What was New Zealand like before it was “New Zealand” – before the arrival of Europeans? Join me for a history of “Aotearoa” from the perspective of its first inhabitants, the Māori!
SOURCES & Further Reading:
“The Penguin History of New Zealand” by Michael King
Great Courses Lecture “Lifeways of Australia and the Pacific” by Craig Benjamin
A very special thanks to Literature-YouTube’s favorite Kiwi and our friend Hello Future Me, who kindly looked over my script.
MUSIC:
“Adult Swim” from Age of Mythology Retold OST by Tilman Sillescu
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man this is a pretty cool country i bet all the coolest people live there
Where are you from g
Kia ora! Thank you a lot for trying to pronounce The reo Mōari properly, I'm happy for that today, so thank you
I'm a kiwi. Te reo maori is not what I was taught at school. Its a modern version of the language. Maori also wernt the frist here that's just what they want you to belive.
People dont tell you maori were cannibalistic
"Aotearoa" was never a name that maori used for anything. It's from a myth about a "great navigator".
They knew all the ocean currents too
I hate when Americans waffle about us when they don’t know shit about our country. Like what the fuck is a ‘zeelandd’
2:50 cause it's fun!
Seriously we even do stupidly dangerous things nowadays for the thrill of it. Why couldn't they have developed that life style, cause they enjoyed it?
Honestly really sad you didn't talk too much about the REAL inhabitants of Aotearoa, the endemic birds both extant and extinct.
You did mention them but the way you talked about them made them seem as nothing more then an easy resource waiting to be used by humans and just that.
Note: Aotearoa also refers to just the North Island