Tangata Whenua questions:
Use the questions below to help guide your note-taking. You need to identify the key points from
the video and write your own notes. You can rewatch the video if you need to.
the video and write your own notes. You can rewatch the video if you need to.
Your notes will be used to help you write a summary of the video.
- Where did the Māori people arrive from?
Polynesia, Hawiki, Tonga, Taiwan, Papua new guinea and east asia
- How did they arrive in NZ?
By voyaging
- What did they bring to NZ?
Kumara, Dog, Rats
- How did they get food?
By growing crops and when they couldn't because it was to cold they would get kai moana
- Write 3 sentences about the Moriori people
They are maoris they moved to the chatham islands and then were renamed the morimori
They carved into live trees
They didn't have the warmth to have crops so they mainly relied on kai moana
- How did they prove that Māori and Moriori descended from the same people?
By there ancestry and dna
- Explain how the Moa came to be extinct
Because the maori were hunting them
- Why did Māori choose to settle in the places they did?
Because it was loaded with flightless bird and other animals they they could feed off
- In your word bank, write the meaning of whānau, hapū and iwi
Whanu- Family parents grandparents aunts uncles cousins siblings nieces neffs grandchildren
Hapu-Subtribe Another tribe that you are connected to
Iwi- where there from Our whanau and you get it
- Explain the role of the rangatira - list at least 5 roles
Chief
Figurehead
Responsible for the wellbeing and protection of the people in his or hers iwi
Show of mana