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Works Cited

  • En.wikepedia.org/Wiki/Moriori_People
  • Https://infogra.am/themoriori_genocide
  • Pictures from google images

Graduation Expectations Met:

  • 1.1 Acquiring and applying knowledge and skills within and across the curriculum
  • 3.2 Recognizing and respecting the diversity and individuality of others

Eight Stages

Stage One: Classification

  • Classified as different than the Maori because of their cultures and customs from adaptation

Stage Two: Symbolization

  • Moriori vs Maori

Tribes Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Tama of

Taranaki

Stages Continued

Stage 3: Dehumanization

  • Maori killed and enslaved the

Moriori and ate them

  • Could not marry or have children with

each other ( Married either Maori men or Europeans, sometimes taken and never returned

Stages Continued

Stage 4: Organization

  • Understood the Nunuku's Laws
  • Planned the invasion while living in Port Nicolson

Stage 5: Polarization

  • Could not use their own language
  • Forced to defecate and urinate on their ancient holy sites

Stage 6: Preparation

  • Took control of a European Ship
  • Armed with guns, clubs, axes, 78 tons of seed potatoes
  • Had 900 Maori People in board

Stage 7: Extermination

  • Moriori outnumbered and also

continued to keep peace

  • Staking out women and children

killed men, children and women right when arriving

Example: while invading, killed a twelve year old girl: hung her flesh on posts

Stage 8: Denial

  • Not present in this genocide

"We took possession.. in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people... not one escaped"

- Maori conqueror

The Moriori People

  • Indigenous people of Chatham islands
  • Small Population: highest number of people being 2000
  • Lived by Law of Nunuku: non-violence, passive resistance, banning warfare, and cannibalism

After Math

What Caused This Genocide?

Chatham Islands

  • By 1896, only 101 out of the 2000 people were left (killed or infected with a European disease)
  • Moriori women could not could

reproduce with anyone but their masters, creating a decrease in the growth of the population

  • Last full blooded Moriori died in 1933, but rebuilding their culture
  • Language slowly reviving
  • Several thousand mixed ancestry Moriori alive today
  • The Maori people went after the Chatham islands
  • Searching for resources
  • Wanted to seize control knowing of the Moriori peoples' nature and peace

The Moriori Genocide

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