Moriori

Moriori are the Indigenous people people of the Chatham Islands (''Rekohu'' in the Moriori language), east of the New Zealand archipelago. == Origin == The Moriori form an outlier, ethnically and culturally, to the Polynesians of the Pacific Ocean. Although speculation once suggested that they settled the Chatham Islands directly from the equatorial Polynesian islands, scholars now agree that ancestral Moriori migrated as Māori from the southern South Island of New Zealand about 1500 AD. 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. The Chatham Islands thus became the last outpost in the Pacific to be settled during the period of Polynesian discovery and colonization. == Adapting to harsh climate == The Chatham Islands have an environment colder and harsher than the one the original settlers had left behind, and they are barely capable of supporting a population. The Chathams proved unsuitable for the cultivation of most crops known to Polynesians, and the Moriori adopted a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Lacking resources of cultural significance such as greenstone and plentiful timber, they found outlets for their artistic impulses in making dendroglyphs. == Dispute resolution == As a small and precarious population, Moriori embraced a pacifist culture which rigidly avoided warfare, substituting it with ritual fighting and conciliation. == 1835 invasion from Taranaki == In 1835 some Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama people, Māori from the Taranaki region of the North Island of New Zealand, chartered a European ship, the ''Rodney'', and settled in the Chathams. They went on to slaughter and cannibalism the Moriori, slavery the survivors. The pacifist Moriori refused to fight; thus the incoming Māori, who regularly resolved conflict through military means, easily defeated them. The commonly-held notion that the Māori invaders completely wiped out the Moriori needs correction. Although Tommy Solomon, the last Moriori of unmixed ancestry, died in 1933, several thousand Moriori descendants remain alive today. == Revival of culture == 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. == The debunked myth of Moriori in New Zealand == New Zealand popular culture of the early twentieth century long held an unsubstantiated myth that the 'Moriori', a small-statured dark-skinned race of possible Melanesian origin, originally inhabited New Zealand before the fairer-skinned Māori arrived and drove the Moriori out to the Chathams. This story conveniently promoted racism stereotype and justified the idea of colonialism by cultural 'superiors', but has no historical or anthropological merit. ==Bibliography== The following book provides the only comprehensive and systematic account of Moriori. Its publication dispelled longstanding misrepresentations and untruths about Moriori which formerly circulated among the New Zealand population. *Michael King (2000). ''Moriori: A People Rediscovered'' (Revised Edition). Published by Viking. ISBN 0140103910. Original edition 1989. == External links == * [http://www.teara.govt.nz/newzealanders/maorinewzealanders/moriori/en Te Ara encyclopaedia on Moriori] *[http://www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz/reports/sichat/wai064/toc.asp Rekohu: A Report on Moriori and Ng?ti Mutunga Claims in the Chatham Islands] * [http://www.zeal.com/category/preview.jhtml?cid=10117053 About 20 profiled webpages relevant to Chatham Islands] * [http://www.crystalinks.com/newzealandcreation.html Detailed illustrated musical account of the Moriori] Maori New Zealand

Moriori

''Claims that the Moriori were 'wiped out' by Maori are untrue.'' :How does slaughtering, canabalising and enslaving a group does not count as wiping out? There is not one single full-blooded Moriori remaining as a consequence. :: I agree with you, up to a point. I do think the full-bloodedness (or the lack of it) argument is something of a red herring - where, for that matter, are the full blooded Angels, the full blooded Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, etc. that colonized England in ancient times? Even without enslavement and genocide, intermarriage would have taken its course, as happens when any two cultures live in proximity for any length of time. Having said that, I agree that what happened on the Chatham Islands ''was'' genocide. User:Davidcannon 12:00, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC) perhaps you meant full blooded ANGLES? User:Gringo300 08:42, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) == How many? == From what I know, the Chatham didn't support many people (with the technology available to the Moriori). Could you estimate how many Moriori lived there? Even roughly: hundreds? thousands? *The Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal estimates around 2000 before the invasion with that figure falling by 90% by 1870. User:Algri 03:35, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Categories == I've put this in the :Category:Maori, but it seems wrong there. Any suggestions? User:Grutness_^{User_talk:Grutness}_">User:Grutness|User:Grutness ^{User_talk:Grutness} 09:48, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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== Archive history == *First collection ==> User talk:Moriori/archive 1 ==Spell checking== Actually no, it was unintentional. I ran the whole page thru my spell checker. Feel free to put back the U.K. spelling. The policy is vague here, but seems to suggest being consistant within a page. The Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not US centric tho (or at least doesn't intend to be). User:Sam Spade 02:11, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC) ==Naming convention== Hi, I really like