{"id":39279,"date":"2021-11-27T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/26\/long-fight-for-justice-ends-as-new-zealand-treaty-recognises-moriori-people"},"modified":"2021-11-27T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T18:00:35","slug":"long-fight-for-justice-ends-as-new-zealand-treaty-recognises-moriori-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39279","title":{"rendered":"Long fight for justice ends as New Zealand treaty recognises Moriori people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous settlers of the Chatham Islands celebrate \u2018significant milestone\u2019 as treaty enshrined in law apologises for wrongs and returns land<\/p>\n<p>After more than 150 years of struggle for justice, truth and reparation, the Moriori people of R\u0113kohu, or the Chatham Islands, can turn a new leaf on the history book that rewrote their story and taught generations of New Zealanders they were an inferior race that was now extinct.<\/p>\n<p>Moriori were the first settlers to the archipelago, 800 kilometres east of New Zealand, between 600 and 1,000 years ago and developed a distinct language, customs and culture before they were nearly wiped out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/26\/long-fight-for-justice-ends-as-new-zealand-treaty-recognises-moriori-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous settlers of the Chatham Islands celebrate \u2018significant milestone\u2019 as treaty enshrined in law apologises for wrongs and returns landAfter more than 150 years of struggle for justice, truth and reparation, the Moriori people of R\u0113kohu, or the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39280,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279\/revisions\/39280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}