Mihi Ngarangi-Forbes
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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You know, they talk about this really great relationship they have with Pākehā settlers at the time prior to this wall.
And there was a good lot of respect on both sides for each other's sovereignty and their business and economics and the rest of it.
And I think when the tide turned was when the Waikato and the Taranaki walls were taking place across the other side of the country and people like Bishop Selwyn were going over to be the bishop for the Crown and the colonial soldiers and settlers and he was starting to pop up and other people who had, you know, kind of made a promise and a handshake to live alongside each other in harmony and respectfully.
And so I think that's probably when they started to prick their ears up, thinking what's going on over here.
And actually, if this is happening in Taranaki, in Waikato, are we next?
And so that's probably where the tipping point was for them.
And they started to kind of start to think about what happened next.
I mean, you talk about deadly.
One thing about the New Zealand wars is that almost never was there a standing army there.
In the iwi side, they were always children and women and pregnant women and elderly because that's how a kainga or a pā operated.
In this pā in particular, Wairinga Ahika, it was a pā full of artists and musicians and
and gardeners, orators.
And it's interesting because when we had the launch on Saturday, the people who stood afterwards talked about how we may have lost 90% of our whenua as they did.
They lost the memory of their people.
But one thing that is just crazy because this is an area that
The Matatini winners on the stage, maira no, for generations and generations, they are carvers, they are witi iha mairas, they are writers, they are all the things.
So actually, they may have lost the memory of Matatini.
their ancestors' beautiful traits and abilities, but it carried on somehow through.
And they were just realizing and reveling in the magical kind of legacy of them on Saturday, which was an absolute privilege to be part of.
You know, it's called stories of Wairinga Ahika and they're always called stories of Wairinga Ahika because we never presume to know that we have the factual story all in one at that particular time in our history.
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