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‘This one was personal’: Mihi Forbes on the new Tainui wars documentary
The latest documentary in the New Zealand Wars series hit different for presenter Mihingarangi Forbes. She explains why to Leonie Hayden.
Content warning: contains descriptions of the murder of women and children, and sexual assault.
The military campaign by the British Crown to suppress Māori sovereignty and acquire Māori land for the new settler colony played out in different parts of New Zealand, over a number of battles and massacres between 1845 and 1872.
In Waikato, that campaign began in 1863. Governor George Grey built his supply line – what we know today as Great South Road – to transport more than 18,000 troops from Auckland all the way down to the Mangataawhiri River, the northernmost border of more than a million acres of sacred Tainui lands. King Taawhiao, the second Māori king, had warned that crossing Mangataawhiri would be considered a declaration of war.
26 February 2021
The third epic chapter in RNZ’s award-winning series – NZ WARS: STORIES OF TAINUI – screens on Māori Television on Wednesday 17 March 2021 at 8.30 PM.
Great Southern Television and Aotearoa Media Collective have teamed up with RNZ to create a digital documentary project that vividly illustrates how the battles looked, sounded and felt.
The 1863 invasion of the Waikato was a defining conflict in New Zealand history, reinforcing the Crown’s power, giving rise to land confiscations and entrenching one of the country’s oldest political institutions – the Kiingitanga movement.
The hour-long programme is presented by Mihingaarangi Forbes and features historian Dr Vincent O’Malley alongside esteemed iwi historians Rahui Papa, Brad Totorewa, Tom Roa, Mamae Takerei and Kawhia Muraahi.
Friday, 26 February 2021, 3:08 pm
The third epic chapter in RNZ’s award-winning series
–
NZ WARS: STORIES OF TAINUI – screens
on Māori Television on Wednesday 17 March 2021 at 8.30
PM.
Great Southern Television and Aotearoa Media
Collective have teamed up with RNZ to create a digital
documentary project that vividly illustrates how the battles
looked, sounded and felt.
The 1863 invasion of the
Waikato was a defining conflict in New Zealand history,
reinforcing the Crown’s power, giving rise to land
confiscations and entrenching one of the country’s oldest
political institutions – the Kiingitanga
movement.
The hour-long programme is presented by
Mihingaarangi Forbes and features historian Dr Vincent