailors and settlers for guns. Often as records show, the Ariki would line up the young Upoke on the beach or field and then tell the Europeans they would all be slaughtered and eaten unless the European met their demands. As such the European settlements were flooded with Upoke slaves, mainly young females being the demand. The Europeans bred with these slave females gave immunity to the mixed race offspring disease such as measles & flu that full blood Maori did not have. Again this is subject to much record (1880 onwards) about the 'revitalization' and out breeding of the Maori being their only path of survival / there was much concern the Maori would become extinct so all Europeans & Maori were much focused on such outbreeding to ensure that a trace of Maori may exist in the future.By 1903 there were no Ariki left and only 14 very old full blood Upoke. The last full blood died in 1944 - as reported by the minister of Maori affairs much later to the NZ parliament. The marked differences between the Ariki and the slave caste were much commented on, discussed and captured in paintings & portraits. Almost all Maori today would be offspring of Europeans & Upoke slaves - the filters of inter Maori fratricide between the Ariki clans & disease acted as an filter to remove both Ariki and full bloods. "A Savage Country" Professor Paul Moon' This Horrid Practice' - Professor Paul Moon, 'Behind The Tattooed Face' - Heretaunga Pat Baker, 'Anthropology In The South Seas' - H D Skinner

some of your wording are incorrect.

The only way a Maori language can be changed is if another People have invaded, the British invade and tried to change our language, so

Saying mapri moved on when resources were out is prof they are referring to white history. Maua went arund the woeld 3 times

The history we’ve been taught about Aotearoa.. real name “Niu Tireni” is wrong. Us Māori people have always been here long before the English and long before Polynesians from other islands came over.

Only 500 years before Europeans arrived wow that’s not long at all

Stone age level cannibals whom had never seen a wheel before Europeans arrived.

Still conveniently leaving out the part of NZ history showing the people here before Polynesians as usual, go watch Skeletons in the cupboard, to brush up on some facts.

A point to be made is during that time Tribes were known as ''Hapu'' and not ''iwi'' or [ bones ]. At the start of the 21st century the Pakeha came up with the idea of ''iwi'' or [ bones ] a name for all the Maori tribes. Maori Kuia did not like ''iwi'' and quote, ''It was the Pakeha idea ''iwi'' ''iwi'' are bones and bones you will find in a cemetery, bones are dead.'' Maori Kuia objected to ''iwi'' and did not like the Pakeha idea at all. Maori Kuia said, ''we are Hapu.'' Protected in Article three of ''The Treaty of Waitangi 1840.'' Nga mihi Pomarie

Excellent video. Thank you. I'm learning a lot. I thought Maori just spent the whole time kicking the crap out of each other in what was an extremely violent culture🙂

I’m not Māori I’m Ngati Kahungunu

We have been here well over 1300 Years.

"They became slow breeders to avoid overpopulation." Wow, those are some clever animals!

2:42 The word Maori does not mean ordinary. The origin of this word goes back to Western Polynesia. Starts from Samoa Maoí, then when they travel east to Tahiti becomes Maohi, north to Hawaii Maoli, Cook Island Maori and finally Aotearoa Maori. The word means indigenous.

Would be good to have a whakapapa Maori view from the many strands of whakapapa like from Toi or Awa. The 'Settler' narratives and the new found colonial fondness for their payed kupapa Tupaia give a renewed weight to racist Crown legal thefts and colonial academic careers. We don't go to Britain and write their ownership out of history. We know they wrote their own whakapapa away. Why help them do it here for funding?

I dont hear of cannibalism and the people who where in new zealand before moari

Maori have told me colonisation is what caused Maori molesting their kids and why father's were rapping their daughters and other whanau member's like uncle's and aunty's were touching their nephew's and nieces. They said pakeha bought alcohol here and Maori drunk it and that's when the molesting started. I don't believe that and tell them to stop blaming colonisation, alcohol for that disgusting behaviour, families need to address whats happened and start lifting the carpets to clean underneath instead of sweeping secrets under there while the victims suffer in silence!!

What rubbish.......can guess who wrote, directed that.........not helpful for new zealand

The country is called New Zealand.

