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Tangata Whenua was a groundbreaking six part documentary series that first screened in 1974. Historian Michael King was scriptwriter, interviewer and narrator. Each episode (remarkably screening in primetime on Sunday nights) chronicled a different iwi and included interviews with kaumatua - a first for NZ screens. This full-length episode looks at the people of Waikato, and focuses on the Kingitanga (King Movement), illustrating why a movement formed in the Waikato in the 19th century to halt land sales and promote Māori authority has contemporary relevance.
Over six Sunday evenings in November and December 1974, New Zealand television screens became (primetime) windows into a Māori world still very foreign to many New Zealanders. About a million viewers watched Tangata Whenua, the six-part ...
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@Karepe Kia ora. We are working on getting more episodes of this series onto the site. There are a lot of rights clearances to work through, but we're getting there! More soon.
kia ora
i just want to know if u can get the tangata whenua series of 1974 on Tokomaru Bay and Nga tamatoa with ngoi pewhairangi in it. I am really interested in seeing this
Thats how it was when mum took me to Ngati Haua... Tauwhare Marae Te Ngore father side of my mother's side.
Mum's dad: nanny trevor... Hotene well his great great grandmother? or grand mother was Harepo Rongo
I am who?
I am one with all
Kia ora awesome i loved the whole show please let me know how to get a copy.
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Posted at 06.17PM - 19.12.2011
maake from tauwhare is who i am... this is for Te Rama Kerr....
darling!! your family you come from are as big as life, very beautiful people, i whangaid Trevor Hotene's mokopuna myself, i know how important it is to know where u come from, i made a promise to nana trevor that i would make sure kirirangiwhau Taiapa would know who her uncle and aunties were..her birth father was eru fawcett whangai by harold and polly fawcett from tauwhare. uncle trevor is eru's brother,there sisters are neta, tira, rongo and anne. these are jst from what i remember, i know them.
9 kahui ave tauwhare my darling is uncle trevors address.