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The indigenous technology colonizers couldn’t conquer without, yet historians have forgotten

First given as gifts to arriving explorers, it didn’t take long for colonizers to demand hammocks as tribute. In A Nutshell Hammocks date back nearly 9,000 years in the Americas and were central to ...
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New intellectual property treaty does little to protect Māori traditional knowledge, say researchers

IPONZ can then decide to send the application to the Patents Māori Advisory Committee, which advises on whether an invention is derived from Māori traditional knowledge or from indigenous plants or ...