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    landing from the Rodney The Moriori are the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori). Moriori are Polynesian settlers...
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  • Moriori, or ta rē Moriori ('the Moriori language'), is a Polynesian language most closely related to New Zealand Māori. It is spoken by the Moriori, the...
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    The Moriori genocide was the mass murder and enslavement of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands, by members of the...
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    The Chatham Islands (/ˈtʃætəm/ CHAT-əm) (Moriori: Rēkohu, lit. 'Misty Sun'; Māori: Wharekauri) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 800 km (430 nmi)...
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    warfare on the part of Moriori and responded. Ngāti Mutunga attacked and in the ensuing action massacred over 260 Moriori. A Moriori survivor recalled: "[The...
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  • Tangaroa (section Moriori)
    Takaa) are applied nowadays to the Christian God. In the mythology of the Moriori of the Chatham Islands, Tangaroa is a fish deity alongside Pou. Myths portal...
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    however, a small group of prominent anthropologists proposed that the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands represented a pre-Māori group of people from...
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    descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. Early contact between Māori and Europeans, starting in the 18th century...
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    Tommy Solomon (category Moriori people)
    19 March 1933) is believed by most to have been the last Moriori of unmixed ancestry. Moriori are the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands. Solomon...
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  • Cloud Atlas as a Moriori slave called Autua; his inaccurate casting caused controversy for perpetuating false stereotypes about Moriori people. He then...
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