Editing Nelson, New Zealand (section)

===Māori settlement===
Settlement of Nelson began about 700 years ago by [[Māori people|Māori]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/10289/2690/1/Lowe%202008%20Polynesian%20settlement%20guidebook.pdf|title=Polynesian settlement of New Zealand and the impacts of volcanism on early Maori society: an update|last=Lowe|first=David J. |year=2008 |publisher=University of Waikato|access-date=29 April 2010|archive-date=22 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522032853/http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/10289/2690/1/Lowe%202008%20Polynesian%20settlement%20guidebook.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> There is evidence that the earliest settlements in New Zealand were around the Nelson–Marlborough regions. Some of the earliest recorded [[iwi]] in the Nelson district are Ngāti Hāwea, Ngāti Wairangi, [[Waitaha (South Island iwi)|Waitaha]] and [[Kāti Māmoe]].<ref name="Walrond">{{cite web|last1=Walrond|first1=Carl|title=Nelson region – Māori history |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/nelson-region/page-4|website=[[Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand]]|publisher=[[Ministry for Culture and Heritage]]|accessdate=18 September 2021|date=7 September 2010|archive-date=18 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918070806/https://teara.govt.nz/en/nelson-region/page-4|url-status=live}}</ref> Waitaha people developed the land around the Waimea Gardens, are believed to have been the first people to quarry [[argillite]] in around Nelson. They also developed much of the Waimea Gardens complex – more than {{Convert|400|ha}} on the Waimea Plains near Nelson.<ref name="Te Tau">{{cite web|last1=Mitchell|first1=Hillary|title=Te Tau Ihu|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/te-tau-ihu-tribes|website=[[Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand]]|publisher=[[Ministry for Culture and Heritage]]|accessdate=15 September 2016|date=10 February 2015|archive-date=28 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828130409/http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/te-tau-ihu-tribes|url-status=live}}</ref> In the early 1600s, [[Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri]] displaced other [[te Tau Ihu Māori]], becoming the dominant tribe in the area until the early 1800s.<ref name="Walrond"/> Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by [[Te Rauparaha]] and his [[Ngāti Toa]], soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.

Today there are eight mutually recognised tribes of the northwestern region: [[Ngāti Kuia]], [[Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō]], [[Rangitāne]], [[Ngāti Toa]]rangatira, [[Ngāti Koata]], [[Ngāti Rārua]], [[Ngāti Tama]] and [[Te Atiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui]].<ref name="Walrond"/>