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The Māori ritually killed around 10% of the population. [9] Stakes were driven into some of the women, who were left to die in pain. [16] During the period of enslavement the Māori invaders forbade the speaking of the Moriori language. They forced Moriori to desecrate sacred sites by urinating and defecating on them. [9]
The Moriori were free from slavery by the end of the 1860s which gave them opportunities for self determination, but their small population led to a gradual dilution of their culture. Only a handful of men still understood the Moriori language and culture from before the invasion. The younger generation spoke Māori, while still identifying ...
The genocide of the Moriori began in 1836. The invasion of the Chatham Islands by New Zealand Maori left the Moriori people and their culture to die off. Those who survived were kept as slaves and were not sanctioned to marry other Moriori or have children within their race. This caused their people and their language to be endangered.
300 Moriori deaths, 1700 Moriori enslaved The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands ) among Māori between 1806 and 1845, [ 1 ] after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertribal arms race in order to gain territory or seek revenge for ...
A notable feature of Moriori culture was an emphasis on pacifism. When a party of invading North Taranaki Māori arrived in 1835, few of the estimated Moriori population of 2,000 survived; they were killed outright and many were enslaved. [49]
In 2021 an app called Ta Rē Moriori was launched to teach the Moriori language to as many new people as possible. [16] In 2023, there was a petition for the establishment of a Moriori Language Week. [20] [21] In 2024, author Kate Preece published a trilingual children's book: Ten Nosey Weka, featuring words in English, Māori and Moriori. [22]
As the Kāi Tahu are a South Island Māori tribe rather than Moriori, Solomon's children were considered of mixed descent. Modern scholars, however, reject the concept of a phylogenetically much distinct Moriori, and instead consider them a culturally distinct offshoot of an early (pre-Kāi Tahu) South Island Māori group, as evidenced by similarities between the Moriori language and the k ...
For example, in May 2017 and July 2018 the marae was the site of ceremonies of repatriation of Māori and Moriori remains – including toi moko – from several European and American institutions. [9] [10] [11] Rongomaraeroa is unique in its ability to serve as the location for such ceremonies as it is a "nationalised, pan-iwi marae". [12]