This might be a loaded question. I'm certainly not a colonial apologetic, but the fact that the native population of New Zealand only arrived there so very recently has always intrigued me, especially compared to the Americas and Australia, where the native people had been around for tens of thousands of years, making it very clearly their homeland.

This also ties in on my wider interest in the difference between White-Native relations in New Zealand and other places. PLEASE correct me with I'm wrong, but I always get the feeling that NZ is distinct in that way, what with Maori sharing official language status with English and the likes.

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Thank you!