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Tangata Whenua was a groundbreaking six part documentary series. Barry Barclay directed and historian Michael King was writer, interviewer and narrator. Each episode (remarkably screening in primetime on Sunday nights in 1974) chronicled a different iwi and included interviews with kaumatua — a first for NZ screens. This 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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Kia ora Tania: you're right, the episode on NZ On Screen is one part of six (see Paul Diamond's backgrounder for further info on the series: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/tangata-whenua-waikato-1974/background#critique_0 ). We're working at clearing further episodes to show on the site, but this is a slow process involving iwi and whanau permissions. Currently their are two ways you might access further episodes: you could make a personal use request to TVNZ Archives (http://tvnz.co.nz/footage/request-form-personal-use-3379314 ) or you could visit the Wellington or Auckland branch of the Film Archives and watch an episode in one of the viewing rooms there.
Can anyone help me out here. This was originally a six part documentary of which one was screened in Taitokerau. From my memory this was series six, however I can only access up to series 4 here. I would like to view the last two series. Can anyone tell me how I can do that ?
He mihi aroha kia koutou nga ki te whanau o Port Waikato.
Was lovely to see my nanny Marama Rauwhero and her sister Nanny Hiko Wilson and nanny Tura and Waka Kukutai
So blessed to have them in my life.
I was looking through the photos. The fifth photo of the woman sitting at the table is my mother Meretiana Davis. The photo was taken in our home in Porirua.
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Television, 1988 (Full Length)
Groundbreaking magazine series about te ao Māori
Short Film, 1960 (Full Length)
1960 NFU doco on the Māori world from a Pākehā perspective
Television, 1977 (Full Length Episode)
The Waikato War episode of The Governor series
Television, 1998 (Excerpts)
Preparations for war in the Waikato in the 1860s
Television, 1987 (Full Length)
Also directed by Barry Barclay
Television, 1992 (Full Length)
A documentary on the history and preservation of marae
Television, 1974 (Full Length)
A landmark waka built at Turangawaewae marae
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Wanda Kiel-Rapana
Posted at 02.56PM - 18.02.2013
Just brilliant!