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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...
- 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...
- of the
Chatham Islands,
practiced pacifism by
order of
their ancestor Nunuku-whenua. This
enabled the
Moriori to
preserve what
limited resources they...
- missions.
After generations of warfare,
bloodshed was
outlawed by the
chief Nunuku-whenua and
Moriori society became peaceful.
Disputes were
resolved by consensus...
-
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...
- Awapātiki to
debate what to do, 24
generations after the
Moriori chief Nunuku had
forbidden war. The
younger men were keen to
repel the
invaders and argued...
- +105 kg category. He was born in Rarotonga. He is the son of
weightlifter Sam
Nunuku Pera, who
represented the Cook
Islands at the
Summer Olympics in 1992, 1996...
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instead settling quarrels up to 'first blood', a
cultural practice known as '
Nunuku's Law'. The
development of this
pragmatic dispute settlement process left...
