(30-09-2023, 04:53 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote:(30-09-2023, 01:53 PM)harm_less Wrote: You (and Winston) used the word Indigenous, which all of the links I posted proved erroneous.Maybe so, but the fact is that NZ has more than one group of indigenous people.
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.
"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 pretty 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.
Oh dear! Surely not that ancient chestnut again. Every so often it gets trotted out by racist idiots, keen to prove ancient Celts, Portugese, or indeed anyone at all got here prior to Maori.
They just can't cope with the reality. And Doutre in particular has associations with Nazis.
https://books.scoop.co.nz/2008/11/18/no-...en-letter/
https://keithtonkin.wordpress.com/2016/1...w-zealand/
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)