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The Moriori genocide was the mass murder, enslavement, and cannibalism [1] of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands, by members of the mainland Māori New Zealand iwi Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama from 1835 to 1863. The invaders murdered around 300 Moriori and enslaved the remaining population. [2]
The Moriori were hunter-gatherers [22] who lived on the Chatham Islands in isolation from the outside world until the arrival of HMS Chatham in 1791. They came to the Chathams from mainland New Zealand, which means they were descendants from the Polynesian settlers who had initially settled in New Zealand – the same Polynesians from which Māori had also descended.
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 ...
The story of Māui slowing the sun depicted on the maihi [arms] of the wharenui. The story of the creation of the first woman, Hineahuone, by her father Tāne Mahuta the god of the forest, represented in the doorway. Māui turning his brother-in-law, Irawaru, into a dog. The story of Paikea the whale rider.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., the internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 81. Giovanni was a prolific writer, activist, educator ...
Māori quickly adopted writing as a means of sharing ideas, and many of their oral stories and poems were converted to the written form. [64] Between February 1835 and January 1840, William Colenso printed 74,000 Māori-language booklets from his press at Paihia.
A report on proposed changes to U.S. dietary guidelines suggests encouraging Americans to eat more beans and lentils for protein and less red meat.
Meghan Trainor is sharing her cosmetic procedure regrets.. The singer, 30, admitted she’s had “too much Botox” to the point where she “cannot smile” while speaking on the Nov. 20 episode ...