A character of this ethnicity loses contact with his eldest son, who joins the Brown Fists gang, and becomes homeless after discovering Grace hanged herself. A character who is partly this ethnicity lives in "The Tower" and discovers a sandal with a hole in its heel that belongs to a mute boy. Beth starts a culture group of this ethnicity at the end of a novel in which Jake Heke drunkenly leaves his family, titled (*) Once Were Warriors. This is the ethnicity of the protagonist of a novel in which Simon is beaten by his surrogate father Joe Gillayley but develops a relationship with Kerewin, who rebuilds a marae. People of this Indigenous group appear in stories like "How Pearl Button Was Killed" by Katherine Mansfield. For 10 points, give this ethnicity chronicled in Keri Hulme's The Bone People, set in New Zealand. ■END■
ANSWER: Māori [prompt on New Zealanders; the first novel is Potiki]
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