Cook Island People - Ethnicity

Ethnicity

Well over 90 per cent of Cook Islanders are either of full or partial descent of the native Polynesian people of the islands, who are known as Cook Islands Māori. Cook Islands Māori are ancestral to the Māori of New Zealand and to the native peoples of French Polynesia. Some Cook Islanders are also of other Polynesian, European (Papa'a), or Asian descent.