Maohi

Maohi (Mā’ohi in Tahitian language) are the ancestors of the Polynesian peoples in Tahiti and adjacent islands.

The term can also refer to normal, everyday people, just as Māori is accepted among native or indigenous people in New Zealand or the Cook Islands as the way they describe themselves. Te Ao Maohi (the Maohi world), an expression coined by Oscar Temaru, is an example of this.