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Kōrero: Ideas about Māori origins

‘The first home of our Maoris’

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‘The first home of our Maoris’

I te tekau tau atu i 1930 tini te tamariki i akona i ngā kura o Aotearoa, ko Īnia te kāinga tuatahi o te Māori – anei te tauira mai tēnei whārangi nō te puka a Whitcombe, a Pictorial story of New Zealand. I pōhēhē ngā pūkenga pērā i a Edward Tregear, he ōrite te reo Māori ki te reo Sanskrit, te reo taketake ake o Inia. Kīia ai te Māori he ‘mohoao pai’.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: P-Box J919.31 WHI 1937

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

K. R. Howe, Ideas about Māori origins – 1840s–early 20th century: Māori tradition and the Great Fleet, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/4170/the-first-home-of-our-maoris (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā K. R. Howe, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009.