[split] Waipoua Forest

[C_T_Russell]

Native, not indigenous,  there is a clear difference.
Better not talk about the moriori which they wiped out.

You (and Winston) used the word Indigenous, which all of the links I posted proved erroneous.

It wouls seem that the genocide of the Moriori was as much a result of colonising impacts on the indigenous Taranaki Maori as a soley interracial conflict.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_genocide Unfortunately such turmoil occurs when invading forces disrupt the status quo of the existing inhabitants.

Maybe so, but the fact is that NZ  has more than one group of indigenous people.

"Indigenous. relating to or being a people who are the original, earliest known inhabitants of a region, or are their descendants"

I was up at the Dargaville museum some years ago and they have a pre maori artifact on display, the carving was not typical of maori carving.
There are also ancient stone walls in the waipoa forest that are not made by maori.
Some believe they were built by Celtics.