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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. [17] A total of 1,561 Moriori died between the invasion in 1835 and the release of Moriori from slavery by the British in 1863, and in 1862 only 101 Moriori remained.
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]
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.
Although the last Moriori of unmixed ancestry, Tommy Solomon, died in 1933, [48] there are several thousand mixed ancestry Moriori alive today. In the 2001 New Zealand census, 585 people identified as Moriori. The population increased to 942 in the 2006 census and declined to 738 in the 2013 census. [49]
A woman whose sons and ex-husband were murdered explains why she took her two younger boys camping at the same place their father and brothers were killed.
An influential New Zealand Maori leader will host on Saturday a meeting to discuss how to respond to government policies seen by many Indigenous groups as undermining their rights and status. The ...
They then shot down upon the Ngāti Tama in their pā, who fired back, killing Te Ahipaura, the eldest son of a leading kaumatua (elder) of Ngāti Mutunga. This strengthened Ngāti Mutunga's determination to drive out the Ngāti Tama. [14] Kekerewai were a Ngāti Mutunga hapu (clan) that was allied with the Ngāti Tama. Their leader Raumoa was ...
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 ...