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Karakia. "I am the river, the river I am... "Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au (whakatauaki). That saying describes the intensity with which the people of Whanganui feel about the river, a place of healing a place of learning, and a place as a source of survival.
The people of Wanganui have put their case before the Waitangi Tribunal for the kaitiakitanga or caretakership of the river.
- kaikōrero: Nick Tangaroa - all we are asking for is the mana of our river.(in Te Reo). They talked of the birth of the mountain and the resources with in the river.
- unidentified speaker on Ngāti Rangi part of Ngāti Hau a Paparangi and spoke of their marae "nga mokai".
Haare mentions Taitoko Te Rangihiwinui Keepa or Major Kemp as he was also known and Te Kooti fought each other as adversaries on different sides and after Te Kooti's pardon in 1883 he and Major Kemp got together at Parikino on the Wanganui River. Kemp said "me tuhonohon taua hei arahi i to taua iwi Māori " Let you and I join forces and bow the canoe in the right direction for our people."
- waiata: "Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au, tu mokemoke nga tupuna".
- kōrero around their maunga Ruapehu and the Waikato river and all the tributaries that stem from Ruapehu that the river is their life.
- unidentified woman speaker talks about "Kotukokiri"[?] named after a river on the other side and the kaitiaki taniwha named "Aruaru".
E kore ahau e mate, ka whawhai tonu ahau / we will fight for justice and peace says Titokuwaru.