what is maori?
Indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand
Māori people
The Māori (; ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. 
for what is thomas ellison famous? He was a New Zealand rugby union player and one of the first Māori admitted to the bar practicing as a solicitor and later as a barrister
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Māori people [SEP] Introduction
The Māori (; ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from eastern Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of (canoe) voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed their own distinctive culture, whose language, mythology, crafts and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern Polynesian cultures. Some early Māori moved to the Chatham Islands where their descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. The arrival of Europeans in New Zealand, starting in the 17th century, brought enormous changes to the Māori way of life.