African-American heritage of presidents of the United States
Calvin Coolidge's mother Victoria Moor was claimed to be of a mixed-race family in Vermont. Vaughn noted that her surname was derived from "Moor", a European term for people of North Africa. He did not note that another meaning of her surname is the landscape feature of moor or bog. People's surnames were often based on such landscape features when surnames became generally adopted in 14th century England. Moor/Moore is a common name in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Māori people
The earliest period of Māori settlement is known as the "Archaic", "Moahunter" or "Colonisation" period. The eastern Polynesian ancestors of the Māori arrived in a forested land with abundant birdlife, including several now extinct species weighing between and each. Other species, also now extinct, included a swan, a goose and the giant Haast's eagle, which preyed upon the "moa". Marine mammals—seals in particular—thronged the coasts, with evidence of coastal colonies much further north than those which remain . Huge numbers of "moa" bones—estimated to be from between 29,000 and 90,000 birds—have been located at the mouth of the Waitaki River, between Timaru and Oamaru on the east coast of the South Island. Further south, at the mouth of the Shag River (), evidence suggests that at least 6,000 "moa" were slaughtered by humans over a relatively short period of time.