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Lost in Translation 1 - The Beginnings (episode one)
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2009
Comedian Mike King retraces the 1840 journey of the nine sheets of the Treaty of Waitangi in this 10-part series. The introductory first episode explores the epiphany that inspired King to embark on “his dream project”. He rues his Treaty ignorance and lack of te reo, shares his struggle with memory loss since he suffered a stroke in 2006; and makes an emotional return home to learn about his link to the Treaty via his tīpuna. After debuting on Waitangi weekend, 8 February 2009, Dominion Post critic Linda Burgess called it “dignified, conciliatory, informative.”
I can’t wait to meet all New Zealanders up at Waitangi and for them to say to me we’re here because our opinion of this wonderful document has changed.– Mike King on the power of the treaty.
Key Cast & Crew
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Produced by
Ponsonby Productions
Source
Ponsonby Productions
Acknowledgements
Made with funding from NZ On Air
Tags
- 1800s
- 1840
- ancestry
- aotearoa
- authority
- claudia orange
- colonial
- colonialism
- colonial twang
- colonisation
- conflict
- control
- david hadfield
- declaration of independence
- education
- erima henare
- familial links
- gisborne
- henry williams
- he whakaputanga o te rangatiratanga o nu tireni
- history
- horse riding
- identity
- imperialism
- indigenous
- land wars
- manutuke
- manutuke marae
- māori
- māori chief
- māori identity
- māori pākehā conflict
- māori spirituality
- māori wars
- marae
- mawiti gardiner
- mohi tāwhai
- new zealand colonial history
- new zealand on air
- new zealand wars
- nz on air
- paerata
- peace
- peace talks
- racial divide
- rangatira
- rangitukia
- rewa
- spiritual
- spirituality
- stroke
- tahu potiki
- tamariki
- tangata whenua
- taupo
- taupō
- te rauparaha
- te reo
- te reo māori
- te tiriti o waitangi
- the crown
- the state
- timi te heuheu
- tolaga bay
- treaty of waitangi
- tupaea
- tupuna
- waimā
- waitangi day
- waitangi tribunal
Categories
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