Stolen Lands | Episode 1: The Chief | RNZ
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[PG] Mokomoko was a prominent Māori Chief of Te Whakatōhea Iwi in Ōpōtiki, in the 1860s. He was born into a legacy and the role of a Leader. He dedicated his life in protecting his land and people. Known for his intellect, Mokomoko was well versed in trading and exporting produce to Auckland & NSW. In addition, he had secured land which connected to one of the most sought-after ports in Aotearoa.
The 1860s was a trying time for Māori in Aotearoa. People were trying to adapt to a new system led by Queen Victoria and her government, which intended to obtain Māori land for settlers.
Mokomoko was well educated in the land confiscations happening in the North Island and the land wars. People corresponded through letters, delivering information about the wars and the rise of religion. A group known as Paimarire or hauhau were causing unease to pakeha settlers, bringing about rejection of Christianity and distrust of missionaries over their involvement in acquiring Māori land. There was growing concern amongst the people. As more land had been taken over, battles continued to erupt between Māori and The Crown.
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I was born in NZ and spent a lot of time with Māori when I was a younger pakeha boy The spoken language is very familiar to my ear as I know many conversational words and phrases but piecing the language together eludes me. Every few words I get the gist of the conversation and try to read between the lines but lack flow. If we had subtitles to fill in the gaps of understanding it’d go a long way soak up the essence. Appreciated Kia Ora
Love that ❤
You sound more maori than me, lol. I'm a direct descendants of 8 very noble Maori bloodlines, including paramount chiefs. I'm proud of my Maori lineage, but I was raised in a European world, white privilege, private schooling 🏫 I'm an urban city slicker, but my mum had a taste of both the country and city lifestyle and Maori and European culture growing up. She also attended Queen Victoria Maori girls boarding school in Parnell, when it was considered prestigious and for privaleged Maori. She became seriously involved in Maori affairs when she was in her 30's, highly qualified, well educated, and continues to be involved and she has achieved alot for Maori in general and her hapu's. I have many Maori relatives who were/are dignitaries, deceased and alive. Big deals, including some of my mums positions. YET..... I'm glad I was bought up European. I don't feel Maori, dot speak Maori , don't sound Maori, but I am proud of my Maori ancestry and I acknowledge it well. ❤
They cannot retain their own language because maoris are not interested and turn round and blame colonisation, inadequate blame others. WHERE are those who went through full immersion schools. kzhead.info/sun/ks-Qqd6fn3Vrf68/bejne.html.
You can click subtitles in settings
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What an awesome taonga you've all created! Well done! Be proud of yourselves!
For a non maori speaking person trying to understand the culture and heritage. It would be good to have translation titles because I don't understand half of it. Love to come back and watch with translation.
Translation.....not based on actual fact.
Turn captions on....
@@PakehaParker what
@@PakehaParker would you like to enlighten us with your story of what actually happened? Or were you merely just stirring the potty...
@@InappropriatelyMe don't get me started. I'm not in the mood 😒
I'm so rooted to understand other islanders far and near. Pacific islander born and raised and living in the mainland half here and half in Guam. Language, respect, and old ways with today's ways of teachings, taught me the importance of understanding, respecting flows of each kind and have an open mind. There's nothing wrong with sharing ways of life in all ends of the world so as long as culture, religion, and traditions are respect. One Love that's it! ❤
whats the mainland?
I don't speak hardly no maori but I can appreciate that it is a good thing to have content presented entirely in te reo maori!!
You cannot even speak English.
Te reo Māori poetry in motion to my ears. Whakatōhea ❤
Love and respect to NZ from Greece. This is a great video, just wish it had subtitles.
It does have subtitles - click in settings
Some of you might not accually believe me but the creator of this is accually my cousin
Thank you for sharing. I remember hearing his name growing up in Ponsonby.
Thanks for this production.
Hanging out with the cuzzies has always been next level fun they know how to live
Thank you. This is the kind of history that should be told more frequently. There should be more documentaries, films, and television shows based on Māori history.
What vegetables did Māori grow? Māori foods - kai Māori - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand When Pākehā settlers arrived in Aotearoa, Māori embraced the new foods they brought, and began cultivating them. These crops included wheat, potatoes, maize, carrots, cabbage and other vegetables. Māori also began raising sheep, pigs, goats and poultry.
thank you for such a great episode.
Very interesting and great to know a lil whakapapa of whakatohea, opotiki..had a friend from there . they donhave Big hearts .
Awesome knowledge. ❤. Excellent 👌
Vengence and bloodshed,put to an end by pakeha,sad but true.
