Hurumanu

Hi,
So In Hurumanu 1 we have watched a video about the early Polynesian people. The Maori people arrived from Hawaiki. The clip that we watched tells us that the early Polynesian people used waka/ boat to travel from Island to Island so they travelled from the Phillipines, Taiwan and lots of other Islands that are close by. In the video they say that some of the Maori even travelled to America.

So the early Maori people that came to NZ in waka, they brought their pets like their dogs and rats. So in the early days people ate Moa so the Moa is became extinct very quickly because they only laid eggs once or twice a year and also the rats and dogs ate their eggs, so they got extinct very quickly. People also used Moa feathers to warm their body because they were cold.

The Moriori are the same kind as the Moari people because they found evidence that prove's that they were the same kind. The evidence that they have found is the Language, the DNA and the Skeleton. That is how they knew that they were that same kind. The Moriori in the early days are from the Chatham Islands. They were Pacifists and they banned cannabalism (eating people).

If you did not know what this words means, so the Whanau means family members, the hapu means a tribe like a village. The Rangitara is like the leader so they are like the king or lords and they make important decisions.

I hope you like my blog post and also learnt something about this blog post.