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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.
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]
Don Brash, formerly leader of the National Party and then of ACT, said in 2017 that Māori were preceded in New Zealand by the Moriori, whom they slaughtered. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] An earlier proponent of the racist theory of a pre-Polynesian European settlement of New Zealand was white supremacist and Holocaust denier Kerry Bolton .
There were only 101 Moriori people left out of 2000 who had survived in 1863. [338] 95% of the Moriori population was eradicated by the invasion from Taranaki, a group of people from the Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama iwi. [339] [340] All were enslaved and many were cannibalised. [341] The Moriori language is now extinct. [338] [342] Massacre ...
A notable feature of Moriori culture was an emphasis on pacifism. When a party of invading North Taranaki Māori arrived in 1835, few of the estimated Moriori population of 2,000 survived; they were killed outright and many were enslaved. [49]
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 ...
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The Moriori, a Polynesian people, migrated to the then-uninhabited Chatham Islands from mainland New Zealand around the year 1500. [1] Following a bloody conflict between the Rauru and Wheteina tribes, Nunuku-whenua, a prominent Moriori chief of the Hamata tribe, established "Nunuku's Law", which forbade war, cannibalism and murder.