Māori people peaceful tribes from their productive turangawaewae, such as the Moriori in the Chatham Islands by invading forces from North Taranaki, had a catastrophic effect on these conquered tribes. At the same time, the Māori suffered high mortality rates for new Eurasian infectious diseases, such as influenza, smallpox and measles, which killed an unknown number of Māori: estimates vary between ten and fifty percent. The spread of epidemics resulted largely from the Māori lacking acquired immunity to the new diseases. A huge influx of European settlers in the 1870s increased contact among many of the indigenous people with the newcomers. Te
Indigenous people in video gaming depicted Indigenous people were misrepresented and perpetuated negative post-colonial stereotypes (see Custer's Revenge). Video games created by Indigenous people enable the creators to self-determine how they are represented and enables Indigenous people to picture themselves in the future. Indigenous people have been involved in a range of projects where they have the opportunity to depict themselves. These games range in the style of the collaboration from games that consult with a single Indigenous person to games that are entirely developed and designed by Indigenous people. There are Indigenous people working on a range of large blockbusters to small indie collaborations.