Lost me mate, are you ok ? Koro Island Fiji if your confused.@@riverofstars8567
This land is so beautiful so majestic so many stories I'd like to listen and be taught where did your ancestors orignate from
POLYNESIA.ONLY, four hundred years before Europeans,
Such a beautiful language 🎉🎉🎉😊🎉Love documentary
For those who are wondering, you can activate subtitles by clicking the CC button thats next to the settings symbol. Top right of your screen
Thank you 🌻🇦🇺
No subtitles is hard to watch, will come back when subtitled
Has subtitles now
Even I....lose breath over the beauty of our backyard.....
Its such a great Beautiful place can anyone travel to these places that you show or is it forbidden for outsiders to visit it's so amazing I sense something so profound had happened here
These places are absolutely accessible with minimal restrictions....remembering to leave only our footprints....
The land belongs to god and always will. We are just temporary residents passing by here today and gone tomorrow. 200 years from now we will not even be a memory to anyone.
only those with ancestors worth forgetting get forgot. Ngati Manu Ngati Kuri.
I really really appreciate and adore your attire so magnificent
So much hate... jealousy... greed... these people had for Tangata Whenua because of the abundance they had. There are many similar stories all across Aotearoa of those times, how the Crown confiscated Maaori land, raped & murdered its people. thanks for bringing Mokomoko's story to the masses .
Are you really going to pretend guys like Hongi Hika and Te Rauparaha didn't take land that wasn't theirs by force and kill their fair share of people? Would you say Ngati Toa stole the land of what is now Wellington and Nelson or Ngai Tahu taking the south island from Ngati Kuri and many others before? Or does that not count?
Lol
@@antmanatthemoment7233 Of course it matters but the difference is they are Tangata Whenua that's a whole different story. Who's hands is the majority land in now? I know what the crown did to my beautiful ancestors & my ancestral lands for a fact. #Stolen
@@thewhiteghost88 lol what
@@275loccinallday3 true to an extent, but what about the iwi that killed the Moriori, the tangata whenua of the Chatham Islands and mostly displaced them?
RNZ its great to have our true history broadcasted on "mainstream media" positive progression for Maaori Its our time now, no more false narratives and deception. The true history and events of Aotearoa is unraveling as the tables have turned
Lovely documentary
Caretakers of the land can't be stolen if we continue to look after it.
What do you mean I'm not sure if I understand
@@user-on2vk8kk8jMaori never viewed themselves as OWNING the land, in short perspective we belong to the land we do not own it to ideal of owning something that created us come along with the western society.
Tautoko
Oh i miss the beautiful Aotearoa.
Tuhoe access to the sea was never lost because of the battle of maraetotara. It’s a misnomer to say Tuhoe lost when in fact it was only one hapū of Tuhoe that were there. They were assisting ngati Awa and won the battle. The Whakatohea women performed a randy haka and the men dropped their guard and were defeated. Also, the whakatohea boundary here is an over exaggeration. The map goes over waimana kaaku and in to the waikare river. The waimana river was never called that it’s called Tauranga. Get your history right. Treaty settlements cause people to overextend their mana. Honour the tīpuna, but don’t create things that never happened. Remember it was Tuhoe who sheltered a lot of the Whakatohea during the land wars and is evident in whakapapa today. Whakatohea mana in ohiwa grew following 1840s when their people were released from captivity in hauraki and up north.
It's like "Chinese whispers" so many false stories out there you don't know what to believe anymore
Lady nailed the language well done Lass
Are the Moriori going to get their justice?
It's like "Chinese whispers" so many extended stories are out there you don't know what to believe anymore SAD
I love he sound of this language
I don't understand Maori me coming from Ranfurly but I will learn very quickly being among Mom and Dads family in the north when the time comes a new beginning
Over 30 years ago i was taught many things by kaumatua regarding Maori languages, culture, legends and history, the Treaty of Waitangi. I saddens me and sickens me the few extremists are prepared to divide, mock, shame, abuse their own people. Culture and history for greed, fame and allow their "feelings " get in the way of facts, majority to move forward with the right intentions. These extremist live in a fantasy land with tunnel vision which undoubtedly could destroy true integrity of Maori in the modern world.
abrazos desde argentina!
ki te taha o toku kuia gussy maihi. ko Te whanau aa apanui tona iwi.
0:17 2:19 tamoko 26:35
I think it's great to tell the stories in the language that they're coming from I'm in awe I believe the people are so very strong and fierce and I would guess they are also humble
Good to see our history being put out there for us to learn. I found this hard to follow, though. Maybe cause I'm just not from this area. Can't wait to follow the rest of the series and try to learn more
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Its ki waenganui tainui ancient waka district waikato maniapoto
Early settlers must have heard maori words starting with wh as there is NO wh F sound in English, so should be pronounced as with where.
