Title: Māori people
Content: New Zealand generally referred to the indigenous inhabitants as "New Zealanders" or as "natives". The Māori used the term to describe themselves in a pan-tribal sense. Māori people often use the term (literally, "people of the land") to identify in a way that expresses their relationship with a particular area of land; a tribe may be the "tangata whenua" in one area, but not in another. The term can also refer to the Māori people as a whole in relation to New Zealand () as a whole. The Maori Purposes Act of 1947 required the use of the term "Māori"

Title: Culture of New Zealand
Content: of equal status; "God Defend New Zealand" —the latter of which is often sung with alternating Māori and English verses. Many citizens prefer to minimise ethnic divisions, simply calling themselves or Kiwis. The Māori are the indigenous inhabitants of New Zealand. They originated with settlers from eastern Polynesian islands, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages at some time between 1250 and 1300 CE. Māori settled the islands and developed a distinct culture over several hundred years. Oral history tells of a long voyage from Hawaiki (the mythical homeland in tropical Polynesia) in large ocean-going canoes

Title: Immigration to New Zealand
Content: New Zealand's geographic isolation, several centuries passed before the next phase of settlement, the arrival of Europeans ( discovery by Abel Tasman in 1642 ). Only then did the original inhabitants need to distinguish themselves from the new arrivals, using the adjective "māori" which means "ordinary" or "indigenous" which later became a noun although the term New Zealand native was common until about 1890. Māori thought of their tribe (iwi) as a nation. James Cook claimed New Zealand for Britain on his arrival in 1769. The establishment of British colonies in Australia from 1788 and the boom in whaling and

Title: Indigenous peoples
Content: In New Zealand pre-contact Māori tribes were not a single people, thus the more recent grouping into tribal (iwi) arrangements has become a more formal arrangement in more recent times. Many Māori tribal leaders signed a treaty with the British, the Treaty of Waitangi, which formed the modern geo-political entity that is New Zealand. The independent state of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a majority population of indigenous societies, with more than 700 different tribal groups recognized out of a total population of 8 million. The PNG Constitution and other Acts identify traditional or custom-based practices and land tenure, and

Title: Indigenous peoples
Content: Marshall Islands. The remains of at least 25 miniature humans, who lived between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, were recently found on the islands of Palau in Micronesia. In most parts of Oceania, indigenous peoples outnumber the descendants of colonists. Exceptions include New Zealand and Hawaii. According to the 2013 census, New Zealand Māori make up 14.9% of the population of New Zealand, with less than half (46.5%) of all Māori residents identifying solely as Māori. The Māori are indigenous to Polynesia and settled New Zealand relatively recently, the migrations were thought to have occurred in the 13th century CE.

Question: What are the indigenous people of new Zealand called?
Answer: Maoris