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How did the genocide happen? slaughtering, enslavement, cannibalism, Or they killed around 10% of the population in a ritual that included staking out women and children on the beach and leaving them to die in great pain over several days. And they are forbidden to speak in their language. they murdered around 300 Moriori and enslaved the remaining population ,causing the population to drop from 1,700 in 1835 to only 100 in 1870.
THEJ.CA 11, New Zealand Moriori, Who Faced Genocide, Now Seeing A Renaissance, May 2022, Avi Kumar https://www.thej.ca/2022/05/11/new-zealand-moriori-who-faced-genocide-now-seeing-a-renaissance/#:~:text=Sadly%2C%20this%20'peaceful%20life',who%20resisted%20were%20promptly%20executed.
Wikipedia, Moriori genocide, 2 August 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_genocide#:~:text=In%201835%2C%20with%20the%20forced,group%20arrived%20in%20two%20waves.
Wikipedia, Moriori, 27 September 2023,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori
Wikipedia, Tommy Soloman, 1 September 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Solomon
The New York Times, Revival for a Native New Zealand Group Pushed Close to Cultural Death, Jan. 7, 2022, Pete McKenzie
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/world/australia/moriori-new-zealand.html
Atlas Obscura, Moriori carved dendroglyphs onto kopi trees, which can still be found on the Chatham Islands. This photograph dates from 1900. PUBLIC DOMAIN, NATASHA FROST
MARCH 6, 2018
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moriori-people-genocide-history-chatham-islands
Not very many survived and the surviving people were enslaved and not very many lived. Eventually in 1870 the government court awarded 97 percent of land on Chatham Island to one of the Maori tribes on the basis of its “conquering” of the Moriori. The last Moriori of unmixed ancestry, Tommy Solomon, died in 1933, though there remain just under a thousand people who identify as Moriori.
The last Moriori- Tommy Soloman
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