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They launched a pre-emptive attack on Moriori in their homes as soon as they had returned from the council. [14] Around 300 Moriori were killed, [15] with hundreds more enslaved. [8] 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]
In February 2020, the New Zealand government signed a treaty with tribal leaders, giving them rights enshrined in law and the Moriori people at large an apology for the past actions of Māori and European settlers. The Crown returned stolen remains of those killed in the genocide, and gifted NZ$18 million in reparations.
The Moriori genocide was the systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, enslavement and cultural annihilation of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu), by invaders from the mainland New Zealand iwi of Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga, from November 1835 for a disputed time onward. Siege of Pukerangiora [20]
A war party of Ngāti Mutunga went after the Ngāti Tama and ambushed Pehitaka, who was out shooting birds. He was the younger brother of Ngāti Tama leader Wiremu Kingi Meremere. Tangari Te Umu of Ngāti Mutunga killed Pehitaka with a tomahawk. His death was regarded as sufficient revenge for Te Ahipaura being shot earlier. [18] [19]
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 ...
Production has begun on “Tangata Pai,” a Warner Bros. Discovery-backed drama that claims to be the first primetime series in which 30% of the dialog will be in the Maori language. The eight ...
Historian Michael King said that "for hundreds of thousands of New Zealand children, the version of Moriori history carried in the School Journal and other publications which drew from that source, reinforced over 60-odd years by primary school teachers, was the one that lodged in the national imagination". [36]
A Florida attorney found himself on the wrong side of the justice system after he allegedly smashed a dinner plate on a man’s head during a wedding reception.