Post #614268 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Nov 16, 2011 6:45 PM

Wow, fascinating information, on a well-done website! How great that so much of the Moriori history has survived, even after they were practically extinguished as a people. Certainly a dark spot in the Maori past. And certainly not the only one, but as pointed out above: Both, colonizers and natives had theirs. American indian tribes killed and scalped each other, too, that doesn't make the crimes of the colonizing Europeans any less grave.

And yeah, that "Ancient Celtic and Viking New Zealand" link smacks of the kind of revisionism that Neo-Nazis in Germany practice when claiming that the Holocaust never happened and no Jews were ever killed. And the way it is using cannibalism to demonize the Maori even today sure makes one cautious about that Savage Club emblem discussed elsewhere. That would play right into that guy's camp - but also denounce his ramblings even more as propaganda.