A Fulbright grant funded psychologist David Ausubel’s research on discrimination against these people in the 1950s. In 1979, engineering students preparing for an offensive capping stunt were confronted by members of an activist group of this ethnicity whose name translates to “the Young Warriors.” Whina (“FEE-na”) Cooper led a 29-day march to protest the theft of land from these people by pākehā. These people were the subject of affirmative action policies during the government of Helen Clark, which were opposed by the National Party. Since 1975, a tribunal has investigated violations of an 1840 agreement by which these people allegedly ceded “sovereignty” to the Crown, the Treaty of Waitangi. For 10 points, name these Indigenous people who use the name Aotearoa for New Zealand. ■END■
ANSWER: Māori [prompt on Polynesians]
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