In 1835, some displaced Māori of the Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama iwi living in what is now Wellington invaded the Chatham Islands using a hijacked European ship. There, they began a genocide against the indigenous Moriori people.

What if this didn't happen?
 
Maybe the French or someone else controls the Chatham Islands?

Though then there's the possibility that the Moriori end up like the Easter Islanders.
 
Arguably by 1835 New Zealand proper was going to be some form of British either way - so a POD that stops the invasion and massacres may just end up with the Moriori remaining whole and in control of their islands, but with British over top.
 
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