What Was The First Stage Of The Moriori Genocide

Maddie Tedrow
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Period:8
Mrs.Moore
Moriori Genocide
Most people have never heard of the Moriori. They didn’t really cause many problems so not many people even know who or what happened to them. They were the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands. They were enslaved by the Maori and Taranaki Tribes. If they weren’t enslaved they were staked out to have a very painful death. The Moriori were treated very poorly and didn’t deserve what happened to them. “The moriori people were the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands. They settled in New Zealand in the 16th century. They started off as a small population(The Moriori Genocide). “The Moriori made themselves culturally different in the early 1500’s.” They didn’t move to the
Those same 8 stages occurred in this genocide. The first stage was classification. During this stage they were classified into different groups. They were separated into groups some by their cultures and others by their customs. These all varied due to the local conditions some of them had to adapt too. The second stage was Symbolization. “During this stage they were put into the different types they were.” Not all of the Moriori were the same some had different languages that they spoke. The third stage was dehumanization. During this stage the Taranaki tribes not only had killed some of the Moriori but they also enslaved them. Not only this but the Maori ate them as well. In this genocide they were dehumanized to the extreme. The fourth stage was organization. In this genocide the Taranaki Tribes had been planning on invading on some place sometime before they ever did. They choose the Moriori because they were on the Chatham Islands. The Chatham Islands had been in proximity. Not only this but the Moriori people followed the Nunuku’s Law. This law said they would not fight and that they would be peaceful. So for this it made them an easy target for the Taranaki Tribe and the Maori to invade them. The fifth stage was polarization. The Moriori people were not allowed to use their own language whatsoever. They were also forced to urinate and defecate on their ancient holy sites. The sixth
“This ritual consisted of them staking out women and children on the beach and would leave them there to have a long painful death”(The Moriori Genocide). Those who did not go through this ritual were enslaved instead. “After settling the conflict with the tribes in Chatham Islands they were able to live there for 600 years”(Genocide-What Happened?). By 1862 there were only 101 out of the 2,000 Moriori people who were left alive. There language is slowly starting to come back it is also being revised some as well. “In 1933 the last full-blooded Moriori died”(The Moriori Genocide). They made a statue of this man who was the last full-blooded Moriori. “There are several mixed ancestry of Moriori alive today”(The Moriori Genocide). Today many of the Moriori live on Rekohu and throughout New Zealand and all around the world( ). There is approximately 609 Moriori people living on the Chatham Islands today. There are many people who have some Moriori in them or are of Moriori