For others who are forced to use this to answer questions in a google doc: Voyage was kicked off by volcanic eruption, then famine (2:55) Polynesian people originally came from the coast of south-east Asia (1:11) Aotearoa was the last landmass found by the Polynesians (2:37) Kupe and his wife were chasing a giant octopus (3:22) Hawakii was multiple islands around Tahiti and the Cook Islands (4:19) All you need to know about Moriori is 5:17 - 5:58 (the rant that comes afterwards is just myth-busting, so kind of relevant but not really) Maori became known as 'Maori' upon contact with Europeans, before then Maori meant ordinary (16:04) Extinct bird count is around 32 (8:25) Social structure is 11:19 through to 12:42, the names are spelt (ignoring the lil flick at tops of words) whanau, hapu, iwi, mokai (slaves), tutua (people), rangatira (chief and family), tohunga (wise guys). 12:45 - 14:39 is the spiritual concepts (although this wasn't a question for me, it might be helpful for others)
what a fantastic history of Maori people, just loved this, im an Aussie who absolutely loves New Zealand, thanks for a great informative doco, i love this! peace and stay safe
@@wombatforestfilms6248 My comment was a cheeky one I say to all Aussies wasnt expecting an answer , but found what you said interesting as I actually didn't know what you said , So she was innocent. Thank you for replying
So beautiful hearing about the migration I always always wondered about! All I ever heard was stories from people who also don’t know. And it’s nice to not just see the depressing wars…I’ve watched those videos and they just make me sad…those people are my ancestors, I see my whanau in those videos! Only so much trauma I can watch. I feel enough of the inter generational mamaē as is! Enough! I love how you guys keep things light so it’s more watchable and hence I’ll stick around to learn more, ai kapai! If History was this interesting when I was at school over 20 years ago, I would’ve actually listened! I remember learning about the rest of the world a lot of the time, apart from the colonised perspective shoved down our throats. Kids are so lucky these days learning about what actually happened! So lucky.
The auto-captioning is hopeless at te reo Māori (and often the kiwi accent too). So here's an accurate transcript for those that need the accessibility
For early Polynesian explorers arriving in Aotearoa would have been buzzy. For one thing, it was huge! The islands of New Zealand are ten times bigger than all the other islands of Polynesia combined. And this land was full of stuff Polynesians had never seen before; snow-covered mountains, bubbling mud pools, enormous trees and gigantic birds. But the biggest difference was the climate. It's way colder here. Polynesians brought crops with them from the Pacific; taro, paper mulberry and kumara. It took a lot of experimentation to keep those tropical plants alive through a New Zealand winter. Luckily they didn't need those crops to avoid starving because Aotearoa was jampacked with kai [food]. The forests were full of flightless birds which had no experience dealing with predators on land. Archeologists have found the rubbish dumps of early Māori and they are overflowing with bones of flightless birds, particularly moa bones. Moa were essential to the lives of Māori for more than a hundred years. They ate them, the bones were carved into fish hooks and ornament, the feathers were woven into cloaks to protect against the cold. The word Moa is actually the same word Māori originally used for chicken but there's a big difference between a moa and a chicken. Your average chicken can lay up to 300 eggs a year. You can kill and eat a lot of chickens and the population will bounce back pretty quickly. But you can't do the same thing with moa. Moa only laid one or two eggs a year. This made them very vulnerable to extinction and Māori don't seem to have realized this until it was too late. Within a few hundred years of humans arriving in our territory 32 species of bird were driven to extinction, including all nine species of Moa plus several other flightless birds like the Adzebill, the native New Zealand goose and pelican. This wasn't just down to hunting, the extinctions were also driven by introduced rats and dogs which ate birds eggs. Archeologists and geologists have found layers of ash which suggest huge fires ripped through New Zealand's Bush around this time. They were probably lit deliberately to flush the last few birds out of hiding. These extinctions left a lasting impression on Māori. 300 years later, when Europeans arrived in Aotearoa, Māori still had a whakatauki [proverb] mourning the loss of the moa Kua ngaro pērā i te ngaro o te moa" "gone as the moa is gone". There's a similar saying in English 'dead as a dodo'. From the fifteen hundreds on, Māori had to find different sources of kai [food]. They focused less on hunting birds and more on agriculture and kaimoana [seafood]. There was more emphasis on kaitiakitanga, the sustainable management of natural resources. developed their own traditions and way of doing things different from their Polynesian ancestors. There was also an increase in warfare as people fought over the best sources of kai. Before this point Māori had mostly lived in small camps which only lasted until the local food sources were exhausted but now they needed more permanent settlement so they could stick close to their crops and defend them from outsiders. This is the point where Māori started building Pā - fortified areas which people could retreat to if they were attacked. At least, that's what happened in the North Island. Most of the South Island was too cold for growing crops so tribes down south still had to keep moving, harvesting seasonal sources of kai. Over time Māori developed oral traditions which reinforced connections to the land which sustained the tribe. Often these traditions referred back to the arrival of their tūpuna in Aotearoa for example, when the waka 'Te Arawa' arrived in the Bay of Plenty, "Tamatekapua [her captain] sprang up and pointed out to the headland which juts out into the sea at