Beholdenness
A friend told me that if Michael King was right in his dating of Maori arrival in NZ, Pakeha have just now been here half as long. Which feels about right, I reckon.
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I wonder what King dated their arrival as? I was under the impression that they turned up 900AD. I guess Tasman and Cook and co turned up 500 years later, but I don’t know that that counts as an equal to the full-scale settlement from ‘Hawaiiki’ (sp?)