This is a list of iwi (New Zealand Māori tribes).
List of iwi
This list includes groups recognised as iwi (tribes) in certain contexts. Many are also hapū (sub-tribes) of larger iwi.
Moriori are included on this list. Although they are distinct from the Māori people, they have common ancestry with them.See 1904 paper by A. Shand on The Early History of the MoriorisSkinner, H.D., The Morioris of the Chatham Islands, Honolulu, 1923. K. R. Howe. Ideas of Māori origins, Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 28 October 2008. Thomson, Arthur, The Story of New Zealand, Past and Present, Savage and Civilized, 2 vols, London, 1859, i, 61. Belich, James, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders, from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp.26, 65-66.