Maketu and said "that point there is the bridge of my nose" it said that by claiming the land to be part of his body he made it sacred and the claim was recognized by everyone on board. Connections to land and ancestry were also encoded in visual art forms these patterns were carved into Wood or pounamu or even directly into the skin through ta moko [facial tattoos]. Over time Maori developed their own traditions and way of doing things different from their Polynesian ancestors. That stuff's really important for understanding Māori history from this point on so it's time for a super quick tikanga Māori crash course. The basic unit of Māori life is the whanau, the family group. Then there's the hapū, the tribe. This was a network of families who usually live together in the same village. Finally there's the iwi this is a confederation of hapū who all descend from the same waka or foundational ancestor. These connections told Māori who they were and where they'd come from. Who they could reach out to for help both in peace and war time. Within Māori society there were divisions based on class. At the bottom level were the slaves, taurekareka. But this wasn't slavery like we think about it today. These were enemies captured in battle who were sort of absorbed into the tribe of their captives. Above them were the tūtūā, or ware, the common people. Then at the very top were the rangatira, the Chiefs. It's tempting to think of rangatira like kings or lords because their titles were passed down from parent to child, but it was more democratic than that. Rangatira had to consult with their people about important decisions and usually, they respected the will of the majority. Alongside the other three classes were the Tohunga, the expert class. These people were like living spiritual libraries. They passed down the iwi's accumulated knowledge, their tribal history and whakapapa [geneology], where to fish or hunt, how to carve a wharenui [meeting house], how to heal illnesses, how to deal with supernatural forces. Day to day life was built around interlocking spiritual and cultural concepts. There are lots of these concepts, but we're gonna focus on three of the major ones; mana, tapu and utu.
Mana is partly related to your status it can be inherited from your ancestors and enhanced by the way you act in life. If you were a great warrior or a skilled weaver that would increase your mana. But if you were lazy or rude or just generally a bit useless that would degrade your mana. Mana also means authority, your respect. There are stories of rangatira [chiefs] who had so much mana they could scare their enemies into running away, even if they were outnumbered 10 to one. Next we have tapu. You could translate this as sacred or forbidden. Violating tapu risks offending the gods, and they could make you sick or even kill you. Finally there's utu. Utu is the principle of balance or getting even. If someone gives you a gift, utu demands you give them a gift in return. If someone attacks you, utu demands you settle the score. Utu, tapu, and mana were important for day to day life. Mana helped maintain social bonds. It encouraged you to work harmoniously to increase your personal mana and the shared mana of the tribe. Tapu was there to protect people from supernatural forces, and from practical stuff. It's tapu to sit on a table but that's also to do with hygiene and keeping our kai [food] away from our butts. Hitting heads is tapu because your head has your brain in it. And a rāhui [a ban on entry to, and resource gathering from, the area it is placed], when someone dies in the river is a form of tapu so people don't eat fish or eels that have been feeding on human remains. Finally, utu encourages you to pay your debts. However Maori society wasn't a perfect utopia. Our old traditions of Māori warfare can be pretty horrific. Defeated enemies were often eaten,not because they were hungry, but as a way of absorbing their mana. But that doesn't make Māori culture unusually barbaric or evil, every culture has skeletons in their closet. Also we should be careful about seeing Māori as all the same. Māori have a lot of shared heritage but we also have distinct cultures and traditions, different styles of carving, different legends, and local dialects of te reo Māori. Like you might notice me saying words like w[h]anau and w[h]akapapa when it's normally said as whanau or whakapapa. I'm not saying it wrong, that's just my local dialect from from Whanagnui. Māori spent about five hundred years developing ways of living in this whenua [land]. There was trading, warfare, alliance, betrayal, feasting, famine, natural disaster, migration, discovery. The population grew from a few hundred to about 80 or 100,000. Some estimates have put the number as high as 200,000. Most people lived in northern parts of the North Island where it was warmer and easier to grow crops. By modern standards your average Māori had a pretty hard life. Many people suffered arthritis from paddling waka and carrying heavy loads on their backs. They often developed serious dental problems because their food was full of grit and tough fibers. Average life expectancy was about 28 years and that might sound short but it's roughly the same as Europeans in the same time period. 500 years after arriving in Aotearoa, New Zealand's largest land animals were gone but the bush teemed with birds. The largest kahikatea trees reached 80 meters into the sky in the sea was full of fish. And up until this point in history nobody in Aotearoa needed to use the word Māori to refer to themselves. The word Māori literally just means 'ordinary' and no one had ever met anybody who didn't meet that description. But in 1642 tangata whenua saw something totally new. Somewhere near the northern tip of the South Island, billowing white sails appeared on the horizon. Maōri were about to have the very first encounter with Europeans and their encounter was not going to end well. But that's a story for the next episode. Thanks for joining us on the Aotearoa history show produced by RNZ and made possible by the RNZ New Zealand on Air Digital Innovation Fund.
