TL;DR: Key Takeaways The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand Their population stands at around 16.5% of New Zealand's total. They arrived in New Zealand between 1250 and 1300 CE.

But Maori is also an official language in Aotearoa (NZ). Maori people used to be forbidden to use this language in schools . Now however there has been a push by Maori to have it more widely used.

The speaker of New Zealand 's Parliament told lawmakers he would not consider further complaints about the use of the country's Maori name, Aotearoa, in Parliament, after one lawmaker sought to have ...