Marouna’s Recruitment Size:30x15 ‘Vaipae’ decided that a truce

‘Vaipae’ decided that a truce was their only option to avoid a massacre

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Aitutaki was invaded by foreign warriors referred to as the ‘Aitu’

landing on the east coast of Aotearoa’s north motu (island) and remained there

Marouna’s Recruitment Size:30x15 ‘Vaipae’ decided that a truceThe story of Marouna is one of the most important accounts of an historic rescue of the people of Aitutaki. Born in Rarotonga Marouna was Aitutaki on his mother side, who was a princess from Aitutaki and had been sent to the large island by her father to marry a man of equal or high rank. Many years after the princess had settled in Rarotonga, Aitutaki was invaded by foreign warriors referred to as the Aitu. All chiefly bloodlines (Ariki) were under