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.

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...

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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.

Mar 6, 2025 · The boat is likely a “Moriori ancestral waka,” as Indigenous rights activist Maui Solomon, chair of the Moriori Imi Settlement Trust, tells the Guardian.

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The Moriori lived on Rēkohu (Chatham Island) and Rangihaute (Pitt Island) – two islands in the Chatham Islands group, about 700 kilometres south-east of Wellington. In Moriori tradition, their ancestors included people of the Wheteina and Rauru …

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.

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.