maori

How plausible is it that a Kamehameha analogue could appear among the Maori, managing to unify at least North Island, and maybe even parts of South Island, sometime around the 1780s or early 1800s, and integrate all the iwi tribes into one unit, using pieces of captured western technology? Is...

The Maori King movement is a small effort today to get a Maori monarch for New Zealand. The idea though of a client, unified Maori monarchy ruling New Zealand )or just the North Island) under British "protection" dates to the first British resident minister to the archipelago James Busby...

In 1835, some displaced Māori of the Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama iwi living in what is now Wellington invaded the Chatham Islands using a hijacked European ship. There, they began a genocide against the indigenous Moriori people. What if this didn't happen?

Is it possible, with a PoD after the signing of the Maori Declaration of Independence in 1835, for a native Maori kingdom, under a single head of state (as is advocated by the Maori King Movement), independent from British control (there is the possibility of a protectorate though), to form in...

Your challenge is relatively straightforward: have the Māori establish permanent settlements in Australia.

Howdy! This is a place to actually post and organize anything from my cover of Devon Moore's Great White South timeline. I have his permission to freely post my re-interpretation and further exploration of the setting he created. Not to say that this will simply be an update for that timeline, I...

What if contact between the Māori of New Zealand and tropical Polynesia never ended, using the Kermadec Islands as a stopover en route to the Cook Islands and Tahiti? How would European colonisation of New Zealand be affected with a Māori with a stronger maritime culture? Would pigs and chickens...

So ignoring how they conquered it, Māori from New Zealand settle some coastal areas in Australia. By the time the Europeans arrive the coast from Melbourne to Sydney, Flinders Island, King Island and the northern coast of Tasmania (the rest remains almost unchanged) has been settled by Māori...

Now I want you to imagine the coolest weapon ever. Got it? Okay well, it's not the coolest weapon ever, It's actually a coconut bomb. I was just watching videos, but then I found a video about how to open a coconut without any tools. Which is here Then I kept watching other videos about tools...

What would be the best way to dramatically increase the Maori population in New Zealand pre-1840? I'm thinking earlier adoption of European agricultural methods/crops but even still, Maori were pretty quick to adopt them. However the biggest problem is disease which the Maori had little immunity...