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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]
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.
Torotoro was a Moriori resident of Kaingaroa on north-east Chatham Island who was killed in a skirmish with Lieutenant Broughton's men of HMS Chatham (for which the Chatham Islands were subsequently named) over a dispute concerning his fishing gear on 29 November 1791. [1] A memorial to Torotoro is above the beach at Kaingaroa.
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 ...
Harvey was born in Christchurch.She has both Moriori and Māori heritage, and belongs to the Māori iwi (tribes) of Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri, Te Ātiawa ki Te Tauihu, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, and Kāti Māmoe.
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Put another way, there is a developmental line firmly joining the English in 1750 with the English in 2024: there is no such connection (or a very weak one) between the Moriori of 1750 and the Moriori of 2024 - the chord was cut in the 19th century and cannot be glued back together because one part of the chord is missing.