your new articles, but I have been moving some of them in keeping with Wikipedia:Naming conventions. When we developed these a while back, the idea was that the way we name all similar articles (such as people, places, etc.) would be standardized. If you have any questions, I will be happy to try to answer. User:Danny 22:47, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC) : Hey Danny. Ah gee. I know, I know, I know. Sometimes habits of a long career overcome the thought processes. Tks for fixing them. Cheers User:Moriori 23:13, Apr 13, 2004 (UTC) ==Editing experiments== I just deleted the editing experiment which you blanked. May I suggest that instead of blanking you better exchange such pages with - you might even retain the original nonsense text then. Then such marked pages cannot get lost as they are always traceable with the "WhatLinksHere" link of that MediaWiki page. User:Ahoerstemeier 09:47, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC) == Mark Todd == Hi. I don't understand the purpose for the article you created at Mark Todd, UK politician with no text other than the stub notice. I also noted that no other pages linked there. I couldn't see any use for that, so I deleted it. If this was inappropriate, let me know. Cheers, -- User:Infrogmation 02:27, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC) ==Re: eeeek!== Hi! Unfortunately, even through Im an administrator too, I face your same situation. I dont know how to create disambiguation pages. What I will do is paste your massege to Village pump; hopefully someone can give you directions there. Im looking forward to reading your article on Mark Todd the horse sportsman. Thank you, and God bless you! Sincerely yours, ''User:AntonioMartin'' :You don't need to add a note that says you're going to make the page. Just upload the text when you're done. User:Dysprosia 03:21, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC) == Maori == Kia ora, e hoa! Remarkable range of interests you have, as far as I can judge from a quick skim of your last 500 contributions. Anyway, the reason I've been doing less for the English WP in the last 5 weeks is here: the fledgling [http://mi.wikipedia.org/ Maori Wikipedia]. I would be delighted if you had a look (or another look, if you have already - I forget whether you've been recorded as contributing anything). You possibly know more Maori than the current 16 "members" put together. You could sign up and give us a "Karearea" page, linked from a list of birds linked from the [http://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C4%81rangi "Lists" page]. Or at least leave a greeting on the [http://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:K%C3%B6rero Korero page]. Please? Kind regards - User:Robin Patterson 03:39, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the half-anonymous note on my talk page. I think one can often write a language better than one can speak it. Maybe you can (1) have a browse among the [http://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges recent changes]; (2) email several Maori-speaking friends with a recommendation that they have a look too? Very best wishes - User:Robin Patterson 07:44, 14 May 2004 (UTC) == Thanks for the heads up == I'll keep a watch on him. User:RickKUser talk:RickK 22:30, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC) ==Current Sports Events== Hi. I notice that in your edit to Current Sports Events of 10:11 yesterday (8 Aug) the link to MSK Zilina got corrupted to "MSK Zilina". Was this deliberate, or do you use some unusual software that made this change automatically? There is a redirect from MSK Zilina anyway... Cheers! User:Arwel Parry 11:03, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) : ''(Posted to Arwel's page)'' -- Hi Arwell, you asked on my talk page whether it was deliberate that the link to MSK Zilina got corrupted to "MSK Zilina during my edit to Current Sports Events of 10:11 yesterday 8 Aug. No it was not deliberate, and I would never do that. I'm using IE6. Could that be the culprit? Cheers. User:Moriori 20:28, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC) ::Hi Moriori. No, I don't think it's IE6 that's causing the problem, because I use it too! There must be some strange setting somewhere that's causing this. Oddly enough, in your reply on my talk page it's happened again and it appears as "MSK Zilina got corrupted to "MSK Zilina " -- very strange, eh? -- User:Arwel Parry 20:45, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::: (''Posted to Arwel's page'') --: I am as flummoxed as you are Arwel. I'm not a compugeek, so I jave no idea what the prob may be. Cheers. User:Moriori 22:50, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC) == Vandalism == Please do not vandalize other users' pages with edits like [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:AntonioMartin&diff=5042562&oldid=5030440 this one]. Thanks, User:Acegikmo1 19:37, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) == News item: Zinedine Zidane == I removed this item because the article was not sufficiently updated for the event: the article contained no more information about the news event than did the item in the "In the news" template. The Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not ; items go in the "In the news" section as a pointer to an event worthy of an encyclopedia. If a person does not gain any new information about the current event than from what is on the front page, then it should not be there. Note, for instance, that each of the other items presently "In the news" each have more than three paragraph's worth of information that was added within the last two days. Each have a full paragraph or more of information immediately related to the current event and more