Stolen Lands | Episode 1: The Chief | RNZ 

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

Te reo Māori poetry in motion to my ears. Whakatōhea ❤

What an awesome taonga you've all created! Well done! Be proud of yourselves!

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! ❤

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.

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!!

Love and respect to NZ from Greece. This is a great video, just wish it had subtitles.

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.

Hanging out with the cuzzies has always been next level fun they know how to live

Thanks for this production.

Thank you for sharing. I remember hearing his name growing up in Ponsonby.

Some of you might not accually believe me but the creator of this is accually my cousin

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 .

Such a beautiful language 🎉🎉🎉😊🎉Love documentary

Awesome knowledge. ❤. Excellent 👌

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

This land is so beautiful so majestic so many stories I'd like to listen and be taught where did your ancestors orignate from

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 .

Vengence and bloodshed,put to an end by pakeha,sad but true.

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.

Even I....lose breath over the beauty of our backyard.....

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

I really really appreciate and adore your attire so magnificent

No subtitles is hard to watch, will come back when subtitled

I love he sound of this language

Lovely documentary

Lady nailed the language well done Lass

Caretakers of the land can't be stolen if we continue to look after it.

Ancient Kemet was civilized & estaablished after the deluge (now known as Noah Ark) through Tangaroa (Enki) son Thoth who ruled over the land of Kemet for 16K years, which is recorded by the people of Kemet. The Hyksos were the first known foriegn rulers of Kemet 1650BCE-1550BCE. The first known Greek contact into Africa was in the 14 century BCE who eventually studied through the Mystic System & eventually changed the name of Kemet to what is genrally known as Egypt.

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

OPOTIKI!!!!!!!!!🤪😝😝🤪🤪🤪😝😝🤪😝🤪😝🤪😝🤪😝🤪😝🤪😝💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🌈💖

The translation is in the moving pictures people

Oh i miss the beautiful Aotearoa.

Are the Moriori going to get their justice?

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

abrazos desde argentina!

It's like "Chinese whispers" so many extended stories are out there you don't know what to believe anymore SAD

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.

0:17 2:19 tamoko 26:35

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.

ki te taha o toku kuia gussy maihi. ko Te whanau aa apanui tona iwi.

Interesting after finding out I have ancestors from New Zealand and from Waikato and from waitangi and from Auckland and from Wellington and from the Cook Islands and I’m from Australia

Its ki waenganui tainui ancient waka district waikato maniapoto

Push captions ti get subtittles

Who’s compensated the mori ori for being slaughtered

Lets see steal it back

Explain our culture before you release it so that the audience has some understanding of our world views during this era

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.

The treaty wasn't Co Governance that's obvious 😲

Kupapa elete era teheiheu

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.

Haha well y'all are warriors....steal it back

The lion is the king of the jungle I'll just leave it there

Very sad,just because the crown was stronger military,it took the Māori land.

Be proper to translate for those of who are lacking in te reo

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.

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

Ko Ngati rua te iwi ko tutamure te rungatira ko Muriwai the mother in law

He ain't he a model,so serious .it Sullivan people they all passes,everyone else arrive on boats.

Colonization turned out well for us living here today... We should all be very grateful to live here.

get this off here

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

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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.

The Woman are so Beautiful and so Strong

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.

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

hhhmmmmm.... hahahahah

you do know that the idea of someone owning land based on race is a social construct and doesn’t exist, the idea of stolen land is a European one, the Māori weren’t one group of people jsut because they had the same skin colour like all of humanity, they enslaved cannibalised and hated one another, they colonised eachothers territory, history was about whoever could had the most superior war tactics won, their was no United Nations, their was no moral or international law saying this is right and wrong, I don’t know why only Europeans were supposed to know what’s morally wrong in 2024 200 odd years where as everyone else who has benefited from “injustices” of their ancestors (so every single human) just gets away with it well also being able to somehow be the victim in it all, nothing more European than created universal morals only to be the only one held up to it

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.

Wish this was In English as well

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.

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.

Tell the cows they should if stayed in China,go follow them.

Yeah stolen from the moriori people

Seriously, this is total ignorance , using a language that has little understanding by the majority that may be interested in learning Maori history.

Poor Maori pronunciation no malice

Please stop saying Maori wars please call them the colonial invasion

Just relax. be cøöl.

Why don't you look at why your ancestors signed the treaty, it's obvious but you cry hard done by 😢

Doctrine of Christian Discovery....Mata atua

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.

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.

Lucifer I bind you in Jesus name you now get 3000 years more of punishment

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 ...

Always good to see taxpayer funded propaganda

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. - Barack Obam

Who stat in new Zealand story tell Maori land gostes says my people don't your s