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
Friday, 12 February 2021, 7:16 am
NZ
Wars: Stories of Tainuiis the next compelling
chapter in RNZ’s award-winning documentary project on the
New Zealand Wars, released today on
rnz.co.nz and
accompanied by a three episode podcast presenting a wider
look at the events leading up to the war, the motivations of
the people who fought, and its impact on history.
The
1863 invasion of the Waikato was the defining conflict of
New Zealand, reinforcing the Crown’s power, entrenching
one of Aotearoa’s oldest political institutions (the
Kiingitanga) and resulting in land confiscations that
continue to shape New Zealand today. Once again,