So it cannot be said enough that they were lies perpetuated by the Crown to continue the process of colonisation and that the Moriori were not pushed out from New Zealand, that they were the first people in Rēkohu, and that they were not conquered by anybody, that they held their mana and their practices of Nunuku's Law to be able to have a hope of their future according to their own values, and that meant not engaging in war; and the contrast to the Crown's action of imposing war and failing to offer the protections of the Crown that were supposedly one of the few benefits of colonisation really brings the harshness of this into focus. 