[2018年最新整理]IntroductiontoNewZealand,Canada,AustraliaandIrishRepublic.docVIP

Introduction to New Zealand History According to Māori legend, the great Polynesian navigator Kupe came to the South Pacific around 1200 years ago. His first sight was not of the land itself, but of a long white cloud that hovered above it, and so he named it Aotearoa, which in Māori means the Land of the Long White Cloud. The country was later called New Zealand.Today, New Zealand is proud of its identity as a Pacific nation, based on a partnership between Pakeha, as New Zealanders of European origin are called, and Māori. At the heart of that partnership is the Treaty of Waitangi, an agreeme