0:00 (Introduction) Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. 1:08 The ancestors of the Polynesian People. 1:51 The ocean going waka. 2:36 The last land mass. 3:19 Kupe. 3:57 The migration fleet. 4:15 Hawaiki. 5:13 Rekohu/Wharekauri/Chatham Islands - Moriori. 7:06 First arrivals. 7:30 Crops. 8:40 Species extinction. 9:33 Agriculture/kaitiakitanga. 9:54 Pā life - crops, fortifications, social structure. 10:25 Oral traditions. - Te Arawa - Maketū, carvings. 11:06 The evolution of Māori customs (tikanga) in Aotearoa. 11:19 The basic unit of family life - Whanau/Hapū/Iwi. 11:44 Divisions of class - Taurekareka (captives) Tūtua/Wāre (common) Rangatira (chiefs) Tohunga (expert). 12:42 Spiritual/Cultural concepts - Mana (Tapu (sacred) Utu. 14:25 The Utopian view of Maori as a singular society, language, culture debunked 15:10 500 years of Pre-European settlement - Trade/Exploration/Fighting/Population growth/Average Life-span. 16:22 The arrival of the first European explorers - Abel Tasman
Very interesting the part with the volcanic eruption (Samalas) I didn't knew it at all ! I also found very funny the fact that taurekareka would means slave because here in Tahiti taure'are'a means the youth or youngsters, and if you break down this word in te reo Tahiti you can see that it's composed in two others, Tau= Time, period, era... and re'a= pleasure, joy, happiness... So it's even funnier when you think about it ! Māuruuru for this beautiful video 'Ia ora na
@@michsymons2625 'Ia ora 'oe, very interesting ! but it's not that surprising when you think about it. Are you a samoan speaker ? I'm very intersted about polynesian culture in general. Mauruuru.
@@henerebordes3089 Yes I am a samoan speaker. Im very interested in Polynesian culture too. Im very interested in Tahiti and its origins? Do you know where Tahitians origins are?
In Samoa the taule'ale'a serve the village and the chiefs so I don't think it's a big jump from serving the village to being regarded as a slave. Or perhaps catching these untitled men and enslaving them.
So cool to be educated on NZ history. I noticed Lee was saying whenua and whakapapa as 'wakapapa' and 'wenua'. So cool to see different representations of Māori language.
Yeh I wondered if she was pronouncing it wrong as well until she mentioned that that how her lo al iwi say those words. I always was told it was pronounced with and f sound not the wh sound. Very interesting especially the moriori but
Polynesians did land in sth america, thats were we got the kumara from and one of reasons why its so precious to us, if you do some research there is a doco where the sth Americans say we were the first to visit them back in the days, they also have one of our old waka on display.
@@edbroaotearoa1198 yeah genetics link Māori and taiwanese, which is right next to china, and kumara and language Māori to Easter Island which is south America. Polynesians had boats lol, was kinda their thing
It is interesting to note that recent research suggests (as outlined on a recent Maori Television documentary on the Chathams) that Morori were in fact decimated and subjugated by Maori who had travelled from the mainland. Migration and aggression are often linked over the need for vital resources for survival and this was prominent in every migration no matter the race or culture, world history tells us this.
this is not recent research but rather historical fact. the timing of these events is important. when maori began arriving from around 1250AD there were no people in new zealand. a group of maori (or rather the eastern polynesians who inhabited new zealand) left mainland nz around 1400-1500AD to live in the chatham islands and became moriori there, isolated for hundreds of years. in the late 1700s they were "found" by europeans, the chathams became a base for whalers and sealers, and then in 1835 a group of ngati tama and ngati mutunga took a british ship from wellington to the chathams with the intention of taking the land (and people) as their own. within the last few years the land has been returned to moriori, along with compensation and an apology from the nz crown, and the enshrinement in law of the history of what happened to the moriori from 1835 onwards.
