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Overtaker40 t1_j4cuiq8 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in ‘When something like this comes up where we’re both excited, but also that sorrowful that we lost so much.’ — A Māori tribe in New Zealand is calling for the return of treasured artefacts listed for sale by the auction house Sotheby’s by marketrent

I was saying this aswell until about a year ago, then I attended a history lecture.

While there are truths here including a genocidal attack on the moriori in the mid 1800s. The people that first arrived in New Zealand were in actual fact the ancestors of the Maori people.

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