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	Moriori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moriori are the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands (Rekohu in the Moriori language), east of the New Zealand archipelago.
		The Moriori form an outlier, ethnically and culturally, to the Polynesians of the Pacific Ocean.
		Evidence supporting this theory comes from the similarity of the Moriori language to the Māori dialect spoken by the Ngai Tahu tribe of the South Island, comparisons of the genealogies of Moriori ("hokopapa") and Māori ("whakapapa"), and prevailing wind patterns in the southern Pacific.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moriori (570 words)

	New Zealand - Maori - Creational Myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Moriori were a brilliant people, excelling in the use if resources to their benefit, although not exploiting these resources to the point of extinction.
		Moriori were to live in these cruel conditions with these Maori and under the watchful eye of the Europeans for the next 30 years until the Govt.
		Moriori had remained strong in spirit through most of these times but with the eventual taking of all of their ancestral lands by Pakeha and Maori and the stripping of their intense sacredness as a people, Moriori as with many other people groups around the world 'turned to the wall and died".
	www.crystalinks.com /newzealandcreation.html (1707 words)

	Moriori - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Chatham Islands thus became the last outpost in the Pacific to be settled during the period of Polynesian discovery and colonization.
		As a small and precarious population, Moriori embraced a pacifist culture which rigidly avoided warfare, substituting it with ritual fighting and conciliation.
		Recent years have seen a revival of interest in Moriori culture and identity, and some Moriori descendants have made claims against the New Zealand government through the Waitangi Tribunal, a court set up to compensate Māori people for land obtained by fraud or by force since 1840.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Moriori (600 words)

	Tommy Solomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although some dispute the claim, he is believed by most to be the last true Moriori.
		Tommy was born at Waikaripi in the Chatham Islands, on May 7, 1884 and raised on the Moriori Reserve at Manukau.
		His mother died in 1903 but because of his youthful irresponsibility the interest in her land was vested in his father during his lifetime.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/t/to/tommy_solomon.html (279 words)

	Governor-General of New Zealand - Speeches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Morioris offered to share the good things of Rekohu with the new arrivals but the result was not partnership but great slaughter and much bloodshed.
		Michael King emphasises the Morioris are Polynesians and the probable source of their immediate migration to the Chathams was New Zealand.
		Morioris still feel strongly about the events of 1835 and the subsequent decisions of the Land Court.
	www.gg.govt.nz /media/speeches.asp?type=archive&ID=206 (648 words)

	Moriori - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		Evidence supporting this theory is found in the similarity of the Moriori language to the Māori dialect spoken by the Ngai Tahu tribe of the South Island, comparisons of Moriori and Māori genealogies ("whakapapa"), and prevailing wind patterns in the southern Pacific.
		Moriori embraced a pacifist culture which rigidly avoided warfare, substituting it with ritual fighting and conciliation.
		Recent years have seen a revival of interest in Moriori culture and identity, and some Moriori descendants have made claims against the New Zealand government through the Waitangi Tribunal, a court empowered to compensate Māori people for land obtained by fraud or by force since 1840.
	www.indopedia.org /Moriori.html (452 words)

	Wikipedia: Moriori
		Although some say the Moriori were a Polynesian people who settled on the Chatham Islands via an independent migration from the equatorial Polynesian islands, many scholars now say Moriori were simply Maori from the lower South Island who migrated to the Chathams.
		The Moriori couldn't cultivate any plants they may've carried with their migration, and hencely had to live as hunter-gatherers.
		There are thousands of Moriori descendants alive today, and indeed, some of them have made claims through the Waitangi Tribunal.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/m/mo/moriori.html (212 words)

	Taiko History
		Archaeological examinations of Moriori midden material from the Waihora Mound 5 kilometres northwest of the Tuku, found that Taiko bones contributed to 53% and 49% of total bone mass in two middens.
		Moriori mutton-birding practices were described in detail by Skinner and Baucke (1928).
		Although large numbers of fledglings were collected annually for food by the Moriori (Skinner and Baucke 1928), and later by the Maori inhabitants of the Chathams, the species was still common by the time of European discovery.
	www.taiko.org.nz /Taikohistory.html (1559 words)

	Moriori - Michael King - Penguin Group (New Zealand) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He clearly identifies who they were and where they came from.
		He shows that far from being 'primitive', Moriori culture was a perfect adaptation to a harsh environment.
		And he reveals that Moriori people were not a race, and that they are far from extinct.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780140103915,00.html (246 words)

	A Moriori Lesson
		The Moriori probably migrated from New Zealand to the Chatham Islands around the 13th or 14th centuries.
		The Union Jack was planted in a ceremony that stole the Moriori land for King George III.
		King continues: "Morioris were taken prisoners, the women and children were bound, and many of these, together with the men, were killed and eaten, so that the corpses lay scattered in the woods and over the plains.
	www.davekopel.com /NRO/2003/Moriori-Lesson.htm (1119 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		Within days of their arrival the two tribes had killed 300 Morioris and enslaved the rest that were not able to escape.
		The plight of the Moriori people only got worse over time as hundreds more died from the bondage of slavery and vulnerability to European diseases.
		Today, the 700 local inhabitants, most of whom descend from Moriori, Maori, and Europeans are connected to a lucrative fishing industry that can change drastically from year to year due to overfishing and government regulation.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1999/sep/09-23-99/arts/arts1.html (519 words)

	July 01 Rural Bulletin - Moriori Compensation - Waitangi Tribunal Report
		A Waitangi Tribunal report on claims relating to the Chatham Islands has recommended Moriori people be compensated for slavery, loss of land and hardship.
		Moriori were entitled to at least 50% of the Chathams instead of the 3% they were awarded by the Native Land Court (the Tribunal said it was "patently wrong" to grant 97% of the land to Ngati Mutunga).
		The Tribunal concludes that Moriori were Maori, of the same Polynesian stock, but a unique tribe through the development of a distinctive culture as a result of their isolation.
	www.maf.govt.nz /mafnet/publications/ruralbulletin/rbjul01/rbjul01-09.htm (338 words)

	IPA in the News \| Ignoring Sins of the Father
		The tribunal found that the Moriori were entitled to at least 50 per cent of the land in the Chathams, and recommended that they also receive compensation for their sufferings from the New Zealand government.
		In fact, the Moriori had decided to try to accommodate the invaders, rather than to resist, although this in itself would have been interpreted as an indication of cowardice by the Maori.
		The surviving Moriori were forbidden to marry or to reproduce, which suggests a deliberate attempt to exterminate them as a people.
	www.ipa.org.au /files/news_476.html (940 words)

	Beehive.govt.nz - Opening of Kopinga Marae, Chatham Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Moriori ancestor, Nunuku, banned warfare, decreeing that disputes could be settled by duel but must end immediately when blood was drawn.
		We acknowledge today the Moriori ancestors, particularly those who lived in 1835 and whose names are carved upon the ancestral pou that sits inside the whare, and we acknowledge the legacy of peace for which they sacrificed so much.
		It captures the essence of what is known of the Moriori people, their carvings, their culture, and their connection to this special environment and its flora and fauna.
	www.beehive.govt.nz /ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=22018 (554 words)

	WAIS - World Affairs Report - The Maoris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1835, 900 Taranaki Maori living in the Wellington area and belonging to the Te Ati Awa tribe, captured a European vessel that had arrived from Sydney and obliged the captain to sail to the Chathams.
		The mainland Maori soon slaughtered around 300 of the Moriori, whose warrior abilities were slight.
		Interestingly, the Maori MP for the islands for many years was the Western Maori MP from the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island where most of the Maori on the Chathams originally came from.
	wais.stanford.edu /NewZealand/newzealand_maoris.html (367 words)

	Chatham Islands (New Zealand) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is the unofficial flag of the Chatham Islands (Wharekauri in Maori; Rekohu in the indigenous language, Moriori).
		Moriori land claims have risen to some prominence in recent times due to the fact that technically only Maori grievances can be aired under the (ironically) Treaty of Waitangi tribunal.
		The minority opinion is that the Moriori were simply a separate iwi (clan) of Maori.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/nz-chi.html (639 words)

