Māori

The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand (Aotearoa), descended from Eastern Polynesian voyagers who settled the islands roughly seven centuries ago, and organized traditionally into iwi (tribes) and hapu (sub-tribes) each holding distinct customary land, fishing and resource rights (whenua and mana whenua). The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Māori chiefs and the British Crown, and its subsequent breaches and later redress through the Waitangi Tribunal established in 1975, remains a central and actively documented feature of New Zealand constitutional and legal life. Māori language revitalization, including Te Reo Māori's status as an official language of New Zealand and widespread kohanga reo (language-nest) early-childhood immersion programs, is a well-documented and largely successful late-twentieth-century cultural movement. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/