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 Metis and the founder of LaPensee gamer, project has a role in creating Honour Water and Invaders which bridges the gap of new media and cultural traditions There have also been numerous video games translated into Indigenous languages. For example, Pinnguaq has localized osmosis, Ittle Dew and Beneath the Floes. Academic studies of indigenous video gaming are still infrequent. In 2017, the peer-reviewed open-access Indigenous Studies journal "Transmotion" devoted a special issue to the topic. Indigenous people in video gaming Indigenous people have a long history of collaborating on the creation of video games. It has only been with the