The Maori Culture

In Maori culture the fern symbolises strength, stubborn resistance, and enduring power. Maori culture is a very important part of life in Aotearoa (New Zealand). For millennia, the Māori people have been the ‘tangata whenua’, the indigenous people of Aotearoa. Arriving here from the Polynesian homelands of Hawaiki over 1,000 years ago.