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Moriori were forbidden to marry Moriori or Māori or to have children. This was different from the customary form of slavery practised on mainland New Zealand. [13] A total of 1,561 Moriori died between the invasion in 1835 and the release of Moriori from slavery in 1863, and in 1862 only 101 Moriori remained.
Once Were Warriors is a 1994 New Zealand tragic drama film based on New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling 1990 first novel. [4] The film tells the story of the Heke family, an urban Māori whānau living in South Auckland, and their problems with poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence, mostly brought on by the patriarch, Jake.
The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori). [3] Moriori are Polynesians who came from the New Zealand mainland around 1500 CE, [4] [5] which was close to the time of the shift from the archaic to the classic period of Polynesian Māori culture on the mainland.
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 ...
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The Dead Lands is a 2014 New Zealand action film directed by Toa Fraser.It was number 1 at the New Zealand box office when it was released. [2] It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival [3] where it had its world premier on 4 September 2014. [4]
Sam Neill was originally favoured by Vincent Ward to be cast in a leading role, but he declined.. Director Vincent Ward was dismissed from the film towards the end of the shoot to be replaced by cinematographer Alun Bollinger and then in an unusual reversal, was rehired just weeks later for six months of editing and additional shooting in both New Zealand and England.
As a young girl Paraiti (Te Ahurei Rakuraku), witnesses the brutal killing of her family by European settlers in a conflict that leaves a permanent scar on her cheek. [10] Many years later, Paraiti ( Whirimako Black ), lives a semi-nomadic existence in the rural Te Urewera region of New Zealand, and is working underground as a medicine woman ...