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Patu were made from wood, stone or whale bone. Both the tip and the blade could be used. It was used for striking, stabbing or parrying.

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They all lived in separate tribes and they fought each other for practical and cultural reasons, such as competition for land –  natural resources and the need to protect stored food supplies. Cultural reasons were linked to the concepts of mana and utu.
Which are power (mana) and revenge (utu).

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One of the greatest stories of the Māori culture tells the story of fishing up of the North Island.
Māui and his brothers went  on a fishing trip. The elder brothers did not want to take Māui, so he hid in the canoe. When he came out he managed to convince his brothers to row out to the deepest part of the ocean, where he cast a fish hook made from his grandmother’s jawbone. It sank below the waves and fastened to the underwater house of Tonganui, the grandson of Tangaroa, god of the sea. Māui hauled up his catch above the water. The land, the North Island, became known as Te Ika-a-Māui (the fish of Māui).

The South Island is thought to be Maui's waka.

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Māori have many stories relating to the creation of the Earth, people and Gods. An important story is that of Ranginui the Sky Father and Papatūānuku the Earth Mother. Rangi and Papa lay together in a tight embrace. They held each other so tightly that no light could get through and the world was in darkness.

Rangi and Papa had many children who lived between them. The children wondered what light was like and were fed up with living in darkness, cramped between their parents. Tāne Mahuta, the God of the forest, decided that they should split their parents apart so the Sky would be above them and the Earth beneath their feet.

After all his brothers were unable to separate their parents, Tāne Mahuta put his head to the ground and used his feet to kick away his father Rangi. With Rangi and Papa separated, in came the world of light (Te Ao Marama) and humans flourished on the Earth. However, Rangi still mourns the loss of Papa and drops tears which become dew and Papa’s sighs go up to the sky, which become mist.

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They came from the Pacific Islands around 1300 CE to New Zealand by canoe (called a waka).

They called New Zealand 'Aotearoa' (which means land of the long white cloud).

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The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 as a peace treaty and for New Zealand to become a British Colony. But not all signed it.

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Rākau Māori (Māori weaponry) was designed for hand-to-hand combat. In battle it was common for toa (warriors) to take a long handled weapon such as a taiaha (long-handled fighting staff) and a short weapon such as a patu (club) tucked into a belt. Māori wore little into battle apart from a maro (kilt) or a tātua (belt). In some cases a tapahu (dogskin war cloak) or a pauku (cloak to shield spear thrusts), was worn. Māori did not use bows and arrows, so fighting was almost entirely hand-to-hand. Famous weapons were given names and handed down from generation to generation.