When we talk about the historical account of what happened with the Moriori people, I think it is important that we acknowledge the role of false histories, of the stories we tell about each other. As other speakers have mentioned, both the 1916 and 1946 School Journal incorrectly stated that Moriori were the original inhabitants of New Zealand before being driven to the Chatham Islands. The inference in these School Journals was that the Moriori were somehow a racially inferior people. That history was both false and hurtful, and undermined the Moriori people. Its significance is such that I remember, myself, as a school student, believing that history of the Moriori people, because it had been handed down from generation to generation as the true history. It wasn't, actually, until I read Michael King's history of New Zealand that I realised quite how false and wrong that was. 