than four paragraphs directly related to the event. - User:Centrx 23:23, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC) : I did not know that there was a ''current sports events'' page. - User:Centrx 02:32, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Arbitration concerning Rex071404== As you probably know, there's a pending Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rex071404 that asks for Rex to be blocked from editing John Kerry and related pages. Arbitration proceedings can take months. If you want to join several other editors in urging the Arbitration Committee to issue a temporary injunction, so that the Kerry article can be usefully edited sometime before the election, I'd love it if you'd go here to chime in with your support: * Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rex071404/Evidence#Request for immediate temporary injunction Thanks! User:JamesMLane 13:46, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC) FYI: User:JamesMLane is spending copious amounts of time trying to give me the boot from John Kerry. What he doesn't tell you is that he is also at fault himself for some of the revert problems which have occured there. User:Rex071404 04:32, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Style== Tena koe Moriori. I hope this is the right place to leave a message for you. Thanks for your style tip�actually, I have read through the Wikipedia guide but a few of the early ones I wrote did slip through before I read it. I've tried to retrieve the old ones and correct them but there's a chance I missed a few. Actually, quite a few of the others I've spotted don't comply and I've been going through to get them up to the Chicago standard. User:Stombs 13:10, Aug 15, 2004 (UTC) ==Talk:Marfa light== Talk:Marfa light I am sad to hear that this expert, Edson C. Hendricks, who did very good contributions in his short time on wikipedia, has left again. Some people are harder to handle than others. Some people have their expectations on wikipedia shattered on their first try, like this man here. We must not bite the newbies, and give good contributors lots of respect. I am certainly not blaming you, but I'm asking you to be more careful. User:Sverdrup 19:10, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) Moriori: Thank you for informing me about this discussion but please note that I am user EdH, not user edh, and I have no interest in this sad controversy. User:EdH 13:58, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC) ==Incipit== Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I will be starting a discussion on Talk:Incipit about those "verbose" words you've deleted twice. Thanks. User:Doops 02:56, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC) ==Template== Given your most recent edit to charles Darwin, perhaps you might want to look at Template talk:Infobox Biography User:Mintguy User talk: Mintguy 09:12, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC) Hi Moriori. Would you please "vote" on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Darwin#Vote:_Infobox_vs._Plain_image_and_text Charles Darwin talk page]? Netoholic is giving me a hard time because I made the mistake of calling it a vote when I was really tracking opinions. (If I misrepresented you as opposed to the infobox, I apologize BTW.) Cheers, User:Vfp15 02:58, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC) : Thanks. User:Vfp15 05:07, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC) ==Statue of David== Moriori, have a look at User talk:Arpingstone for your David statue reply - User:Arpingstone 10:59, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) :My reply to your reply is at User talk:Arpingstone as usual - User:Arpingstone 21:44, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) ::Got your reply, don't hesitate to ask me in the future whether I can see a pic you might upload - User:Arpingstone 21:55, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Singapore == Hi Moriori: I think there was something wrong with that quiz thing. There IS no such thing as "Singapore City". The city is the same as the country, the suburbs go right to the borders, the parks and so forth are embedded right into the city. There is no "city council" — there are town councils, but those are more like neighbourhood organizations than an actual level of government. There are also election districts, but those are for — you guessed it — elections. In other words, there ARE no administrative divisions in Singapore, at all. None. (Incidently Singaporeans seem to get really confused about the states and provinces and counties and so forth that other countries have...) It's just one unified continuous city-state, that's it. The capital of Singapore is itself; it's probably better to say that the term "capital" is meaningless when applied to Singapore. -- User_talk:Ran">User:Ran|ran User talk:Ran 05:08, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC) ==Sorry for reverting you on golf== ...more at talk:golf User:Kosebamse 20:54, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Re: National Anthems Vandalism == Thanks for adding the IP address to the vandalism page. Hopefully the note I added should stop casual changes--User:Enceladus 01:52, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Scott Dixon photo == Thanks for uploading :Image:Scott dixon.jpg. I've been tagging images without Wikipedia:Image copyright tags, and I came across this one. I'm a little confused as to its copyright status. What does IRL stand for? Does only Wikipedia have permission, or does anyone have permission to use the image? Thanks, User:Quadell – User:Quadell ^{(User_talk:Quadell) (User:Quadell/Request for assistance)} 22:54, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC) :IRL