There are “Part Breed” Including some Maori genetics with various degrees of Maori ancestry.
Then there are also those who Identify as Maori, eg Willie Jackson, Marama Davidson, and Debbie two Dads, who incidentally until the addition of the Barcode did look certifiably Pakeha.
Now I am, and I identify as of Celtic origin, afaik all my ancestors came to the colony from various parts of Scotland.
There are hints there may be some Blood from northern France in one link never verified.
I have one identifiable trait that has become apparent in later life with Dupuytren’s syndrome causing claw like contraction in my left hand that I am informed only comes with a Celtic genetic link.
Is it ever to become policy, the links to health wealth and genetic outcomes will be rated by actual degrees of Maoriness and not the one size fits all who identify as Maori.
Should the wet dreams of the racists ever come to fruition and the Maori Parliament sits as a Senate style second Chamber will the citizenry be able to en mass, decide to identify as “Maori” to subvert the apartheid notions into irrelevance or will there become a desperate need to have a “Commission” to bequeath the degree of Maoriness in a direct biological sequence for all, a sort of “Nuremberg Law Committee” if you will.
No Minister 
Both sides of my family went across with William the C, no not that word, and we also have some French blood from 2 generations back.
He was known as William The Bastard (true too), and had “cunt” been in more common use back then it would have been appropriate (using my Kiwi male vernacular privilege). 🙂
Cunt is Old English for a crack or a slit in a rock face.
IIRC Samuel Pepys referred to a “cunny” in his diaries?
We should not get hung up on race, we are all mongrels of multi ethnic descent. This from a 50% Maori mate.
True. My attitude growing up and that of all my mates. I honestly can’t think of a single Gen-Xr I knew who was a racist in the classic sense. We’d inherited the whole 60’s Boomer thing of not seeing skin colour, plus what we thought were pretty good NZ attitudes towards race, especially Maori, before then.
But now it’s all changed: now not seeing skin colour is what’s racist. It’s also not enough to be tolerant, you actually have to be an “anti-racist” to combat racism – which basically means attacking other White people because they have White Privilege, the source of their racism. Which is also why our history reeks of racism an must be refuted and condemned, preferably in our daily struggle sessions.
All thanks to Lefty academics – mostly based in the USA, with a feed of French post-modernism – bleeding into activists and now an actual political party.
Dupuytren’s contracture, otherwise Viking’s disease.