The translation is in the moving pictures people
OPOTIKI!!!!!!!!!🤪😝😝🤪🤪🤪😝😝🤪😝🤪😝🤪😝🤪😝🤪😝🤪😝💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🌈💖
Who’s compensated the mori ori for being slaughtered
Who???
Noone, you guys need to stop acting like your some random different race, you left without the blessing of the other tribes so you we're hunted down because of it. Learn history before making demands about compensation.
They were compensate several years ago with heaps of money from guess who. Not Maori that's for sure.
Moriori are a fairy tail concocted by white fullars as a cover for their atrocities
NO LANDS STOLEN, MAORI DID NOT HAVE ANY,THEY JUST HAPPENED TO LIVE THERE.sETTLERS GREW COMMUNITIES INTO A NATION AND A CENTRAL GOVENMENT,THIS IS NOT COLONISATION AND THEY WERE THE FIRST NATION PEOPLE.
Are you right in the head?
Caps lock key, pal
@@Johnyevil EMPHASIS,PAL< no rule against using them.
@berniefynn6623 it's against the law of the internet, ha
Push captions ti get subtittles
Ko Ngati rua te iwi ko tutamure te rungatira ko Muriwai the mother in law
Explain our culture before you release it so that the audience has some understanding of our world views during this era
I understand that lands where infact stolen e tika nga korero, but do not generalize migrants that came here BEFORE eg: fair trade for whalers for piracy for christianity With those that came after The New Zealand Company was established
I learned earlier this year that Hone Heke is American Indian.
We are Godzone. The first multicultural country in the world. We had the first multicultural police force.
@@daviniatuhura3933 how can that be he's Maori from my tribe nga Puhi he cut down the British flag
This is not the first Maori video on line ☝🏾
The treaty wasn't Co Governance that's obvious 😲
Be proper to translate for those of who are lacking in te reo
Click the little cc button and you will have your translation
Who said that
Very sad,just because the crown was stronger military,it took the Māori land.
mokomoko at the battle did not have weapons as presented he had a toki which the 1 st family still have i hate this it is disturbing rukahu
Kupapa elete era teheiheu
What a disrespect to our tupuna he was not a rangatira he was a Noaia, a rangatira is a commoner leader, noaia was a leader with mana Tai o puru. THIS not okay it is faulse korero. who ever reads this this is the younger whanau claiming their mana engari it is only poka tikanga.
Kind of pointless watching this unless you understand Māori, it would be good with English subtitles the rest of New Zealand and maybe sign language to just to be fair
The lion is the king of the jungle I'll just leave it there
the true story goes like this king tane of the heavens came back as a baby reborn and the 2 queens found me the maori queen and Elizabeth the reptilians queen me and tu heitia had a fight for future king I won of course but the queens forced there guards to kill me so they could try to make claim on my matriarch tittle but I'm never to be replaced this is how our lands got got stolen jealous that the gods are real and stole my kingdom and perverted it with dysfunction when that happened you had to pay to live in your own homes and you had to pay for power and took everyone's freedom away who wants there freedom back its the return of the king tane hauata remember I've had many last names I'm back to choose 11 kings to rule beside me and must be worthy and have the old school mana and knowledge of ringatu only the kings shall rule the govt of my home pledge alegence to tane only I have to re do the kingitanga this must never happen again on my next return only I can save us without me there's no maori and there will no longer be humans existing in the future people must be re trained to protect gods kingitanga my carving of tane mahuta sits on the heavenly throne I was there before Jesus pray to I.o to guide tane and give his strength back I'm a professional king and g.o.d man worthy of the tittle as king of all kings god of gods tane not Yahweh stupid liars perverted my name so if your in hell and you don't know my name is tane then your stuck in hell good luck to you all. if something happens to me I'm not suicidal and don't think of harming myself or others jus know that the greedy elites and aliens have killed me but I'll turn into a mighty angel and slaughter them all so m.i.b know all about me they wont save you from me I'm the captain around here tane aue hi
fun fact chief mokomoko died from accusation and he got hung from being accused of murder so he got hung and after he died well thats when they finnaly found he was innocent.
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The truth is this land was never known as Aotearoa.. not once. It was known as 3 different islands pervious. Aotearoa was used first by Gregory Smith in his 1850s book. Learn the truth. Instead of adding propaganda into history.
@rainofstars1 never Been Aotearoa, it has zero historical meaning before 1850...
Māori came to what is now called New Zealand on canoes and occupied the land before Europeans came. Māori slaughtered the Moriori who were peaceful people that lived in the Chatham islands, Māori also slaughtered people and ate them.. They said the pakeha tasted salty.
Moriori STILL EXIST TODAY.
