This award-winning, trail-blazing book by Michael King restored the Moriori of the Chatham Islands to their rightful pla
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Table of contents :
FOREWORD: by Maui Solomon
INTRODUCTION
PROLOGUE: 24 March 1933
CHAPTER ONE: Tchakat Moriori
CHAPTER TWO: The Sun People
CHAPTER THREE: The Gods Are Dead
CHAPTER FOUR: The Maungahuka Experiment
CHAPTER FIVE: European Settlement
CHAPTER SIX: Moriori Voices
CHAPTER SEVEN: Judgment
CHAPTER EIGHT: Fog Before the Sun
CHAPTER NINE: And Then There Was One?
EPILOGUE: Renaissance
APPENDICES
1. A Moriori vocabulary
2. A list of Moriori living in 1861
3. Moriori migration traditions
SOURCE NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOOTNOTES