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Many Māori traditions tell of the Polynesian settlers from Hawaiki, who reached the coast in waka hourua about 700 years ago. But there are also myths and legends of earlier beings, such as the first human to be created. Through these stories,
iwi can trace a long relationship with the land, and with the different regions they live in.
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