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Ngāti Maniapoto describes apology by the Crown as a fresh start for relations

The great hope is of a new chapter, forging a future while not forgetting, misremembering or mythologising the past, says Ngāti Maniapoto historian and kaumātua professor Tom Roa.

Generational effort to clean Puniu awa

Generational effort to clean Puniu awa
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The one about a Zen Buddhist in Kihikihi

The one about a Zen Buddhist in Kihikihi Newsroom 3/05/2021 © Provided by Newsroom Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. Richard Von Sturmer continues his meditations on Waikato towns with a visit to Kihikihi On a gentle rise five kilometres south of Te Awamutu, you come to the small town of Kihikihi, the Māori name for cicada. I visited in late summer when cicadas were at their peak. Kihikihi was once called The garden of New Zealand and Ngāti Maniapoto, who worked the land, cultivated apple and peach orchards, and raised crops of kumara, potatoes and marrows. This all changed when the British troops entered on February 23, 1864, looting and destroying the Māori settlement. The fruit orchards vanished and Kihikihi became a military garrison.

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