{"id":14408,"date":"2020-02-14T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T05:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/after-more-than-150-years-new-zealand-recognises-extinct-moriori-people"},"modified":"2020-02-14T14:15:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T05:15:19","slug":"after-more-than-150-years-new-zealand-recognises-extinct-moriori-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14408","title":{"rendered":"After more than 150 years, New Zealand recognises &#8216;extinct&#8217; Moriori people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polynesian settlers of the Chatham Islands sign treaty to have their status, existence and rights enshrined in law<\/p>\n<p>For decades history books in New Zealand taught schoolchildren that the Moriori people were extinct.<\/p>\n<p>The accepted wisdom was that the Polynesian settlers of the Chatham Islands, who arrived hundreds of years before M\u0101ori, were wiped out by invading M\u0101ori tribes, who killed and enslaved their population after landing on the islands in 1835.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/after-more-than-150-years-new-zealand-recognises-extinct-moriori-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polynesian settlers of the Chatham Islands sign treaty to have their status, existence and rights enshrined in lawFor decades history books in New Zealand taught schoolchildren that the Moriori people were extinct.The accepted wisdom was that the Polyn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,503,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14409,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408\/revisions\/14409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}