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Nunuku-whenua was a
Moriori chief who is
known for
being a sixteenth-century pacifist. The Moriori, a
Polynesian people,
migrated to the then-uninhabited...
- emerged; this was
known as the law of
nunuku,
based on the
teachings of the 16th
century Moriori leader Nunuku-whenua. This
culture made it
easier for...
- high-ranking
Moriori chief Nunuku-whenua
introduced a
philosophy of non-violence in the 16th century,
known as
Nunuku's Law. This law
became engrained...
- of the
Chatham Islands,
practiced pacifism by
order of
their ancestor Nunuku-whenua. This
enabled the
Moriori to
preserve what
limited resources they...
- Sam
Nunuke Pera (born 4
April 1969 in Rarotonga) is a
retired Cook
Islands weightlifter. He
represented the Cook
Islands in
three editions of the Olympic...
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society was a
peaceful society and
bloodshed was
outlawed by the
chief Nunuku-whenua
after generations of warfare.
Arguments were
solved by consensus...
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chiefs that the
principle of
Nunuku was not
appropriate now, two chiefs—Tapata and Torea—declared that "the law of
Nunuku was not a
strategy for survival...
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returned home to Taranaki. In 1835, 24
generations after the
Moriori chief Nunuku had
forbidden war, the
Moriori welcomed about 900
people from two Māori...
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peace was
established after a
series of conflicts, when a
local chief,
Nunuku-whenua,
declared an end to war, and a
permanent restriction on
murder and...
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settling quarrels up to 'first blood'. This
cultural practice is
known as '
Nunuku's Law'. The
development of this
pragmatic dispute settlement process left...
