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Te Papa welcomes Māori and Moriori remains

Edit Scoop 30 May 2016
Media release. Te Papa welcomes Māori and Moriori remains from Smithsonian Institution and UK museums ... ....

Smithsonian returns Maori remains to New Zealand

Edit CNN 28 May 2016
(CNN)The Smithsonian Institution has returned the remains of 54 indigenous people, including four mummified Maori heads, to a New Zealand museum ... A total of 60 Maori and Moriori individuals' remains held in private and public collections in the United States and the United Kingdom were repatriated. Read More ... "We are delighted that we could work closely with Te Papa on the return of these Māori and Moriori individuals to New Zealand." ... ....

New Zealand Police help to return Māori and Moriori ancestral remains (New Zealand Police)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
(Source. New Zealand Police). The ancestral remains of 60 Māori and Moriori individuals have today been returned to New Zealand in a special ceremony involving New Zealand Police staff ... Washington DC's Smithsonian Institution has returned at least 54 individuals, including four Toi Moko (Mummified Māori Heads) ... Original documenthttp.//www.police.govt.nz/news/featured/new-zealand-police-help-return-māori-and-moriori-ancestral-remains....

US returns remains of 54 indigenous people to New Zealand

Edit The Guardian 27 May 2016
Māori elders welcome major repatriation of remains, including four mummified heads, saying. ‘They are finally coming home’. @EleanorAingeRoy ... Following five years of negotiations, the Smithsonian Institution in the US agreed to return the objects, made up of the remains of at least 54 Māori and Moriori individuals ... Twitter ... “Today one of the people being returned was one of my own ancestors,” he said. “It is really a joyful occasion ... ....

Police Involved in Repatriation of Maori and Moriori Ancestral Remains (New Zealand Police)

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2016
(Source. New Zealand Police) ... The remains of sixty Māori and Moriori individuals, returning from overseas museums and private collections, will be welcomed onto the Rongomaraeroa Marae at 1pm ... Separate US and UK institutions are also returning a further six individuals ... ENDS. Issued by Police Media Centre ... Original documenthttp.//www.police.govt.nz/news/release/police-involved-repatriation-maori-and-moriori-ancestral-remains ... (noodl....

Te Papa to welcome Māori and Moriori remains

Edit Scoop 23 May 2016
The remains of sixty Māori and Moriori individuals, returning from museums and private collections, will be welcomed onto Te Papa's marae at 1pmon Friday 27 May ... ....

How should the Ancient One's story end?

Edit Denver Post 15 May 2016
A plastic casting, left, of a controversial 9,200-year-old skull from the bones known as Kennewick Man is shown in this July 24, 1997, file photo in Richland, Wash ... Based on the shape of his skull and skeletal structure, they deduced his closest living relatives are the Moriori, who live on an archipelago 420 miles southeast of New Zealand, and the Ainu of Japan ... ....

Maori skulls to be repatriated

Edit BBC News 12 May 2016
The remains of 60 Maori and Moriori will be returned to New Zealand after more than 100 years ... ....

60 Maori and Moriori heads and skulls repatriated from UK and US

Edit NZ Herald 12 May 2016
Maori heads and skulls, which have been held in museums and private collections overseas for more than a century, are finally coming back to New Zealand.The remains of 60 Maori and Moriori, including a 7-year-old child's skull,... ....

Kennewick Man Linked To Native Americans, DNA Results Confirm — Tribe Plans To Rebury Ancestor

Edit The Inquisitr 19 Jun 2015
“We’re enjoying this moment,” James Boyd, governing board of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation told The New York Times “The findings were what we thought all along.” ... Luckily, researchers were also just given their sample — a hand bone ... Kennewick Man mystery solved ... In past studies, scientists thought his bones resembled remains from the Ainu of Japan and the Moriori of Polynesia ... ....

A cruise to New Zealand's far-flung islands: where the albatross is king

Edit The Daily Telegraph 01 Jan 2015
Mike Unwin marvels at the rare wildlife on a voyage to a remote group of New Zealand islands, forbidding and uninhabited outposts where the albatross is king. Wandering albatross in calm seas off Kaikoura, South Island Photo. Alamy. By Mike Unwin. 8.00AM GMT 01 Jan 2015. Comments ...  . Telegraph Cruise Show 05 Dec 2014 ... in the 1830s, the original Moriori inhabitants were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Maoris from the mainland ... ....

Idyllic qualities in the eye of beholder

Edit Otago Daily Times 29 Dec 2014
Anyone with half a brain will tell you the Ida Valley is idyllic. ''Are you going away this Christmas?'' the half-brained will ask solicitously. ''Yes, to the Ida Valley,'' I will reply. ''Oh you are so lucky,'' they will say. ''I hear it's IDYLLIC!''. Idyllic is in the eyes of the beholder ... Fun ... I don't mind missing out on really important information that could affect my life dramatically just because we are living like the Moriori ... ....

Excellence in Maori literature celebrated (Massey University)

Edit noodls 11 Dec 2014
(Source. Massey University). Winners in five categories of Massey University's Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards were celebrated at a ceremony in Wellington last night ... She also reflected on her writing background and the moment at which she realised, "I have a voice, I can tell my own story" ... Her debut novel, Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (Random House), explores the complexities of Pākehā, Māori and Moriori cross-cultural history....
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