Great video, well done. One of the major point I take from all this is that no matter who we are descended from, whether Maori or European that we all suffer from the same human frailties. Man's inhumanity to man is a story to often told in ancient and modern history and not specific to any race or culture, well maybe because we all belong to the human race. To quote African American academic Thomas Sowell, " It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" and a well known one from Winston Churchill, "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
Thomas Sowell is indeed a very great man , I wouldn't rate Churchill except for him being the only person to ever be able to get drunk then sneak up behind Stalin at Yalta, and then silently gesture to his submachine gun wielding bodyguards 'Shhhhh' then to the horror of everyone around proceed to give Stalin an almighty Wedgie....... now that is a legend to do that and survive. sadly, his bodyguards did not.
keep in mind that the homeland of the Indonesian nation is in the region of South China and in relation to the region of South China is a navigating nation such as the Austroasia and Austronesians that they have been recorded thousands of years ago by Chinese sources
Loving the video! But its sad we still dont give the Melanesians any recognition for their part in the oceanic exploration of the pacific. Popular believe needs to update their narrative with the new science. The area in southeast asia where the polynesians came from is in the Maluku Archipeligo between Papua and Indonesia. They are Melanesian in origin and are said to be the first true Polynesians when they culturally mixed with the later influxes of Austronesians. They also invented outrigger canoes and double hulls since ancient times. Sea faring warriors! The so called missing link!
This is an important point. I'll preface this by saying, these terms are all partly problematic in that they were created by a French man (Charles de Brosses) based on entirely superficial observations, such as skin colour... However... The perception that Polynesians are simply and entirely Austronesian, is largely due to the way that Polynesian language and cultural cosmology has largely been inherited from the Austronesian side. But as you've said, in reality our Polynesian culture is a mixed inheritance from both our Melanesian and our Austronesian forefathers. Therefore I don't think it's as simple as to say that Melanesians (a.k.a. what we now, in wake of Brosses, perceive as Melanesians) or that Austronesians (a.k.a. what we now, in wake of Brosses percieve as Polynesians) either created the outrigger canoes alone. But it was, as far as I have understood, through a trading and interweaving of these two cultures through which the Polynesians, among many other mixed Pacific peoples often considered now as lying outside of that term, sprung forth. Many of these South-east Pacific peoples are considered more "Melanesian" nowadays, many considered more "Austronesian". However, in reality these boundaries are very blurred, and people seem to largely use language as an indicator of this, leading to much confusion over the status of Fiji; a huge player throughout Polynesian history, yet they are set apart by European linguists and geographers alike due to a different language, perhaps darker skin. This is even despite the huge amount of other cultural overlaps with Polynesians which extends to the present day. Sorry for my wordy run-on sentences, I hope they're readable! But yes, I very much agree that more acknowledgment must be paid to our Melanesian forefathers, who were some of the first to humans to ever brave the ocean, from 50,000 years ago onward. Through this lineage is also our link to the indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Certainly cannot go overlooked.
@Urbn Ctrl, thank you for your interesting post. Oldest DNA skeletal remains found in Polynesia are between 2700 - 3000 years old. The DNA of these people/skeletal remains pointed to Taipei and Northern Philippines, they did not have any Melanesian DNA. It was 1000-1500 years later those with Melanesian DNA arrived into Polynesia firstly via Solomons (Marata) then into Viti. Upon arrival, they adopted the culture of the native population and also incorporated/borrowed some of their language.
Melanesians came only as far as Fiji and made it to Nz earlier than the Maori as some of the Iwi tribal storys talk of earlier Darker ,and lighter skinned peoples that were already here. The Maori Regarded them as being not as advanced as themselves and feral. They had a habit of turning their heads and only looking at people through their peripheral vision.
@@sarahfunaki3884 Yet melanesian dna is found as far as South Americas. Someone is lying, its either the genetic data that is incorrect or the narratives of the newcomers. Also, NZ back when the Melanesians were there was part of a bigger plateau almost as big as modern Australia. When the Austronesians came from Sundaland - most of the continent of the inhabitants of that area had just survived a major catasrophe and it is highly likely that the people they encountered were the highlander nomadic peoples that were the biggest groups of survivors of any flood since the advanced civilizations often inhabit the coastal areas (which in the case of Zealand was obviously flooded.) Many Melanesian stories tell about this giant flood which also is part of the origin story of the West Papuan islanders and Torres Strait Islanders. The fact does not negate the megalithic structures made by the melanesian peoples who lived on the coastal areas before this flood happened around 10.500 years ago. Also: Maluku is in West Melanesia the opposite end of Fiji - and is literally off the coast of Australia and Papua which is a focus zone of Melanesian ancestry.
