What is Moriori?
1.
An extinct race of native people that used to live in New Zealand.
The cause of their extinction was the arrival of the Maori. As soon as the Maori landed in NZ, their ferocious appetite for native speicies wiped out firstly, the moas (peaceful 3 metre tall native flightless birds).
Then the kiwis (another native flightless bird) neared extinction until the dormant cannibalism of the Maori kicked in.
The Maori realsied that Moriori were a far better game than the small meatless kiwi, so the Maori hunted down the Moriori, fed upon thir internal and sexual organs to grow bigger, stronger and blacker.
The poor Moriori were forced to flee their homeland to a remote island of Chattam.
This day, the Moriori cease to exist, but only in myths they are spoken of.
Moriori were eaten by the smelly Maori
The Maori maoried the Moriori man's penis and cooked it in the hangi
Fish n Chips are now the repacement of Moriori for the Maori
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2.
The people who lived in NZ before maori however many acedemics can't decide if they did. They were peaceful and the maori weren't so they ran away to the Chatham Islands (according to some sources)where they eventually got wiped out by the white man
the moriori may or may not have existed but are part of the 'Great New Zealand Myth' so my dad believes in them
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