,,, the Maoris wouldn't want you to know it, but before New Zealand was colonized, they were one of the biggest group of slave traders in the southseas. Inter-tribal hatred has now simmered down to old scores being settled if there was ever a revolution here, but it's not all that visible these days. The Moriori were much worse off under pre-European colonization.
They should be thankful in not so many ways that they didn't suffer the fate of Africans and the Aboriginies,etc.