| Far from resolving the social crisis confronting Maoris, the process widened the social gulf between rich and poor. |
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| Only the Maoris of New Zealand outnumber the Samoans among Polynesian groups. |
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| Joe and about 70 other Maoris arrived in Sydney from New Zealand to take up jobs for the Olympics. |
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| The number of Maoris playing the game in New Zealand has dropped off in the past decade, dramatically so in Auckland. |
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| By the time the Europeans arrived, only a few centuries after the Maoris invaded New Zealand, the last moa was gone. |
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| The Zulu War reminds one of similar discreditable campaigns against the Dervishes, Afghans, Boers and Maoris. |
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| The two communities coexisted until 1835, when a group of Maoris hijacked a British ship in Wellington and sailed it to the Chathams. |
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| Aborigines, Maoris and even Mexicans think he is a fighter for economic justice in the Third World. |
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| In 1642, the Dutch navigator, A. J. Tasman, reached New Zealand where Polynesian Maoris were inhabitants. |
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| Aboriginal culture is nomadic, whereas Maoris tended to settle in fixed communities. |
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| Most affected are the indigenous Maoris and the Pacific Islander groups who have migrated to New Zealand over the past 30 years. |
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| It was an attempt to New Zealandize an epic Australian novel by simply adding Maoris. |
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| The fabrication of the hei-tikis of the Maoris is said to have ceased in the early part of the last century. |
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| The Maoris have a traditional greeting, called hongi, in which they touch faces so that their noses are pressed together. |
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| The Maoris on stage boast a range of physiques from sumo paunches to gym-fed beefcake. |
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| The indigenous Maoris took to the game as much as the Anglo-Saxon population. |
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| This masterly policy of inactivity, represented by the word 'taihoa', had been played off by the Maoris with wonderful success. |
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| Maoris claimed putting a road through a taniwha's home would have been a major insult to all those who believed in the beast. |
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| We were in Maoriland and had determined to do as the Maoris did. |
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| The Maoris of New Zealand and the Khoikhoi and the Africans of South Africa had, however, featured prominently in the concerns of British humanitarians. |
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| South Asians in Britain, Inuits in Canada, Maoris in New Zealand, and Aborigines in Australia receive poorer care and less care than their non-minority countrymen. |
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| The author tells of her grant to visit New Zealand and of the similarities she discerns between the Maoris, Lakotas, and Africans, but we question where all of this is going. |
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| Tattooing the skin by pricking and staining with dye reflects the use of woad by Celtic warriors, warpaint by North American Indians, and tattooing by Maoris. |
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| I explain that those Maoris are New Zealand citizens, and that those Pacific Islanders who are Niueans and Cook Islanders are New Zealand citizens. |
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| At that time, there were around 100,000 Maoris living in New Zealand. |
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| But when the first human settlers, the Maoris, arrived about a thousand years ago, the rats and dogs they brought with them wreaked havoc on the islands' wildlife. |
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| These paints were immediately popular with the Indians of the Northwest Coast of America and the Maoris of New Zealand because their paint never dried hard. |
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| Just as an afternoon on the beach was beginning to seem more and more preferable to the queues and chaos, a group of young Maoris did a haka, re-energising the weary crowd. |
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| The biggest shopping draw we found was the jade, called pounamu or greenstone by the Maoris. |
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| This is where Maoris believe the spirits of the dead depart on the journey to their heaven, called Hawaiki. |
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| There is an ancient legend that if the kauris disappear from New Zealand, the Maoris will also disappear. |
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| The Pakehas cower in a room full of flickering firelight as the Maoris attack, breaching the wall, bellowing war cries, and surging terrifyingly into the house. |
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