The Moriori Genocide
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” (Elie Wiesel)
What this quote is trying to show is that people should not forget the terrible times when the Jews lived in those horribles concentration camps. Although the concentration camps were terrible, that has happened in other parts of the world, in a similar manner as the Jews. The Moriori tribe was in a terrible situation of being almost killed by enemies and some other people living around the same place. (Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, n. pag.) The Moriori tribe were a peaceful people who were enslaved and almost obliterated from the Earth as a result of colonization and war.
It is known that the Moriori were a race that settled in New Zealand …show more content…
Some European explorers arrived there near these areas, and the Moriori were isolated until that time. Until that time, there were two races with different characteristics and they were: The Moriori and Maori. Although they are closely related to each other, they were very different in their cultures. They had distinct features indicating an independent colonisation from tropical Polynesia. Later, there was a war between the two tribes and that was a dangerous situation for most of the Moriori people. Nunuku, the tribal chief or leader of the Moriori was looking for ways to stop the fighting. He ordered there be no more war, so then he would take control of the situation and the people would not be decimated. “If a dispute took place, the custom was to cease immediately at the first drawing of blood.” (The Moriori Genocide, n. pag.) In this way, the Moriori became a totally peaceful people. In order to survive at that time, some of the main activities became very common, for example: bird hunting, seal and seafood, because they had no other options for food. Because of some Europeans who arrived in the territory …show more content…
For the Moriori tribe, living in the Chatham Islands was very complicated because those are isolated islands, and are on average colder and more exposed to the weather. This means that many crops that grow in New Zealand and the South Pacific were not able to be cultivated in the territories of the Moriori tribe because of those reasons the Moriori lived as hunters and gatherers, where food was almost entirely taken from the sea; this includes fish, seals, and seabirds. Due to the size of the Chatham Islands, they supported only a small population of about 2000
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” (Elie Wiesel)
What this quote is trying to show is that people should not forget the terrible times when the Jews lived in those horribles concentration camps. Although the concentration camps were terrible, that has happened in other parts of the world, in a similar manner as the Jews. The Moriori tribe was in a terrible situation of being almost killed by enemies and some other people living around the same place. (Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, n. pag.) The Moriori tribe were a peaceful people who were enslaved and almost obliterated from the Earth as a result of colonization and war.
It is known that the Moriori were a race that settled in New Zealand …show more content…
Some European explorers arrived there near these areas, and the Moriori were isolated until that time. Until that time, there were two races with different characteristics and they were: The Moriori and Maori. Although they are closely related to each other, they were very different in their cultures. They had distinct features indicating an independent colonisation from tropical Polynesia. Later, there was a war between the two tribes and that was a dangerous situation for most of the Moriori people. Nunuku, the tribal chief or leader of the Moriori was looking for ways to stop the fighting. He ordered there be no more war, so then he would take control of the situation and the people would not be decimated. “If a dispute took place, the custom was to cease immediately at the first drawing of blood.” (The Moriori Genocide, n. pag.) In this way, the Moriori became a totally peaceful people. In order to survive at that time, some of the main activities became very common, for example: bird hunting, seal and seafood, because they had no other options for food. Because of some Europeans who arrived in the territory …show more content…
For the Moriori tribe, living in the Chatham Islands was very complicated because those are isolated islands, and are on average colder and more exposed to the weather. This means that many crops that grow in New Zealand and the South Pacific were not able to be cultivated in the territories of the Moriori tribe because of those reasons the Moriori lived as hunters and gatherers, where food was almost entirely taken from the sea; this includes fish, seals, and seabirds. Due to the size of the Chatham Islands, they supported only a small population of about 2000