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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 are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori). [3] Moriori are Polynesians who came from the New Zealand mainland around 1500 CE, [4] [5] which was close to the time of the shift from the archaic to the classic period of Polynesian Māori culture on the mainland.
The pacifist Moriori in the Chatham Islands similarly suffered massacre and subjugation at the hands of some Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama who had fled from the Taranaki region. At the same time, the Māori suffered high mortality rates from Eurasian infectious diseases, such as influenza , smallpox and measles , which killed an unknown number ...
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 ...
It told the story of a Māori boy growing up in a traditional pre-European settlement. [45] In 1949, a series of stories by author Brian Sutton-Smith caused controversy, featuring a "gang" of young boys who engaged in what was then considered anti-social behaviour (such as attempting to sneak into a movie theatre without paying for a ticket).
Hāpūpū was given to the New Zealand government in 1979 by Barker Bros (Brothers AND Sisters) Ltd. It is one of three national historic reserves in New Zealand. [3] The historic reserve designation reflects the particular importance of Hāpūpū culturally and spiritually for the Moriori of Rēkohu (the Chatham Islands).
The story of Māui slowing the sun depicted on the maihi [arms] of the wharenui. The story of the creation of the first woman, Hineahuone, by her father Tāne Mahuta the god of the forest, represented in the doorway. Māui turning his brother-in-law, Irawaru, into a dog. The story of Paikea the whale rider.
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