Moriori genocide
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Port Hutt, where the invaders landed in late 1835 | |
| Location | Chatham Islands |
| Date | 1835–1860s |
| Target | Moriori |
Attack type | Genocide, invasion, enslavement |
| Deaths | 1,561 |
| Perpetrators | Members of Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga |
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The Moriori genocide was the mass murder, enslavement, and cannibalism of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands, by members of the mainland Māori New Zealand iwi Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama from 1835 to 1863. The invaders murdered around 300 Moriori and enslaved the remaining population. This, together with diseases brought by Europeans, caused the population to drop from 1,700 in 1835 to 100 in 1870. The last full-blood Moriori, Tommy Solomon, died in 1933. There remain just under a thousand people of mixed descent who identify as Moriori.