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The Māori ritually killed around 10% of the population. [9] Stakes were driven into some of the women, who were left to die in pain. [16] During the period of enslavement the Māori invaders forbade the speaking of the Moriori language. They forced Moriori to desecrate sacred sites by urinating and defecating on them. [9]
The Moriori were free from slavery by the end of the 1860s which gave them opportunities for self determination, but their small population led to a gradual dilution of their culture. Only a handful of men still understood the Moriori language and culture from before the invasion. The younger generation spoke Māori, while still identifying ...
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 many schools, children were punished for speaking their native language. Additional restrictions were placed on movement, marriage, employment, and the practice of traditional ceremonies and legal systems. [41] Some scholars have argued that these policies, collectively, were an act of cultural genocide. Others have argued that after 1945 ...
Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga massacred about 300 Moriori. They enslaved the rest, and destroyed their economy and traditional way of living. [4] Some Moriori, horrified by the desecration of their beliefs, died of despair. According to records made by elders, 1,561 Moriori died between 1835 and 1863, when they were released from slavery.
For example, in May 2017 and July 2018 the marae was the site of ceremonies of repatriation of Māori and Moriori remains – including toi moko – from several European and American institutions. [9] [10] [11] Rongomaraeroa is unique in its ability to serve as the location for such ceremonies as it is a "nationalised, pan-iwi marae". [12]
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]
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 ...