	The Moriori - New Zealand in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is sometimes claimed that the Moriori were a race that settled in New Zealand previous to the arrival of ancestors of the Māori; however it appears that there is no evidence to support this belief.
		They largely ignored the Moriori "tapus" which were directed against killing on breeding grounds, and this European activity killed off one of the main sources of the Moriori diet.
		It was Solomon's grandfather, the chief of the Rauru tribe, who convinced the Moriori to remain pacifist during the invasion of their land.
	history-nz.org /moriori.html (682 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Kiti, born on Ruapuke Island in Foveaux Strait, was of Moriori, Pakeha and Maori descent; her Maori connections were to Ngati Mamoe and Ngati Hinetewai.
		Although aware of his half-brothers and -sisters, and that he was part Moriori, Joey did not meet many of his siblings, and was encouraged to consider himself Maori.
		The Moriori resurgence in the Chatham Islands in the 1990s aroused his interest, and the publication of Michael King’s book Moriori (1989), which included a photo of his mother, caused great excitement.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=5A21 (869 words)

	A visit to the Chatham Islands - An interview with Ken Laing
		The Moriori were the first inhabitants of the Chathams.
		For Ken, who is a keen amateur historian, part of the interest of the trip to the Islands was the opportunity to study again the history of the area.
		The group went to Waitangi, the main settlement on the island, stopping on the way at the Department of Conservation nursery where staff are trying to propagate plants of endangered species for replanting in the appropriate areas.
	nzine.co.nz /views/chathams.html?Rcat=Travel_N_Leisure&... (2680 words)

	Scoop: Fisheries Proposals For Chathams Theft - Moriori
		Hokotehi Moriori Trust is the body representing the interests of all people of Moriori descent in the commercial and customary fisheries of Rekohu and Rangiauria, as the Islands are known to Moriori.
		Moriori believed that Chathams Iwi were entitled to preferential access to the ownership of shares of CPL because it was substantially reliant on fishers based in Rekohu or on resources harvested exclusively inside the separate Rekohu zone by Rekohu fishers.
		Moriori could also not accept the Electoral College proposal, as it would mean that they could not participate directly in the appointment of Commissioners.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO0209/S00168.htm (1158 words)

	* NZine * Feathers Of Peace - Film Review - Chatham Islands, Moriori, Nunuku, New Zealand, New Zealand documentary, ...
		The film focuses on the contact of the Moriori with people from outside the Chathams - the visit of the brig Chatham in 1791, the impact of the sealers and European settlers, the Maori invasion in 1835, and the division of the land by the Crown court - the so-called 'justice' system.
		The commitment to peace by the Moriori taught by Nunuku long ago, and the significance of the feathers, are described by the Moriori man. "Killing is not our way".
		We hear of the meeting of leaders of the Moriori where the young advocate resistance but the elders persuade them not to abandon the teaching of Nunuku, and remind them that Nunuku has placed a curse on the people if they resort to violence.
	www.nzine.co.nz /reviews/feathers_peace.html (1048 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		He was acting for the Moriori elder Hirawanu Tapu, who - concerned for the survival of his people and culture - was arranging marriage partners for the remaining Moriori.
		She told the court that she and another Moriori woman, Ani Wi Hoeta, were the sole surviving relatives of Hirawana Tapu and his wife, Rohana (who had died in 1900 and 1902 respectively).
		Her marriage to a man of full Moriori descent was part of the struggle of the surviving Moriori elders to ensure the continuation of their people.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=3R23 (798 words)

	Moriori facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Moriori is sometimes classified as dialect of Maori.
		The Moriori of the Chatham Islands (in: Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol 3-4).
		A bibliography of publications on the New Zealand Maori and the Moriori of the Chatham Islands
	www.ling.su.se /pollinet/facts/mor.html (130 words)

	ComingAnarchy.com » Blog Archive » Jared Diamond on Warfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Groups of Maori began to walk through Moriori settlements, announcing that the Moriori were now their slaves, and killing those who objected.
		Over the course of the next few days, they killed hundreds of Moriori, cooked and ate many of the bodies, and enslaved all the others, killing most of them too over the next few years as it suited their whim.
		The Moriori were a small, isolated population of hunter-gatherers, equipped with only the simplest technology and weapons, entirely inexperienced at war, and lacking strong leadership or organization.
	www.cominganarchy.com /archives/2005/09/28/jared-diamond-on-warfare (858 words)

	Moriori - Moriori life - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
		Ancient Moriori on Rēkohu (Chatham Island) killed only the old male seals and left no carcasses on the rocks, as this would deter the seals from returning.
		Moriori were later described even by their Māori tormentors as a ‘very tapu [reverential] people’.
		Moriori adapted to their new environment, developing such innovations as the wash-through raft.
	www.teara.govt.nz /NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/Moriori/3/en (395 words)

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