Jan Bieringa’s doco looks at the history of waka, and follows the project from construction and launch, to the training of a Dutch crew and arrival in Holland. (Where the first waka to permanently leave New Zealand shores makes a surreal sight on the canals of Abel Tasman’s birthplace....
Hei tā Grant Straker (Ngāti Raukawa), tētahi o ngā kaihanga, me te tumuaki o Straker: “I ahau e kuraina ana hei taitama Māori i te ngahurutau 1970 me te ihu o te ngahurutau 1980, kāore i kōrerotia, i whakaakona rānei te reo Māori i nga kura, a, ka whaka...
11Na ki tonu ratou i te honohonoa; ka korerorero ki a ratou ano, me aha ranei a Ihu e ratou. 12A i aua ra ka haere ia ki te maunga ki te inoi, he inoi tonu tana i te roa o te po ki te Atua. 13A, ka ao te ra, ka karangatia e ia ana akonga: ka whiriwhiria ...
Hei tā Grant Straker (Ngāti Raukawa), tētahi o ngā kaihanga, me te tumuaki o Straker: “I ahau e kuraina ana hei taitama Māori i te ngahurutau 1970 me te ihu o te ngahurutau 1980, kāore i kōrerotia, i whakaakona rānei te reo Māori i nga kura, a, ka whakapeka i...