There were no people living in New Zealand before the Polynesians sailed there from Hawaiki in 925 AD, and their descendants eventually became the Maori people.
That was the 'Polynesians'.
The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are termed Polynesians.
the Polynesians are Europeans who settled there the word Polynesian meaning many island (in Greek)
The Polynesians discovered Hawaii and called it heaven.
The Polynesian people are christans. They wirship courage
More evidence is surfacing to suggest that the lapita people were a different race than the Polynesians, infact there is little to suggest they were the polynesians ancestors. So they couldn't have created an empire, the lapita were around at a different time than the Polynesians.
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Polynesians did not discover the Americas. The Polynesians primarily settled in the islands of the Pacific Ocean and did not have extensive contact with the American continents. It was the Indigenous peoples of the Americas who were the first to inhabit and discover the land.
Tahiti