There were people living in NZ, before Maori. The maori, eliminated those civilisations. Living here, and adopting land. Doesnt give them the right, to say the lands ours. My 1st home was Rotorua. My 2nd home as a kiwi, was Opotiki since 1979. The history of the area, was mainly with the english settlers. farming and living there since the early 1800s. There are cemeteries on the hills, of English settlers only.
get this off here
Colonization turned out well for us living here today... We should all be very grateful to live here.
te manuhiri should be grateful they are here not the other way around.
@@dub_h7900 oh yes definitely
Exactly. Maori would have wiped themselves out by now without colonisation
No Colonization did nothing for us , that is why we have ongoing Te Tiriti O Waitangi negotiations. So no there's nothing really to Celebrate , the Secular Society seems to think so the " We are all one " in Aotearoa is kinda Cliche
@@alexlee3164 no, the crown was glad they intervened in the musket wars. If the Musket wars were to proceed with no crown intervention then one or two tribes (most likely Ngā puhi) would have unified all the tribes. The crown struggled to beat tribes that they outnumbered 10 to 1 so they would have had ZERO chance to beat a single unified Māori iwi
Wish this was In English as well
Another concerning thing is that NZ history when taught by Europeans, has never been "pro European" or bias, it has always been fair without narrative, but now that Māori are involved, it is obvious that the ones involved have extreme values, bias and resentment towards Europeans. The current government have aloud Māori extremists to voice their opinions with tax payer funding. I am also pretty sure the same crowd have re-written what is being taught in schools.
Well said 👏
The Woman are so Beautiful and so Strong
hhhmmmmm.... hahahahah
Prob would not have been colonized if there were buildings roads bridges etc - bare land would have looked like fair game to anyone back then. 1 person did not need 4 cities of land area to claim theres if its got nothing on it.
Yeah stolen from the moriori people
Why don't you look at why your ancestors signed the treaty, it's obvious but you cry hard done by 😢
Did Māori destroy your entire livelihood? Maybe not yet.....
@@_.Marz._ no you may have picked me up wrong, my child hood was growing up with maori but back then there was no difference what race you were, my grand kids are mainly maori and I encourage them to look into there history, to me they are family that I'm proud of.
Tell the cows they should if stayed in China,go follow them.
Seriously, this is total ignorance , using a language that has little understanding by the majority that may be interested in learning Maori history.
Paul moons books are in English and it's based on fact not this dribble.
Just relax. be cøöl.
You assume some grievance based on 21st century values. Get a grip, get a life and get on with the opportunity modern NZ presents to you. Just saying ...
About time the murderous, greedy and enviornmentally destructive Maori were held accountable for the genocide they waged against Moriori (the true natives to NZ), and for wiping out most of the NZ native species and forests.
As a Maori I agree, but I gather I am no longer a Maori now nor allowed a voice, because I do not fit the narrative or political agenda.
"Wiping out most of nz native species and forest".. "environmentally destructive". Please elaborate, I didn't realize they destroyed so much. Compared to impacts on our environment within the last hundred years say. Environmentally nz is much worse off now then it ever was.
@@noobatronicusjedi2667 The Maori burnt the Canternury forests to the ground chasing out the last of the moas, before driving them to extinction. That same destructive method was used again and again all over New Zealand by them. They had no concept of conservation. They also never did fugure out how to farm animals or how to improve available crops.
This is about Whakatohea, did Mori Ori dwell in Whakatohea? No
@@alexlee3164 Moriori were native to Rekohu/Chatham islands not mainland Aotearoa. Do some research. It was two tribes of Māori (mutunga and tama) who committed that atrocity, not all māori. Why do Māori as a collective get the blame for the crimes committed by TWO tribes
Please stop saying Maori wars please call them the colonial invasion
Is that so its easier to distinguish between the large scale wars Māori fought between themselves?
More maori were fighting with the crown than against it...fact.😊
How many Maori died in the musket wars compared to against the settlers?
@@wellingtonian2009 musket wars death count will be a hell of a lot higher. If it was a colonial invasion the only maori would be displayed in museums. Luckily for maori the English were not like them.this woke maori critical race 🏇 💩 is starting to piss me off.
Poor Maori pronunciation no malice
Doctrine of Christian Discovery....Mata atua
Lucifer I bind you in Jesus name you now get 3000 years more of punishment
What the heck does this have to do with this? Ans it is God Almighty and he only who can punish and judge anyone : Matthew 7 :: NIV. "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
Always good to see taxpayer funded propaganda
Haha this videos only been up 9hrs and already it has attracted a ballhead troll😀
@@lilboydz1 ooh found the racist. This sort of thing does tend to attract delusional racist though, so not surprised
Maori didn't have a written language so only a few generations and our history is unknown. For example no knowledge of the moa.and no ocean going knowledge.
It's because the European settlers weren't learning, but they got it in the end 😂
The title alone is designed to provoke and cast a negative light on Europeans
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. - Barack Obam
Amen