A 'waka huia' is traditionally a treasure box to hold the revered huia feather. Waka Huia the TV series records and preserves Māori culture and customs. The long-running series also covers social and political concerns of the day, taking a snapshot of Māori history. Waka Huia is seen as a taonga for future generations and is presented completely in te reo Māori. This first episode is about the language and its survival, and features groundbreaking TV interviews with Sir James Henare and Dame Mira Szaszy.
During the Te Māori exhibitions in North America and New Zealand in the mid-80s, Ernie Leonard, who was later to become the first Head of the Māori Programmes Department of TVNZ, asked the question, "What would happen if the planes ...
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