Editing Moriori Genocide

{{Act of Villainy|name=Moriori Genocide|Image=Moriori genocide.png|perpetrator=Taranaki tribes|date=1835-1863|location=Chatham Islands|motive=Lack of resources and land as well as being powerless.|crimes=[[Genocide]]<br>
Mass [[murder]]<br>
[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>
[[Enslavement]]<br>
[[Rape]]<br>
[[Torture]]<br>
[[Infanticide]]}}{{Quote|The Morioris were taken prisoners, the women and children were bound, and many of these, together with the men, were killed and eaten, so that the corpses lay scattered in the woods and over the plains. Those who were spared from death were herded like swine, and killed even from year to year.|Michael King}}

The '''Moriori Genocide''' was the genocide and enslavement of the indigenous Moriori people of the Chatham Islands by Māori invaders from the tribes of Taranaki. This led to hundreds being killed, while the rest of them were enslaved.

== History ==
After members of the Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama tribes were displaced from their homelands in Taranaki during the intertribal Musket Wars, they hijacked two European ships and headed off from Wellington to the Chatham Islands. Upon arriving there, they murdered a 12-year-old girl and displayed her flesh on posts. After the incident, the Māori invaders declared that the islands were now Māori and that the Moriori were now vassals. 

The Moriori debated on whether or not to fight back against the invaders, but they decided to remain pacifistic in accordance to a peaceful code known as Nunuku's Law, which prohibited violence. However, this only led to more individuals getting killed, cannibalized, and prohibited from marrying to have children. Those who were not killed were enslaved by the Māori invaders were enslaved, forbidden to speak their native language, and forced to abandon their sacred sites by urinating and defecating on them. Many women and children were staked on the beaches and were left there to die in great pain for several days. The introduction of European diseases also contributed to the Moriori's decline.

10% of the Moriori population was killed and only 100 remained by 1863.

== Legacy ==
In 1870, the New Zealand Government declared that since the Māori have conquered the Moriori population, the Māori were the ones who could have ownership of the Chatham Islands. Their native language has died out in 1898 and the last full-blooded individual, Tommy Solomon, died in 1933. Though the Moriori were regarded as extinct at this point, they were finally recognized as an indigenous people in the 1990's and they were granted rights to their lands in the Chatham Islands.
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