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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]
This was the Moriori genocide, in which the Moriori were either murdered or enslaved by members of the Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama iwi, [17] killing or displacing nearly 95% of the Moriori population. The Moriori, however, were not extinct, and gained recognition as New Zealand's second indigenous people during the next century. Their ...
Moriori genocide: Chatham Islands, New Zealand 1835 1863 1,900 [343] [344] 1,900: 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 ...
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 ...
In the mid-2000s, attorneys won a pair of legal settlements for $37.5 million in the names of Armenian genocide victims. But families who stepped forward to collect on behalf of ancestors in one ...
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Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, only 7,000 were saved.
Some scholars have used different definitions of genocide [2] or have argued that colonist committed acts not captured by the UN convention which they variously describe as cultural genocide, [26] genocidal massacres, ethnocide or Indigenocide. [3] Scholars have argued that acts of genocide against Indigenous Australians included: Massacres.