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Moriori
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The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands. They are Polynesians who came from the New Zealand mainland by at least about 1500 AD, and possibly around the mid-15th century. The settlers
Moriori family, c. 1910
Moriori family, c. 1910
Moriori designs carved into trees and rock
Moriori designs carved into trees and rock
Moriori tree carving or dendroglyph
Moriori tree carving or dendroglyph
Moriori people in the late 19th century: these three men (standing) are wearing a mix of traditional and European clothing. They carry defensive staff
Moriori people in the late 19th century: these three men (standing) are wearing a mix of traditional and European clothing. They carry defensive staffs and wear flax mats around the waist and shoulders, feathers on the front of the head, and albatross tufts in their beards.
Moriori genocide
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The Moriori genocide was the mass murder, enslavement, and cannibalisation of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands, by members of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama, two Mā
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…leader Nunuku-whenua. This culture made it easier for Taranaki Māori invaders to massacre them in the 1830s during the Musket Wars, and resulting in the Moriori genocide, in which the Moriori were either murdered or enslaved by members of the Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama iwi, killing or displacing nearly 95% of the…
Port Hutt, where the invaders landed in late 1835
Port Hutt, where the invaders landed in late 1835