Probably not. Have a look at Kaimanawa "wall" the dig was an awesome vid. Go see it yourself if you can too. The right angles cut blocks are slowly moving to show themselves, with the tree on top.
probably the closest theory to match historical events. But always surprised that the main reason some islands become inhabited overlooks the obvious. Whether there is a reliable enough source of fresh water. Without which survival is impossible.
Great episode. Interesting that the eastern Polynesian colonists did not have/bring chicken and pigs which were food sources throughout the tropical Pacific.
I have a theory about the Moa extinction. I think it's possible Maori wanted to extinguish the Poukai or Haast Eagle. If this was the goal. The easy way to do it would have been to cut off the food supply.
Interesting whakaaro. I don’t think it was intentional. Much like humans everywhere I think we were simply ignorant to a sustainable method to hunt them.
@@eeeaten Motivation in this case would have been they were scary and at the top of the food chain above us. Used to be stories about them taking not only sheep and other stock but small children I believe.
One problem with Maori oral history is it's twists and turns away from facts. I had always thought we dominated Moriori and always thought they were a very separate people, and probably my whole whanau believe that too. Thank you for correcting that problem with me
Your segment on Moriori was extremely misleading and honestly I'm very disappointed in that. The Moriori WERE massacred by Maori! when was this "debunked"? The last "true blooded" Moriori was in 1933, this is quite easily find-able. Even the government acknowledges this. Yes, strictly speaking there are thousands of Moriori alive today but they are not full blooded Moriori, again, they WERE wiped out. The way you said it "wasn't true" multiple times and claimed anyone who said otherwise was racist was incredibly tacky and reeked of dog whistle politics. What exactly wasn't true? The Moriori being the original inhabitants? The Moriori being wiped out? The Moriori still existing today? There are several distinct questions asked and the answer you gave was simpy "It's not true" I have to believe you are referring to Moriori being a distinct group apart from Maori, a point the facts seem to agree with. But you don't address the two other distinct questions and instead simply state it's not true even though you are factually incorrect. This leads me to believe either you are ignorant of these facts - which I doubt based off your knowledge shown during your videos OR you are deliberately misleading viewers into agreeing with your world view. I implore you, teach history. Not politics.
The invasion of the Chathams is discussed in the series, but there are certainly many people alive today who identify as Moriori and who would be horrified by the claim that they have been 'wiped out'. What the part you refer to is strongly refuting is the idea that Moriori were pre-Maori inhabitants of NZ who were wiped out by Maori. We are not questioning the 1835 invasion. See more here: teara.govt.nz/en/chatham-islands/page-3
@@TheAotearoaHistoryShow Kia ora, nga mihi for your response. Yes I thought that is what you were referring to, my point was that the way it was relayed was misleading as several questions were asked but only one answer given - implying the answer applied to all questions. Either way, thanks for your mahi on the rest of the series. Enjoyed it!
I have one other question about Moari's. I've read that further back in history kakapos were sometimes kept as pets. Were only Maori chiefs allowed to do this or could anyone in the iiwi do so?
Hi Simon, thanks for the question. The credits at the end name the historians who fact-checked the entire series. We've worked closely with the Ministry of Culture and Heritage and consulting historian Basil Keane. But we've also consulted a handful of other historians who are specialists on their area and a whole bunch of books... many of which you can see piled up on the desk in the studio. Views of history are always evolving, but we've worked really hard to be very rigorous and even-handed on the best information historians have now.
Hi Zeb, Basil Keane is a Māori Historian. We also consulted with Dr Joanna Kidman (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa) who is a sociologist who has done research into teaching NZ history.
@@TheAotearoaHistoryShow 'views of history are always evolving'. Herein lies the problem! It either happened, or it didnt. It is not negotiable according to the propaganda you wish to push
@@chchwoman9960 Exactly. Academia has been so infested for decades with neo-marxist radicals that when there's 2 or more competing narratives, the one that favours their agenda will be promoted to the detriment of the actual truth. Usually white European bad, indigenous good, even when recognised as nuanced by a neutral observer
Can you explain how slavery differed then? Saying iut's not how we picture it, but that they were enemies absorbed into the tribe sounds exactly like any other slavery. Plenty of enemies were enslaved historically by other civilizations. This sounds like an excuse to try to make yourself sound better, whilst having enslaved people.
