Nunuku-whenua
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- 1505-00-00
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Nunuku-whenua was a sixteenth-century Moriori chief who is known for being a pacifist.
The Moriori, a Polynesian people, migrated to Rēkohu (Chatham Islands) from mainland New Zealand around the year 1500 AD. Their ancestors, the Wheteina and Rauru tribes of Hawaiki, intermarried with inhabitants already on the island known as the Hamata Tribe, who were descended from Rongomaiwhenua.
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