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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.
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.
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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 ...
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]
In a tradition of the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands, Rohe is the wife of the demi-god Māui. Beautiful Rohe was a sister of the sun, and her face shone. A quarrel arose after Rohe remarked that Māui's face was ugly. Māui then decided that they should change faces.
Print shows Maud Muller, John Greenleaf Whittier's heroine in the poem of the same name, leaning on her hay rake, gazing into the distance. Behind her, an ox cart, and in the distance, the village