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I noticed this website typically uses the name Maori (a not ā) to refer to the Indigenous people of NZ (and language/culture/etc) and was curious if there's a reason for this? Māori is definitely more correct, and there is a notable linguistic difference when a short vowel is used instead of a long vowel in Māori. E.g. papa and pāpā have very different meanings. If you were to write the latter without access to the macron character, it would be more correct to say paapaa.