How the remoteness of the Chatham Islands forged a resilient people. Sometime between the years 1000 and 1600, a group of people set sail, likely from the shores of the South Island of New Zealand
New Zealand
Aotearoa / New Zealand
The Māori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Although New Zealand has adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the rights of the Maori population remain unfulfilled.
New Zealand Encounters
On the evening of 18 December 1642, two waka of Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri people approached two strange ships, which had anchored near the north-western tip
War in Whanganui
Following the battle of Moutoa Island in May 1864, Hīpango pursued the retreating Pai Mārire (Hauhau). Fighting continued from fortified positions upriver,