Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson
Not just me, actual fact and history too. The whole Moriori as pre-Maori settlers thing is a post-colonial invention that was used to justify colonization itself. It has been completely and utterly discredited. That it is still being repeated today tells me that the NZ education system clearly can't be all that great.
Dunno bro, where is the definitive truth/fact/account of events then?

I'm no expert and I am indifferent either way, but that's what I've read (over and over again)... Yep, even our Maori teacher in school told us the Maori ate the Moriori into extinction..

I remember him telling us "We ate the eyes of defeated tribes, to gain greater vision"

"We ate the brains of defeated chiefs to gain wisdom" etc, etc..

Why would he lie to paint such a grim picture of his ancestors?

I'm open to new knowledge/information though, could you link to your source that disproves that Moriori pre-dated the Maori - and were not hunted and killed to the brink of extinction?