is Indy Racing League who hold copyright to the image. IRL gave us permission to use it (for non commercial use) but anyone picking it up and using it commercially would breach copyright. Don't know which of the tags we have these days would be appropriate. Will be interesting to see your choice. Cheers User:Moriori 23:07, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC) === Cycling History Deletion === Thanks for your message, I had a quick look at the speedy deletions page but didn't see ads as one of the criteris so I thought I had to go through the whole VFD procedure. I could well be wrong though. I think your right about the Keeley Bros as well, I've never heard of them and the article does seem to be more of a CV than anything really notable. Suggestions? User:Lisiate 23:58, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Maori chief translation == Thanks for removing the erroneous translation from the Maori chief picture I uploaded. "Greedy" was in the caption of the picture in the book, but you never know how much was "interpreted" by the English writers :) User:MikeX_(User_Talk:MikeX)">User:MikeX|—User:MikeX (User_Talk:MikeX) 00:05, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC) ==Bromeliads== Hi Moriori! I'm not the expert you think (smiles) but I've had a go and made a sort-of improvement. The sort-of solution was just to move the code for both pics down into the genera list so that the pics are totally below the taxobox. The problem then is a gap that appears in the genera list. I don�t know how to get rid of it. Secondly, the pics are not in alignment along their tops and I've no idea how to correct that either. At any rate, it looks better so maybe someone can improve it further. Best Wishes - User:Arpingstone 10:57, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Air NZ== Talk:Air New Zealand has been revived. A challenge for you (but you have more important things to do). User:Robin Patterson 00:08, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Clitoris== I've removed you comment (but not your vote) from the picture vote. Saying that people who disagree with your POV needs psychiatric help violates our no personal attack rules :-( User:Theresa knott User talk:Theresa knott 22:00, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I'm sorry you were offended by my actions. It was not my intention to upset you. The thing is, there have been a number of insults aimed at various people in the talk page of that article. Although you were not aimimg your remark at a specific person, it's still potentially insulting to everyone who voted yes on the poll. :If you look at the history, you'll see I reverted your edit because it broke another users signature. I had to copy and paste your vote back in. I could not in all good faith copy and paste in a comment that I felt would offend a number of different people. Had I not had to revert becasue of the sig, i probably wouldn't have deleted your comment, but instead asked you to remove it. I should have explained all this above. Reading my comments again this morining they do come across as acusatory.For that I apologise. User:Theresa knott User talk:Theresa knott 06:46, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Bob Charles (golfer) == Hello,
I'd like to inform you that removing cleanup tags is considered bad conduct. Feel free to head over to the talk page of the user who added it, and discuss it (ask for clarification what isn't neutral). But don't just remove it. Also, calling a cleanup up tag on said article silly can be considered uncivil by some. Please stay friendly and civil at all times. User:MacGyverMagic|^{User_talk:MacGyverMagic}">User:MacGyverMagic|User:MacGyverMagic|^{User talk:MacGyverMagic} 09:30, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC) == Taranaki /Mt Egmont == Hi there, please do a little more research before making changes. I did the last major rewrite of the section on the name of Mt Taranaki, and searched out the official status before doing so (the website of New Zealand Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) - although someone else put the inverted commas around 'official', I think. Also, IIRC, the reversion to Taranaki was in the early '90's, which hardly qualifies as 'years ago'. User:Dramatic 09:51, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "" template into their user page, but there are other options at Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace#Licensing Templates. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page: :Option 1 :I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below: : OR :Option 2 :I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below: : Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "" with "". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my User talk:Ram-Man. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- User:Ram-Man ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new comment]| User talk:Ram-Man ==Image Tags== Thanks for uploading :Image:.303_ammunition.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or if you claim Wikipedia:Fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, User:BrokenSegue 02:38, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Macedonians vs. Macedonian Slavs== Dear Moriori, at the moment there is a poll taking place on the Macedonian Slavs talk page to which you could make a significant contribution. Thank you in advance for your participation. User:Ivica83 13:52, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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I live in the Far North area of New Zealand. My nick comes from the fact I am descended from the Moriori people, as well as Maori.

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