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Tangata Whenua, Waikato

Television, 1974

 Tangata Whenua, Waikato

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An episode of the 1974 documentary series Tangata Whenua, this programme looks at 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. The script (written by Michael King and director Barry Barclay) won a Feltex Award. The groundbreaking series (remarkably, first screened in primetime on Sunday nights) took viewers into a Māori world then still foreign to many New Zealanders. The series was produced by John O'Shea.

 
 

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Included in the Matariki Collection curated by Whai Ngata in June 2009.

 

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Tangata Whenua: A Gift to the Future by Paul Diamond [Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa, Ngā Puhi] | 21.04.2009

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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