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. [6][7] Oral tradition records migration to the Chathams in the 16th century. [8][9] The settlers' culture diverged from mainland ...

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.

Mar 6, 2018 · For hundreds of years, they lived a pacifist, hunter-gatherer existence—until, in 1835, members of two Māori tribes from mainland New Zealand arrived on the island, killed between a sixth and a...

In the 1990s, Moriori began to rebuild their culture and identity. As a result of their claim to the Waitangi Tribunal, the Moriori were recognised as the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands.

Aug 9, 2018 · There's a prevailing myth that is often brought up in conversations about our history - that Māori killed off Moriori in New Zealand. This is often repeated even by well known New Zealanders, so many Kiwis assume it's true.

Moriori, native inhabitants of the Chatham Islands of New Zealand. They are a Polynesian people whose language and culture are related to those of the Maori. Scholars place their migration to the Chatham Islands from New Zealand in the early 16th century.

The Moriori are the indigenous people of Rēkohu (Chatham Island) and Rangihaute (Pitt Island), the two largest islands in the Chatham group, 767 km south-east of mainland New Zealand.

We are Moriori, the indigenous peoples of Rēkohu and Rangihaute (Pitt Island), with our own unique language (70 percent of our surviving re Moriori differs from te reo Māori) history and traditions.

Although the Moriori are close relatives of the Māori, they have distinct features which indicate an independent colonisation from tropical Polynesia. These first settlers were said to be descended from Te Aomarama and Rongomaiwhenua (which is Moriori for Sky Father and Earth Mother).

Jan 7, 2022 · Many Moriori hope the government settlement will reinforce that renaissance and help affirm their Indigenous identity alongside Maori, who make up 17 percent of New Zealand’s five million...