Post by Brent George on Sept 2, 2021 22:58:09 GMT
While European navigators hugged coastlines during the Middle Ages, Māori purposefully sailed across the vast Pacific Ocean to discover Aotearoa, a Canterbury historian and new author says.
University of Canterbury lecturer and researcher Madi Williams says major historical inaccuracies scribed by European scholars “unable to fathom the ability of Polynesian voyagers” dismissed their achievement and skill as “accidental drift voyages”.
Williams (Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Koata) has now published an indigenous account of the history of Polynesia.
Stuff - Pou-Tiaki: 3-Sept-2021
University of Canterbury lecturer and researcher Madi Williams says major historical inaccuracies scribed by European scholars “unable to fathom the ability of Polynesian voyagers” dismissed their achievement and skill as “accidental drift voyages”.
Williams (Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Koata) has now published an indigenous account of the history of Polynesia.
Stuff - Pou-Tiaki: 3-Sept-2021