Tagata Tangata 2 - Ngaa Kaitiaki Te Moananui-a-kiwa / Guardians of the Lands and Seas (Episode Two)

We walk with one foot on the land and the other in the sea. We are island people as much at home in the sea as on land.

– Narrator Ramona Papali’i

The base of Māori religious belief was environmental, hence their deep respect for everything that was created,

– Māori artist Pakiriki Harrison

Our ancestors navigated the largest ocean in the world. We settled islands thousands of miles apart, to become the most widely dispersed race of people in the world. Although the area in which we live is vast, it's mainly ocean: 500 parts sea to one part land. To an island people, land is precious; there is so little of it.

– Narrator Ramona Papali’i