Slavery takes different forms in different cultures. These days we tend to think of slavery mostly through the prism of enslaved Africans in the 1800s. This was what we call "chattel slavery" where slaves have no rights, earn no pay and can be bought and sold. But that's not the only form of slavery. For example in Ancient Rome, slaves sometimes were allowed to earn small amounts of money which they could use to buy their own freedom. There were also some limited rights for slaves where they got days off for special holidays. Some Romans who fell into debt would sell themselves into slavery to settle their debt, then buy back their freedom at a later date. Taurekareka are different again. Maori had no concept of money so slaves weren't paid or sold in the same way as chattel slaves or Roman slaves, and unlike African slaves, the children of Taurekareka could become full members of the tribe of their captors. That said, there are also stories of really nasty mistreatment of Taurekareka. I don't think there's such a thing as "good" slavery, but we felt it was important to acknowledge the differences in Maori slavery compared to the enslavement of Africans in particular.
Its different because it wasn't chattle slavery as we know today. Which was invented with the trans atlantic slave trade. The idea that most people think of when they think of slavery
The reason there are no pure blood Maori not even 50% is that each tribe had their own female slaves (from other tribes) and sold them to white settlers for either muskets / food. Thats why today some "Maori" even have blond hair and blue eyes!!! go figure
@@wairoa55 Actually there is a 100% Maori blooded person. If you're going to espouse things at the very least be accurate. And what you described is simply slavery. African tribes did the same thing. It is not different in any way whatsoever. Good try though.
The tsunami info came from Gavin Menzies book 1443?As well as ``Tsunami The Underated Hazard``by an Australian Professor whose name at present I can`t remember
Read the book .Chain of Evidence. It would be hard to find .but some still hv it .I managed to read and still hv it as it explains Maui isn't a myth but of flesh and bone.
I´m from France. As the Europeans arrived in New zealand were they impressed with the quality of the metals that the maori used in the making of their knives?
So they wern´t impressed because the metals were of poor quality? Had the maori even discovered metal before the Europeans arrived in New Zealand?@@eeeaten
@@eeeaten I was hoping that you could help me. You seem so well informed. What were the other crafts that the maori people of New Zealand had that the Europeans were so very impressed with? Had the maori people of New Zealand discovered metals before the Europeans arrived in New Zealand? I am gathering information for an essay about maori technology, more so how advanced the maori people of New Zealand were in comparison to other people around the world. Their discovery of metal would give a good indication as to how advanced they were in comparison to other cultures as other cultures had discovered and used metals for well over 1000 years. I am very gratefull for your help.
I got my students to watch once, then take down notes as a running text (bullet points, icons etc) , group notes together under key ideas, then use these notes to create a summary. Otherwise, I've created my own questions after watching to guide students to the key information - a bit like an information quest, ensuring the questions are deep thinking - For example: Episode 1: Not "How much did the ocean rise after the most recent ice age?" but instead " Explain why scientists are concerned a slight increase in the world temperature" (This is for year 8's). By creating my own I can ensure the correct focus, i.e. we are focussing on leadership, so my future lessons will focus more on the why, how and consequences of decisions made by those in power, Grey, Hōne Heke etc. Such a great resource with so many opportunities for beginning our learning of the history of NZ.
i'm from near there. the local dialect has a very soft "wh" sound, so "whanganui" is pronounced close to "wanganui", and likewise you can hardly hear the "wh" in whanau and whakapapa.
They did make it to South America and North America Polynesian fish hooks and skulls found in chille also Polynesian ship found of queens island in Canada poi pounders Hilda Guaii
A lot of misinformation in your presentation. -- "Aotearoa" was NOT the name given to these islands as a whole -- There exist histories of voyages that PRE-DATE the arrival of Kupe -- South East Asia in NOT the only originating point; whereas there were several -- It's been determined that the kumara came from Peru, thus, evidencing a point of migration -- Data on stone structures around the country have been embargoed by the NZ Government -- Said structures are 1000's of years old -- The oldest known grave in these islands evidence DNA from micro-poly-mela groups -- Like your alleged volcanic eruption, the global event "Te Huripureiata" is not factored into this presentation -- Oral traditions refer to over 150 waka arrivals over many years -- The korero of Hawaiki originates from beyond just the Pacific islands -- The 'prevailing winds' theory was DEBUNKED in the 90's by capable waka seafarers using traditional navigation methods -- The waka that arrived here were NOT "stuck for good" -- The Moriori myth birthed from the colonial machine aligns also with what is being expounded in your video -- Your claim that fires were "PROBABLY LIT DELIBERATELY TO FLUSH OUT BIRDS" is not backed by evidence -- It is NOT KNOWN how said fires were lit -- Natives did not JUST live in small camps prior to 1500, whereas many paa were densely populated before that time also -- "Life expectancy was 28" -- not according to oral histories and data -- "[S]erious dental problems" -- this is debunked by early accounts including the detailed observations of Western A. Price While I commend your intent and effort to share our korero, I do not support the perpetuation of factoids. Nga mihi
@@heminuiraho879 uporu and havaii o.g Tahitian island names are named after uporu in samoa. There was also a havaiki in the cook islands. If you look at place names in eastern Polynesia you will find many places with cognate names in samoa and Tonga. Havaii and havaiki were named after savaii - the big island in samoa. Hawaii was also named after savaii
to clarify, the first people to arrive from polynesia were the first people, and arrived in the mid to late 1200s. there were no others before them. as more polynesian people arrived, they found other people living here - those polynesians who had come before them. the end.
