Other speakers have mentioned the School Journal history, which so wrongly articulated the history of the Moriori people, and, I think, for myself it wasn't until I read Michael King's history of New Zealand that I saw just how wrong and harmful that myth that Moriori were somehow an inferior race of people that had been driven out of New Zealand and away on to the Chatham Islands was. In fact, Moriori had lived in Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands, undisturbed for centuries until Pākehā came in 1791, and it was in 1835 that they were displaced by Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama, who came not in peace but in war and who enslaved large numbers of Moriori and wiped out about a sixth of the population. At that time, the Moriori stood strong in their culture, which was one of peace. They adhered to what they called Nunuku's Law, and they didn't fight back. While there is honour in that, obviously much damage was done, and in 1870 that wrong was compounded by the Native Land Court handing recognition of all of those lands away from the Moriori. 