Taiwan's Indigenous Tribes Want Maori to Visit 'Home'

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Lincoln Tan, Taiwanese Indigenous Tribes Want Maori 'Cuzzies' to Come 'Home' for a Holiday. New Zealand Herald, Oct 9, 2016.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new ... p;objectid=11725650

Note:
(a) Bren, The Ultimate Traveller's Guide To New Zealand Slang. May 16, 2014
http://www.brenontheroad.com/travellers-guide-new-zealand-slang/
("Cuz – While technically short for 'cousin' this is mostly used as a term of friendship, but can also be used as just a casual way to address someone. Sometimes the longer form 'cuzzy' is used.

Example:
Staff: 'Sir, here's your Big Mac combo, no pickle extra fries.'
Jack: 'Oh, cheers cuz.' (translation: Thanks man)")
(b) New Zealand Herald
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Zealand_Herald
(1863- ; published in Auckland [the most populous city of New Zealand, whose capital is Wellington]; the largest newspaper circulation of all newspapers in New Zealand)
(c) "Jouan Pan 潘慧安 [a woman] * * *  a senior council [Taiwan's Council of Indigenous Peoples 原住民族委員會] officer and member of the Amis tribe 阿美族"
(d) "Another council officer Sayun Tosu [綜合規劃處國際事務科] 莎韻‧斗夙, a member of the Atayal tribe" 泰雅族
(e) "The brand identity 'uhtan'e ho mimimiyo' in the Tsou 鄒族 language means 'wandering from one village to another 來，從一個部落走到另一個部落.' "

(f) "Biological scientist Geoffrey Chambers believed the connection can be traced back 60,000 years.  During this time, people of the Papuan language group populated Australia, Papua New Guinea and some Bismarck Archipelago Islands.  Later they travelled south from Taiwan and passed through the Philippines and Indonesia.  Papuans and Austronesians intermarried and gave birth to contemporary Polynesians, and ultimately settled in what is now New Zealand."
(i) Bismarck Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck_Sea
(Like the Bismarck archipelago, it is named in honour of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck)

The map shows Bismarck Sea and Bismarck archipelago (divided into various provinces of Papua New Guinea, which was independent from Australia in 1949.
(ii) For Geoffrey Chambers, see Geoff Chambers. Reader, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.
www.victoria.ac.nz/sbs/about/staff/geoff-chambers

Go to the section whose heading is "Research Interests" and click the first of three interests, which is "Human Ancestry and Health." In the new Web page, the map crystallizes his views expressed in the quotation. However, it is wrong -- not just in view of the latest article (see my Oct 3, 2016 posting titled "Taiwanese Atayal 泰雅族 to northern Philippines to Vanuatu to Tonga") but conventional wisdom that when aborigines of Taiwan left to people (uninhabited) Pacific islands, they did not interbreed with Melanesians (at least initially).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesians
(A) reader (academic rank)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader_(academic_rank)
(an appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship; section 1 Overview)
(B) Victoria University of Wellington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_University_of_Wellington
(public; established in 1897)