Seymour & the Atlas network

[Lilith7]

My Dad, of whom I am immensely proud, was a British Army Officer before he emigrated to New Zealand. He was taught about the Maori Wars at Sandhurst, because the defences Maori built, were in the opinion of British Army strategists, the most sophisticated and possibly the first, military use of trenches...

Not bad for an oft called primitive stone age people.

Indeed, not bad at all. I've heard it said that Gandhi learned the art of  peaceful resistence from Te Whiti & Tohu at Parihaka.

And I think too that for their time they may well have been the world's best navigators & sailors; you don't explore an ocean as big as the Pacific without learning a thing or two.