So much estimations and assumptions. 700 people leaving Rarotonga and Tahiti for New Zealand...why...all mass human migration is usually for a few different reasons survival being the main one...also over population,war or fame....but none of these seem to be the case. They want people to think they just decided one day to all migrate south. And why not all polynesians why do all the islands still have people on them after they left did they stay or migrate there after....so many unanswered questions

Quite a history about the Maori - put the Inca's or the Aztecs to shame in degeneration. Outcast during the 13th century as weaker primitive Neolithic people by the invading Hawaiians & Tongans (Maori were from the original wave of primitive Asian/Melanesians pushed right out across the Eastern Pacific by successive stronger more advanced races coming from the west). They were outcast on rafts and some floated up in NZ stranded for 500 years. The weaker were pushed down to the South Island or Chathams etc. So the South Island Maori (had their own language) were the weakest of the weak. They were captured and eaten as 'Slave flesh' by the northern Maori doing raids. (Well they all ate each other - 80% of Maori pre European were dark skinned easily fattened slaves farmed and eaten by a lighter skinned 'Ariki' thin wiry elite royal caste). So it was with some righteousness as well as British cunning that they armed the southern Maori who then with muskets launched a genocidal war on the north.. That plus measles & flu halved the Maori population and removed most of the elite. The British then liberated the slaves and outlawed cannibalism. The northern Maori fought with the British against the south bad west Maori 'rebels'. The Maori sued for peace and a treaty was signed that removed all sovereignty and made them subjects to the English crown where the English would protect them from each other. Land could only be sold to or via the Crown. Maori could live on their reservations with native custom but none did. The treaty of Waitangi is strikingly clear in that the Maori cede sovereignty completely and become citizens of Great Britain - all 3 clauses lock that in. Nothing in today's 'Maori' culture is authentic. The music - all European (Maoris did not have tonal music, the songs are missionary tunes or introduced - Poi dance is from Islands and Stick dance from old Malaya. The carvings and art - all European - Arabesques that was the fashion at the time. Original Maori had limited dash carving and no painting of objects. No written language - all the syntax & grammar plus vowel inflection is European. No technology - some lagoon canoes and wood or stone Neolithic tools. No food sources - like pigs or crops - they left that all behind, all they had was a weak inbred fox (now extinct), some rats and a weak dismal pacific yam. They ate out all the bird-life, didn't know how to farm the sea as were island people and so they turned to societal cannibalism. Today - no full blood or half blood left. No genuine tradition and almost all are offspring of Maori slave females sold to white settlers for muskets or food. -So more fake than the 'Sioux' or 'Cherokee' or 'Crow' who had at least retained some genuineness about who they were and their history. -Everything you 'saw or experienced' is Fake. A totally convected disneyfied tokenistic set of inventions fueled by a grievance culture of mixed-race imposters fetishing a false past bad history because it pays benefits. 'This Horrid Practice' - Professor Paul Moon, "A Savage Country" Professor Paul Moon 'Behind The Tattooed Face' - Heretaunga Pat Baker, 'Anthropology In The South Seas' - H D Skinner

Australian aboriginals been on there country when time was begining.Aotearoa aborigines been here the same. read the signs of this land properly its been inhabited for thousands of years

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So Maori we’re immigrants just like the Europeans,came here in boats just like the Europeans, only difference being the Europeans didn’t kill and eat the peoples that were here before them !

The truth is in te papa museum that the nz governments won't release till 2068.

ok, while I acknowledge that this video is an improvement from previous ones, there're some mis-facts in your presentation which are as follows: 1. The term "Maori" was yet another convenient mechanism to unify the tribes in order to make dividing and conquering easier, because you cannot divide and conquer those who are already independent bodies. 2. "colonisation" in its legal context & general meaning is to be 'sent' from a 'political power' and remain subject to the mother-country, whereas the waves of migratory waka had no duty or obligation to any such aforesaid body in their former homeland, thus the word "colonisation" is not apt and does not technically apply. 3. Oral histories speak of much earlier migratory waves than 1200 AD, furthermore, the NZ Government know this & even use an ancient explorer's marker from circa 650 AD to stake NZ's claim over the Ross Dependency in Antarctica. NOTE: Old Imperial & Ecclesiastical powers based their legal claims to land on certain Papal Bulls that were active from the year 1189 & cannot lawfully make a claim to land evidenced as being settled by pagans before that date -- see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_immemorial 4. References to Ngai Tahu @4:09 and/or southern tribes relying entirely on hunting & fishing instead of plantations is not fact. Southern tribes were trading pounamu with Northern tribes for obsidian from Tuhua (aka Mayor Island, scoria rock) & other items & resources, of which many of these items were found in various spots in the South. Further to that, Southern tribes designed their own unique system of growing kumara in between rows of volcanic rock sourced from the north, & in 1642 at the arrival of Tasman it is now known that vege plantations were evident. So these tribes were NOT "relying entirely" on hunting & fishing. 5. @4:48 the term "sub-tribe" is a mis-description of a western' concept of the native structure, whereas the term 'hapu' is first, then secondly the 'whanau', then the 'iwi'. 6. @6:33 "when these food sources ran out, they simply moved on." - who writes this shit?! NOTE: I only got halfway thru the vid & may watch the rest at an other time.

Bet you didn't know used sea shells to cut and scrap