MĀORI - THE NEW DAWN [EXCERPT]

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Year
1985
Reference
F25255
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1985
Reference
F25255
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Series
TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:57:24
Production company
BBC
Taonga Māori Collection
Yes
Credits
Unspecified: Michael Dean

This documentary depicts early pioneer settlement and the ways in which Governments exploited and alienated Māori. Excerpts from the land occupation and evictions at Bastion Point; November 1983 - an historic event for Eva Rickard and her people when the 63 acres (Raglan Golf Course) was handed back to her people and her continuing struggle to fight for the remaining 25 acres.

Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Pat Hōhepa, wants University land and all former Māori land to be restored to Māori control.

Once Māori owned 66 million acres of land, today less than 1/16 is theirs. Until the 1950s, more than 50% lived in rural areas. With many Māori moving to the cities, small rural settlements of ancient tribal lands were left to deteriorate.

Today on the East Coast where the racial mix is 50/50, a new generation of Māori are realising that they can compete without losing their identity. At hui on marae, Māori are beginning to take up the challenge of dealing with managing their own destiny and to not rely on Pākehā concepts and decisions.

020:11 Api Mahuika speaks about how his people should look at establishing a federation.
024:10 Colonel Awatere of the Māori Battalion, a great scholar and soldier, was defiantly Māori even when it was unfashionable to be so. His daughter Donna Awatere, an educational psychologist, continues in this belief.
About 50% of Māori live in places like Auckland’s Ōtara, alongside other Polynesian groups. These areas are regarded as the ghettos of the city.
034:42 Hone Kaa became a national figure in 1981 as a protest leader against the South African Rugby Tour. Footage of events that occurred during the protest and an interview with Merata Mita, producer of the controversial documentary “Patu” is included.
045:00 For 20 years Māori were almost invisible on New Zealand Television until journalist Derek Fox, produced and appeared on a Māori News programme.
052:53 An inter-tribal marae built in West Auckland is where Dr. Pita Sharples looks forward to exciting new developments for Māori in the future.
057:11 Abrupt ending.