Aotearoa = the original Maori name (usually meant for just the North Island but has come to mean the entire country.)
And Abel Tasman named it Staten Landt when he discovered it. It was than cartographed as Nova Zeelandia after the dutch province and then it became New Zealand.
Nieuw Zeeland after a province in Europe and Aotearoa by the Maori people.
Maori (the native people of New Zealand), call the country Aotearoa, which means land of the long white cloud.
The Maori call New Zealand "Aotearoa". This translates to "The land of the long white cloud". Many other New Zealanders also refer to their country as New Zealand or Aotearoa interchangeably these days.
Maori.
The first nations peoples of New Zealand, Aotearoa, are the Maori.
No, the Maori were the first people to settle the islands we now call New Zealand.
Yes, the Maori are the original inhabitants of the islands we now call New Zealand.
It's considered that the first inhabitants of the territory of New Zealand were the Maoris. According to them, the first explorer that reached that land was called Kupe, he navigated following the stars and ocean currents, he came from his native Polynesia, concretely from the island of Hawaiki, approximately 1000 years ago.
Maori.
Maori's are indigenous to New Zealand, Pakeha are the White- born New Zealanders...so the english settlers'- ancestry..if that's what you want to call it.
If you mean the earliest civilization, it is the maori.
The first nations peoples of New Zealand, Aotearoa, are the Maori.
No, the Maori were the first people to settle the islands we now call New Zealand.
The Maori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. They are considered the first settlers of the country, arriving in New Zealand many centuries ago.
Polynesians who settled in Aotearoa and became the Maori.
The Maori still live in New Zealand. Now they share that land with the descendants of European settlers, and with other who migrated there from other parts of the world.
Maori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Yes, the Maori are the original inhabitants of the islands we now call New Zealand.
It's considered that the first inhabitants of the territory of New Zealand were the Maoris. According to them, the first explorer that reached that land was called Kupe, he navigated following the stars and ocean currents, he came from his native Polynesia, concretely from the island of Hawaiki, approximately 1000 years ago.
The early Maori settlers arrived in New Zealand around 1250-1300 AD.