Waitaha By sussy_sophia69 Period: 1000 to 1000 first inhabitans the first people to live in the place now known as Christchurch were Moa hunters, who probably arrived early there as AD 1000 Period: 1500 to 1700 movement to the south island/ Te Waipounamu North island Maori (Ngati Mamoe and later Ngai Tahu) arrived in