Engelsk fremlæggelse om Maori Culture

The Polynesian people were astronomers and, they brought many women with them on major voyages so they could migrate if they were to come to a place they wanted to stay. A thousand years ago, the Polynesian people travelled from somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean, to New Zealand or so called Aotearoa or ´the land of the long white cloud´. Studies have shown a similarity in their language to natives on Tahiti, Hawaii and the Cook Islands. They populated both of the main islands. Some of the Polynesians were on return trips and went back to their home to start a migration of several canoes and ships that went to New Zealand. The Polynesian people formed and developed a distinct culture called Maori, which was about kinship, links and land. The first Maori settlers brought resources from their homeland to New Zealand to survive the cooler climate, and they burnt down great parts of the forest for their plantations, which is meant to be known as one of the reasons to the extinction of the world’s largest flightless bird the moa. The Moa could reach up to 3.6 meters high and could weigh 230 kilo´s. The time it was being instinct was was called Moa hunter period which lasted 170 years, they used the Moa as a valuable food source, they wanted to grow the Kumara also known as the sweet potato, but it was too cold and the soil wasn´t fibre holding enough to grow the Kumara. They are excellent hunters and fishermen and that made a benefit for them in the early years of the settlement. In order to protect themselves they built fortified forts also called Pa´s, which can secure them from attacks of other Maori tribes. Over a few hundred years, more and more Maori tribes sailed to New Zealand and the population grew to thousands of people