Moriori
Waking a sleeping language – our plan to revive the speaking of ta rē Moriori
Analysis - When is a language extinct and when is it merely dormant? Can we revive a threatened language and what would that look like, John Middleton asks.
Helping to revitalise Moriori culture
A Moriori musician, an ethnomusicologist and the Hokotehi Moriori Trust are part of a team helping to revitalise Moriori culture with 3D-printed replicas of traditional bone flutes from Rēkohu the… Audio
Kiwa Hammond: reviving Moriori culture
This month Kiwa Hammond has been part of an Aotearoa contingent in Germany to retrieve skeletal remains of karapuna, Ta Imi Moriori ancestors of Rekohu (the Chatham Islands) and Maori tipuna from… Audio
Should museums return culturally significant items?
European museums are stacked with cultural treasures taken from their former colonies. New thinking could change that. Audio
The story every New Zealander needs to know: Moriori history
As a country, we should be giving far more consideration to the importance of Moriori language, culture and history, says Dr Grant Morris. Audio
The treaty settlement that blows up the Moriori myth
This month's Treaty settlement with Moriori does more than right wrongs - it sets the official record straight. Audio
2: Tangata Whenua
Around 850 years ago Polynesian explorers found an empty land and the story of people in Aotearoa began. A new culture emerged; tangata whenua had arrived and started to thrive. Audio
The Moriori – in their own words
Maui Solomon, chairman of the Hokotehi Moriori Trust, was listening to yesterday's interview in a marae in the Chatham Islands. He asked to come on the show and tells us about being Moriori and what… Audio
Debunking the myth about the Moriori
There's a prevailing myth that is often brought up in conversations about our history - that Māori killed off Moriori in New Zealand. This is often repeated even by well known New Zealanders, so many… Audio
Māori ancestral remains return home
Unknown remains of seventeen Māori and Moriori ancestors have returned to Aotearoa after more than a century in museums in Germany and the United States. Video, Audio
Tipuna welcomed home
Over a hundred Maori and Moriori ancestral remains will be formally welcomed home at Te Papa in just over an hour's time more than a century after they left New Zealand. Audio
Repatriation of ancestral remains in NZ history announced
The largest collection of Māori and Moriori ancestral remains to be returned to New Zealand has been handed over to a Te Papa delegation in New York overnight. Audio
One of the largest repatriation of Maori remains to occur
A museum in New York is returning more than 100 Maori and Morori ancestral remains in the largest such repatriation in New Zealand's history. The remains from the American Museum of Natural History… Audio
Where the Rēkohu bone sings
Writing her first novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings was a means of Tina Makereti understanding her daughters Moriori identity and in the telling of the story giving voice to the relationship between… Audio
Tina Makereti
Writer Tina Makereti grew up knowing she had a Moriori ancestor, and that got her wondering what it means to be Moriori today. She's poured her research and her thoughts into her novel, Where the… Audio
Trees carved by Moriori may soon die
An Otago university archaeologist says too little is being done to save unique Moriori tree carvings on the Chatham Islands. Audio
Maori and Moriori remains returned to NZ
Te Papa Tongarewa's Kaihautu, Michelle Hippolite, speaks about the return of Maori and Moriori remains from Australia which were gifted to museums in Sydney and Perth between 1899 and 1932. Audio
Laser Scans of Moriori Dendroglyphs
Detailed 3D digital laser scans are preserving information about Moriori tree carvings on the Chatham Islands Audio
Moriori Cultural Revival
The Government's injected $6 million into kick-starting a cultural revival of the Chatham Islands' Moriori. Audio
