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Meaning of "moriori"
Moriori is a noun that may refer to an ethnic group, a language, or a specific cultural concept
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- A member of the indigenous Polynesian people of the Chatham Islands.
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Moriori castrated some male infants in order to control population growth.
A notable feature of Moriori culture was an emphasis on pacifism.
Moriori is considered a dialect of Maori.
I assure you that this Moriori had no choice.
Those Moriori that are not killed are enslaved.
They proceeded to massacre the Moriori and enslave the survivors.
They forced Moriori to desecrate their sacred sites by urinating and defecating on them.
They proceeded to enslave some Moriori and kill and cannibalise others.
During the following enslavement the Māori invaders forbade the speaking of the Moriori language.
The consequences for Moriori were devastating.
After exploring the area for water the crew again became fearful of Moriori aggression.
Ewing witnesses a Moriori slave being flogged by a Maori overseer.
The men intermarried with Moriori.
Moriori were the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands.
English and to a lesser extent Māori are spoken by Moriori today.
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Moriori are the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands.
The representative of Hokotehi Moriori Trust referred to the cigarette examples he had described before.
Moriori is an extinct Polynesian language most closely related to New Zealand Māori.
One exception was the Moriori of the Chatham Islands.
Many Moriori women had children by their Maori masters.
They enslaved, killed and ate the Moriori people.
A council of Moriori elders was convened at the settlement called Te Awapatiki.
Then the Maori staged a violent takeover of the islands, slaughtering or enslaving the remaining Moriori.
A hui or council of Moriori elders was convened at the settlement called Te Awapatiki.
However, linguistic research indicates instead that the ancestral Moriori were Māori wanderers from New Zealand.
A small number of Moriori women eventually married either Maori or European men.
These were advanced, warlike, agricultural tribes who destroyed the Moriori.
A small number of Moriori women eventually married either Māori or European men.
In the Chatham Islands, it is called kōpī, its name in the Moriori language.
They developed a distinct Moriori culture in the Chatham Islands as they adapted to local conditions.
Stowaway?! I assure you that this Moriori had no choice.
The Hokotehi Moriori Trust was saying the same things today.
That I have discovered in my … - Stow-away? I assure you that this Moriori had no choice.
The Moriori language was spoken by the people of the Chatham Islands near New Zealand.
He witnesses the whipping of a Moriori slave, Autua, who later stows away on the ship.
Moriori education resources including more information on momori rakau ( tree carvings ).
The island is called Tapuaenuku in Moriori and Māori, and was formerly called The Fort.
Moriori is an extinct Malayo-Polynesian language most closely related to New Zealand Māori.
The following are the Moriori names of the months: -.
Moriori - The impact of new arrivals.
And, of course, the Moriori were not wiped out.
The word Moriori derives from Proto-Polynesian * ma ( a ) qoli, which has the reconstructed meaning " true, real, genuine.
In 2001 work began on preserving the vocabulary and songs of the Moriori people.
Nunuku-whenua was a Moriori chief and famous sixteenth century pacifist.
The Moriori are a Polynesian people who settled in the then-uninhabited Chatham Islands around the year 1500.
He witnesses the whipping of a Moriori slave, Autua, who later stows away on Ewing 's ship.
Hokotehi Moriori Trust Seat of the accredited observer,.
The March and the Moriori people - an experience in the Chatham Islands.
In January 2005 the Moriori celebrated the opening of the new Kopinga Marae meeting house.
