>>509908053Chat gpt:
That comment from 4chan contains significant historical inaccuracies and presents information in an inflammatory and misleading way. Here is a breakdown based on actual history:
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1. "They are not natives."
False.
The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand (Aotearoa). They arrived from eastern Polynesia (likely from the Cook Islands or Society Islands) around 1300 AD and settled the islands well before European contact in the 17th century. No other human populations were present in New Zealand before the Māori.
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2. "They killed and literally ate the real natives of NZ like 150 years before white people moved to the island."
False.
There were no "real natives" in New Zealand before the Māori. However, there is a persistent myth—popular in fringe internet communities and colonial apologist circles—that the Māori wiped out a mysterious earlier race called the "Moriori" in mainland New Zealand.
In fact, the Moriori were a Polynesian people closely related to the Māori, who settled the Chatham Islands (Rekohu) around the 1500s, after the Māori had already settled New Zealand.
The Moriori were not pre-Māori inhabitants of mainland New Zealand.
The idea of a more "peaceful" original race being destroyed by "violent Māori" was invented and promoted in the 19th and early 20th centuries to justify colonial dispossession of Māori land.
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3. "One of the first things the Māori did was steal a white ship and go to the island of the Moriori..."
Partially true in a twisted way.
This refers to a real event, but it is often misrepresented:
In 1835, two groups of Māori (Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama) from mainland New Zealand seized a European ship and used it to travel to the Chatham Islands, where the Moriori lived.
These Māori groups did invade and massacre many Moriori, enslaving the survivors.