NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana | Documentary | RNZ

Awesome being a part of this doco.

I injoy when we get the truthfully stories of our history...I used to live in mangatoi , driving through pyes pa always felt like odd piece of land to me...thankyou loved the doco

Superbly made, deep enough to give recognition of those tipuna who defied odds, and embraced human dignity, small act of kindness. May we learn and never forget courageous beings, fighting for peace.❤

I was learning about this in my social studies but now I can really depict and visualise what it was like

A must watch for all New Zealanders. Know the history, you may begin to understand and not prejudge. Remember, British Colonialism was been replicated all over their empire at these times.

What a timely release coinciding with the memorial of the battle of Gate Pa.at Pukehinahina.❤

This doco makes alot of sense have always got a funny vibe around some parts of Tauranga actually alot of parts. Awesome mahi in the doco

I delved into this local local history as an artist years ago, really be quite obsessed with it. One of my works was of Heni and Booth at Gate Pa. I also spent a day wandering around Te Ranga and painted a couple works on this area. Heni had an interesting life, to say the least. It's worth reading the book, Jane's Story, if you're interested. I think her great grandson wrote it.

I Love learning about our histories

THANK YOU FOR UPLOAD...❤❤❤

Beautifully done Mihi, Anabelle mā ❤❤

Thank you for telling our history blew me away kia ors

Interesting video

Given Cameron’s defeat at Pukehinahina / Gate Pā and Henare Taratoa’s exemplary code of conduct for that battle, renaming Cameron Road Taratoa Road, would be a positive change. Or better still, Council could give the renaming opportunity & decision making to Tauranga Moana iwi.

Masterpiece History Presentation

These always make me cry for our people 😢💙

I love our land and our people.

Hope to see more documentaries about te kootis war and Tikokowarus war

It is said in this Documentary that there is little information on the Bush War follow up to the fighting at Gate Pa.....!. But there is a book written by Gilbert Mair who covered much of the fighting he writes in person giving day to day information on the Moari he led (on the side of the British) and the Kuhuhu Iwi force who were a Moari force Led by Moari fighting for their own reasons on the side of the British & why they did so is still under reported today,! Plus there were other British/colonial/Moari mixed forces acting as another group. Working with them hunting the likes of Te Kooti. Much of the book is devoted to fights with Te Kooti and those who joined him after the fighting in Wakato & Tauranga. The value of this book comes in first hand comments for Mair on what each Iwi were doing at the time. It covers things like Rewi Maniapoto comming to assess what was happening in person. Predicting the way things would go & successfully keeping the King County out of the fight with astute politics! Todays Politics have resulted in a more selected version of History that fails to record after Gate Pa most what happened & why from alternative views. Like the regular British troops got disbanned or sent elsewhere. This altered the Politics and some clever Moari leaders did a lot of good for their people by understanding that. Rotorua Moari friends requested I gave my copy Mair to them as they wished Te Arura Iwi to have a copy be kept safe. Which I did! If someone with a current copy should like to republish it I think it would cover the BIG gap in what was reported here & be of wide interest in NZ Things like view s of Moari who did not fight for either side. Mairs coments on Moari/European mixed married people which was wide spread even at that time. Many of the people killed by Te Kooti force when he returned to the North Island were of mixed race. It was of some interest that Gilbert Mair who ruthlessly hunted for Te Kooti seems to think Te Kooti was not guilty of the crimes he was deported for! He writes that he believes Te Kooti was a bit too free & wild with other mens wives & some petty crime in his own Moari community! So that many of his people own people were saying deport him too that British where happy frame him as terrorist to keep the peace! My family is European NZ & Moari. Their personal accounts are of mutual benifits as well as wars!

The ngapuhi wars are the best history telling