Peruvian people were here before Polynesian people. All stone carvings are from them. Plus the designs Maori use today. The TIKI comes from Mexico. Same as the Kora, koha designs. They are painted in the caves of the Aztec people in the Grand canyon. Over 3000 years ago. This program has know references on dates and times.
Aotearoa was not the Maori word for NZ they had no concept of a combined nation state then . Te ika a maui and Te wai pounamu were what the Maori referred to the north and south islands. In the Treaty of Waitangi the word Aotearoa did not exist then, and they used Nu Tirani for NZ. Aotearoa was a creation of Pember Reeves a Pakeha who used it in his interpretation of the Kupe story in a school's journal book in 1899 which he felt he had the right to make up certain bits like Aotearoa meaning land of the long white cloud which he made up . Aotea is the name for Gt Barrier and where he changed to make his fictional name Aotearoa. Over the 20th century many Maori and Pakeha raised on schools journals came to believe this was the real Maori name for NZ, but this is wrong.
aotearoa was embraced as the maori name of the country by kingitanga, so has a long history in nz as being the most widely supported maori name. isn't it better than the other options?
@@eeeaten Since 1899 when a Pakeha school teacher decided to mix and match Maori sounding words to come up wth a name he reckons means land of the long white cloud , I think not. The other thing he fucked up that we all beleive now is Kupe first sighting NZ and seeing the Snow on the Southern Alps and thinkig it was a cloud . Back then most Pakeha lived in Canturbury and could relate to that , But according to which ever Tribal account you beleive to be true, because they are different, The ancestors of the Maori first landed at Whangaparoa up near Opotiki, Whanau a apanui lands.. Kingitanga do not represent Maoridom and are just a bunch of rebels that tried to take power for themselves but got dealt too by the majority of the Tribes that stayed loyal to the crown and defeated them in battle. So they have no mana to be embraceing Pakeha words on behalf of the rest of us like that,
@@sarahfunaki3884 kingitanga popularised aotearoa as a reo Maori name that represents this country. Over the last hundred years it has become the most widely recognised and accepted reo Maori name for this country. It isn’t perfect but isn’t it better than the other options? What would you prefer?
@@eeeaten The way this country is heading with its dismantling of Pakeha institutions and replacing them with archaic 'Maori' ones is a move that is going to fragment this nation turn Maori against Maori and teach our children a false narrative of history of Maori being victims of pakeha. Your support of Kingitanga something my Tipuna fought against just highlights the future host of problems this country is going to fall into if we start pulling apart the threads of this nations fabric that binds us together. If u want to replace those threads with flax because it is what our tipuna used, it will fall apart and destroy that unity we actually had as a people before. . New Zealand is the Name of this country . Aotearoa is a joke and shows people's lack of knowledge of our past. If you want to change our name to a Maori one how about, Whakapohane i te tou it's Traditional, the Majority of the Iwi used it, and can be easily done in sign language which is also an official language of this country. Whakapohane should be done by all school children towards the flagpole each morning as they sing our national anthem . It holds more mana and cultural relevance than some name taken out of a school's journal story about Kupe written by a pakeha in 1899.
I agree that the majority of māori come from the pacific Islands but there was a small percentage that come from Peru and they are the red head māori's.. just wondering why they were left out of this episode? New Zealand Skeltons in the cupboard talks about these people.
@@eeeaten The Fijian Drua(Sea Vessel) is the biggest and advanced "canoe" in all of Oceania. Almost every pacific island traded with Fiji just to get a Drua.
@@eeeaten It didnt start from fiji mate🤦🏾 I was saying that most of the islands used the Drua. The Drua was the biggest of all. They traded just to get the Drua. I mean look at the Original Maori Waka. Its a paddling boat. Then look at the Drua. Which is in this vid. Fiji have alot of Types of canoes and all have different names. Unlike others they all have one name.
