first-ever Moriori Language Week is almost here!
"Moriori people, tchakat henu (tangata whenua) of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands, have much to celebrate with the first-ever Moriori language week kicking off this November."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575786/first-ever-moriori-language-week-a-long-time-coming
To the world, we say: “Yes, we are still here. We are Moriori. Hokomenetai me rongo — United together in peace.”
https://e-tangata.co.nz/history/restoring-a-piece-of-ourselves/
Remains of carved canoe may be most significant discovery of its kind, NZ archaeologist says
More than 450 artefacts from a waka found in pieces in the Chatham Islands expected to reveal new insights about Polynesian voyaging
#News #aotearoa #AotearoaNZ #NewZealand #Maori #Polynesia #Moriori #Archeology
Two Moriori karapuna [ancestors] returned to Aotearoa this week.
So far more than 500 ancestors have been repatriated, but work remains to bring home an estimated 150 who still remain in museums and institutions around the world.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542055/two-moriori-ancestors-returned-to-aotearoa
Is it just me or does this sound really fucking cool.
Helping to revitalise Moriori culture #Moriori #Aotearoa #Indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #Indigedon #Rēkohu #ChathamIslands
A Moriori musician, an ethnomusicologist and the Hokotehi Moriori Trust are part of a team helping to revitalise Moriori culture with 3D-printed replicas of traditional bone flutes from Rēkohu the Chatham Islands. Claire Concannon finds out more about the Moriori, music and manawa project.
So, European settlers and traders in NZ were apparently digging up and selling the skeletons of Moriori people as curios. The good thing is, in 2022, we figured out this was not A Good Thing(TM) and agreed we probably should give them back.
At last, these people are back in their home islands, with respect and dignity.
#Colonialism - It's helluva drug.
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