Nunuku's Covenant - A Moriori Message for Peace. As told by Maui Solomon 

vague racist nonsense. you should know better.

look it up bro, that's what they got.

Kia Ora I was interested by your comments. I am māori. I wanted to share a thought with you. The words Asian, Micronesian, Melanesian, Polynesian are all English terms and form a part of our pacific colonisation. Even the word Pacific is Spanish and its Eurocentric colonising effect is to erase the historical fact that we the people of Te Moananui a Kiwa are one family Nation of star navigated island peoples CONNECTED by the ocean. Te Moananui a Kiwa is our māori name for the Pacific. Our diverse families will have many names for this home ocean. Even the names Māori and Moriori are contentious. And sadly too much abuse has occurred in the telling of our stories of how we came to be. Māori and Moriori are traditional words from our respective historical traditions. They have come to be used as divisive terms by non-Māori and non-Moriori. Essentially speaking the discourse of “race” entered Te Moananui a Kiwa with the Europeans. Today “race” is abused as a term. To begin with my personal view is that there are many diverse cultures but there is only one species of human beings on this planet. Even the term “species” is itself a part of european taxonomy that categorises the world according to their worldview filters. Race - the term and its use - is racist. Species is itself a part of a racist taxonomy language. Decolonising these terms From our discourse helps us reveal the very close relational ties we members of the duality of the multiplicity in the unity of our Te Moananui a Kiwa diversity possess linguistically, culturally, socially and philosophically. That we differ in any way speaks to the co-evolutionary influences of our diverse environments we occupy here in Te Moananui. When we begin with the obvious we root ourselves back into our collective consciousness. Moriori and Māori are human beings - Ngā Tāngata Mauri Ora. It is not surprising that most indigenous cultures employ terms from their langue that translate very specifically to the obvious relational common denominator we share - which is our humanity:- Ainu people of Ainu Mosir (Hokkaido Japan) use the term Ainu which means Human beings. Māori is a term that means, normal, natural, native, indigenous, fresh (of water), belonging to Aotearoa/New Zealand, freely, without restraint, without ceremony, clear, intelligible, aboriginal inhabitant, indigenous person, native. Moriori and Māori as words, concepts and nouns share similarities in this manner. But Moriori itself is an identifying concept with specificity for the people who possess genealogical roots to that tribal history. It is specific to human beings of are koha island (The Chatham’s. The term Māori does not possess that specificity - only in so far as its contemporary use to qualify anyone from Aotearoa as being an indigenous human being from these islands. I am labelled as Māori. I practise my culture. I speak my language fluidly. But I am NOT encompassed in totality by that term. In my community I possess several tribal afffiliations to larger community locations and historical identities that form my great consciousness if We-dentity in society. I have Irish and English genealogy but do not practice those culturally in my personal dynamic other than when I speak and write the English language. Essentially my ceremonial and essential public life is culturally Māori and tribally diverse. But I practice no ceremonial culture that is English nor Irish. I walk in a world of duality and multiplicity, and unity, and diversity ... easily. As people’s of the pacific We share far more linguistically and culturally than we possess differences. Importantly - the term Māori was adopted by Europeans to lump our nation together under one easy to print term early in the first days of the printing press arriving in our lands. Prior to being labelled and categorised as one people via the convenient term “māori” we were identified by a diversity of family tribal and sub tribal groups. When we decolonise these terms of tribe, sub-tribe, race, micro, mela, poly ... we arrive back at our humanity as ocean people’s who are one community in linguistic origin. Decolonising these labels means we restore our relationship to each other and discover that our Māori and Moriori words derive source inspiration and migration histories and herstories to ALL the islands of Te Moananui a Kiwa. Arohanui

@@1Ma9iN8tive Amen I agree with you :-) One love one Ocean One People.

your west cousin like Indonesia and Malaysia used benua/banua. i dont think that moriori was mirconesian, they are maori from southern island.

They are the same people.

@@staceybloomfield3452 They were similar but different

Are you sorry for the crimes being committed NOW by the Maori? Don't say sorry for something you had nothing to do with and take responsibility for what is happening now. Murders, assaults, theft and abuse occur right now in NZ by Maori and NO One is standing up and saying sorry to all New Zealanders.

a very essential history to be shared: and essential to stand and be part of your history through to the present and future. clarifying beyond the lack of truth to move past ignorance and create a better present and. future

@@user-bx5sk9lm6snot just by Māori people, pakeha people kill others too.

Kia ora Liz, for a contemporary view contact the office directly and we can respond to questions. office@kopinga.co.nz otherwise read Michael King's book on Moriori: A People Rediscovered as a starting point. me rongo

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ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pPNx_a79ek0.html there is also an app! So cool - I am also starting to learn. I am Pakeha, but I want to support the language. I just think Nunuku's covenant and the tradition of peace is so incredible and awe inspiring. Me Rongo :)

i'm not sure what the problem is. yes polynesians arrived in nz from around 1250AD, and in rekohu from around 1500AD. they most likely went to rekohu from nz, it's possible there were also arrivals direct from eastern polynesia as per the histories. moriori and maori have the same ancestors, so they can have arrived both with maori AND later.

Maybe brought with the Maori as slaves or food? These were brutal times with savage peoples

Moriori first arrived 1000-1400 CE

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@@tarawaukeri8928 Yeah. Good luck eh. Politician crims. Royal Commission on NZ history Cover Ups. Cover Ups New Zealand. lol

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That is made up. The wall is believed to be naturally occurring

ys well done

19th century, Early 1800s

well that's stupid. they were the first people of rekohu.

Exactly

@@meganphillips9594 exactly what

nope

nope

What’s with the l?

@h1mb ancestors.

Yup the Maori ate them forced them off the mainland

You're all tiko boi. There tipuna were polys who simply settled on Rekohu. Their waka landed on Rekohu, just like Māori landed on Aotearoa, Samoans on Samoa, Kanaka Maoli on Hawaii

Wheres all this booty info coming from? Ur ass. Ngai Tahu, the navy and Ngāti Ruanui (who ever tf that is) had nothing to do with Moriori massacre. It was only Ngāti Tama and Mutunga from Taranaki who hijack the British ship and fled to Rekohu because the Māori iwi were chased out of there lands by other iwi. Rekohu was an easy place to make a new home considering Moriori followed nunukus law

@@hemiheke4920 i read an article from Maui that said a second waka came to Rekohu from mainland Aotearoa, 2 streams of settlement.