This should be the largest chapter and not focus on the recent pakeha led 'arrival' narrative. Aotearoa is Maori and that destiny was not to be whitewashed to focus on British Colonial occupation.
@@titiwhai The British Colonial cultures are well catered to from theft and erasure of Maori Aotearoa. No one needs any more input from your cowardly, underhanded White Supremacist side.
@@eeeaten If that happened, how come I haven't heard about it? Because I am a hardcore history buff. If this truly happened, I would have known about it and written it in the comments.
@@eeeaten. Hundreds of years ago, the Moriori of the Chatham Islands took a solemn vow of peace known as Nunuku's Law. Their decision to uphold this sacred law in the face of Māori aggression in 1835 had tragic consequences. Moriori were slaughtered, enslaved, and dispossessed of their lands.
@@eeeaten Cheers eeeaten. Stewart, this is a pervasive myth but every theory around pre-Maori humans in NZ has been well and truly and repeatedly debunked. All the archaeology we know of at this point suggests the first people came to NZ late in the 1200s or very early 1300s.
Zero evidence. You came from Tahiti and cook islands and they came from samoa and Tonga. The original poly culture formed in Fiji before the darker blokes pushed us out
@@tiotiwilliams8311 I think that myth comes from Mormonism. I grew up in Hawaii, and from the time I was a child I was taught by Mormon leaders that the Polynesians were descendants from the Lamanites, who the Mormons refer to as the original native Americans (there is no DNA or archeological evidence to support this claim). According to Mormonism, the Americas were originally settled by Jews who left Jerusalem at the time of the Tower of Babel. Long story short, the Jews who didn't listen to "god" were cursed with brown skin, and the ones who listened to "god" remained white. The brown skins eventually killed all of the white skins. Later on, the story talks about how a man named Hagoth sailed on a boat never to be seen again. The men in power in the Mormon church told the Polynesians that Hagoth is the original ancestor of the Polynesian people. The only solid connection that Polynesians have with South America is the kumara or sweet potato. Some Polynesians have travelled to South America in ancient times, and a few marriages were made as evidenced by some Rapa Nui people having DNA from South America (admixture). Other than that, South Americans are not part of the actual origin of the Polynesians.
Your diagram of polynesian migration is wrong. Pacific ocean winds blow from east to west. So polynesians would have had to sail against the wind to go from micronesia to polynesia. And travel as far as Rapanui and Tahiti before using the wind to get to Nz. Its not wrong per say but it creates confusion
yes, they went against the prevailing wind direction to find new lands. that way it was easy to get home if you didn't find anything. they did not travel al the way to polynesia in one go.
"The exact details of how the ancestors of Polynesian people travelled around the Pacific are still a topic of debate among researchers. Some suggest the first explorers must have used sailing technology which allowed them to travel into the wind. Others argue these technologies weren't invented until later, and that they weren't needed by the first explorers because shifting patterns in the climate meant there were periods where predominant wind patterns switched directions for several decades. This may have created new opportunities for voyaging to different islands with the winds at their backs. The choice to show Polynesians sailing as if they had the wind at their back in our animation was more an aesthetic choice than us weighing into that debate one way or the other. We are trying to represent where these voyages took Polynesian peoples, rather than the details of how they got there." Source: www.science.org/content/article/unusual-climate-gave-polynesian-explorers-boost#:~:text=Some%20scholars%20have%20taken%20these,islands%20southwest%20to%20New%20Zealand.
@@eeeaten what beliefs? What fantasy? This video is a resource for history teachers snd students, but it's presented in a way that is very biased and unprofessional.
@@Timeforcommonsense pretty sure you're talking about where they say people in comments will be writing nonsense about pre-maori. that's what you're talking about, yeah? happy to be corrected :)
I believe they did it because they wanted to see where the sun comes from. They found out that when they sail into the wind that if they got into trouble they could get home a lot easier.
Love the content and I am so glad that something like this is finally being produced for New Zealand History, but I think the presenters need to be a bit more lively/engaging. They come across as if they don't want to be there, you really need people who are passionate to present these history topics (see John Green, Indy Neidell) and that isn't coming through at this stage.
William Ray I was watching this with some friends and we commented on how great the sound production was so that makes a lot of sense. Didn’t intend to be negative, as I said I’m really glad something like this is being produced and I hope RNZ produce another season that focuses on specific events.
wrong. migrations - especially over long distances in the ocean - require a lot of resources and planning. it's not an act of desperate people but of well equipped and well trained people.
