Well since the Maori never had a written language and likely spoke any number of dialects from settlement to settlement, this is all made up revisionist history. In other words, blame whitey, because we suck, bullcrap.
70k signatures is about how many people speak the Maori language.
I'm thinking it's mostly white leftists behind this and that most Maori probably don't give a hoot.
I suspect it's mostly white liberals signing it. Most Maoris are probably thinking "WTF?"