Moriori are the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands (Rekohu in Moriori, Wharekauri in Māori), east of the New Zealand archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. These people lived by a code of non-violence and passive resistance, which led to their near-extinction at the hands of Māori invaders. The term Moriori has also been used for hypothesised pre-Māori settlers of New Zealand, linguistically and genetically different from the Māori. This story, incorporated into Stephenson P… (More on Moriori)