Māori Americans

{{Short description|Americans of Māori descent}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox ethnic group

| group = Māori Americans

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| population = <3,500New Zealand-born figures from the 2000 U.S. Census; maximum figure represents sum of "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander" and people of mixed race. United States Census Bureau (2003).{{cite web|url= https://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/stp-159/stp159-new_zealand.pdf |title=Census 2000 Foreign-Born Profiles (STP-159): Country of Birth: New Zealand }} {{small|(103 KB)}}. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau.

| popplace = Hawaii, Utah, California, Arizona and Nevada

| langs = English, Māori and Spanish

| rels = Christianity, Māori religion

| related = Pacific Islands Americans, Polynesians

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Māori Americans are Americans of Māori descent, an ethnic group from New Zealand.

Some Māori are Mormons and are drawn to Mormon regions of Hawaii and Utah, as well as in California, Arizona and Nevada.{{cite book |editor=Brian Russell Roberts |editor2=Michelle Ann Stephens | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XrbDgAAQBAJ&q=Maori+migration+in+the+USA&pg=PT289|title=Archipelagic American Studies|publisher=Duke University Press|date=2017| isbn = 9780822373209}} Māori were part of the first Mormon Polynesian colony of the US, which was founded in Utah in 1889.{{cite book |author=Brij V. Lal |author2=Kate Fortune | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5pPpJl8E5wC&q=Samoans+mormons+in+the+United+States&pg=PA116|title=The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia, Volumen 1|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|date=2000| isbn = 9780824822651}} Page 116.

Since at least 1895, many Māori have immigrated to the US to study at universities and to seek employment opportunities, in addition to doing so for religious reasons.