Category: Opinion

8 April 2022

Aotearoa, a European Hoax

February 18 2009 Maori arise. Tuhoe, march. You are in danger of having foisted upon you, in the guise of Maori history, a great European romantic invention. We are talking here about the name Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. It is being promoted, and not for the first time, as a replacement for the old-fashioned, misspelt moniker New Zealand, which, in the […]