Moriori remained undisturbed on the Chatham Islands until 1791. You lived such a peaceful, non-violent life. Your way of life was turned upside down, and, by the 1830s, we heard of how many had been killed and how many had been enslaved. For me to read about how in the 1840s you wrote letters, you submitted petitions, asking for the Government to stop the enslavement, to award you back your land, and it was all ignored—when hundreds of your people have been killed and enslaved and you are being ignored, I commend you for spending this amount of time to push so hard for the recognition that you do deserve. Even after the Chatham Islands / Rēkohu became a part of New Zealand Aotearoa in 1842, you were still enslaved, you were still ignored, and in the 1870s, when you did get some redress, it really just wasn't good enough. The outcomes of that redress were not good enough. Most of your land had been lost, the numbers of Moriori had deteriorated, and many had left the Chatham Islands. By the early 1900s, it shows that it was just an untenable place to be and an untenable situation to be in. You were losing your historical references, you were losing the language, and you were losing your people.