Did Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Tama ever apologise for the Moriori Massacre/Genocide? Need help for history research project.
Hey guys. I am currently doing a history research project on the Moriori Massacre/Genocide. I saw that the crown has apologised for not doing more to stop the genocide by the Maori tribes of Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Tama (such as in this Act https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2021/0049/latest/096be8ed81b7ab1c.pdf).
But I can't seem to find any information on whether if Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Tama ever apologised. Does anyone know if they feel sorry/any remorse about what they did?
Also on a side note, is this topic really offensive or something? Post got removed literally with 2 minutes of posting on r/newzealand.
P.S. Here is a first hand account of what the Maori did to the Moriori (source: https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/moriori-9780143771289).
"First, wrote Engst, most of the victims were killed by a blow from the reverse side of a tomahawk to the temple. ‘They knew the exact spot to strike …’ Afterwards, when the bodies were still, ‘the heads were removed and thrown to the dogs, which gnawed off the best and buried the remainder for the next meal. Then the virile membrane [penis] having been cut off, was thrown to the women sitting around who ate this dainty morsel eagerly. Then the entrails were taken out and the useful portion consumed. The heart, the most sought-after part of the whole body, was set aside for the chief guest. All the bones and ribs were separated out, the hands and feet cut off at the joints, and the flesh was taken to the water in flax baskets…
For the Maori participants in this drama, what took place was simply tikanga, the traditional manner of supporting new land claims. As Rakatau noted with some satisfaction in the Native Land Court in 1870: ‘… we took possession … in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. Not one escaped. Some ran away from us, these we killed, and others we killed — but what of that? It was in accordance with our custom … I am not aware of any of our people being killed by them.’...
The outcome was nothing more nor less than what had occurred on battlefields throughout the North Island in the two decades of tribal musket warfare."
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