Maori Cultural Experience

Our Maori Cultural Experience ~ by Jovan 

While we were in New Zealand we went to a Maori dinner experience. The Māoris came to New Zealand with settlers from Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand with waves of Waka (canoe) voyages somewhere between 1320 and 1350. We learned about the Maori people, and how they got to New Zealand. They performed their songs, showed the clothes they wear, dances, and how they fight.  The Māori are the indigenous inhabits of New Zealand. Maori define themselves by their iwi (tribe), Hapū (sub-tribe), Manunga (mountain) and awa (river). The Maori are a Polynesian people most closely related to eastern Polynesian. Maori speak fluent English. Maori are superstitious and religious believing in gods and the spirits of ancestors. The Maori have a language that is called the te reo that they also can speak. One of the words are Kia Ora the meaning is hi or hello. Everyone in New Zealand say hello with saying Kia Ora.