Te Kooti
Ngā kura huna - on a path to hidden treasure at Opepe
Push your way through a tangle of bush only kilometres from the Napier-Taupō highway and you are on an ancient pa site. Tangata whenua sheltered here hundreds of years ago but this site is known to… Video, Audio
Ngā kura huna - on a path to hidden treasure at Opepe
Push your way through a tangle of bush only kilometres from the Napier-Taupō highway and you are on an ancient pa site. Tangata whenua sheltered here hundreds of years ago but this site is known to…
AudioTe Kuiti Pā whare tūpuna turns 150 years old
It's borne witness to some of this country's most significant historical moments. The whare tūpuna at Te Kuiti Pā, built by Te Kooti, turned 150 this week, and now its trustees are looking to the next… Video, Audio
6: New Zealand Wars (Part 2)
As British troops leave, settler militia enter the fray. Some Māori chose to fight alongside the Crown while others join new religious movements, which seem to promise a way out of the conflict. Audio
Mark Derby: Ragnar Redbeard
The name Ragnar Redbeard won't be familiar to many. His book Might Is Right published in 1890 declared "death to the weakling - wealth to the strong" and it's a proto-fascist work still popular among… Audio
Lee Tamahori: Making 'Mahana'
Filmmaker whose first New Zealand movie in 20 years, Mahana, adapted from the novel Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera, tells the story of two Maori sheep-shearing families on the East Coast in the 1960s. Mah… Audio
