The document describes how the Maori people in New Zealand survived off the land by utilizing resources from the forest, rivers, sea, and through hunting. Some key ways they survived included cutting down trees to make houses, carving tools from wood, catching eels and whitebait from rivers and rocks, gathering shellfish from the sea, hunting birds with spears and darts, and using stones, bones, shells, and other materials to make tools and jewelry. The Maori had diverse ways of surviving in their environment.