Duration: 3:11
Uplifting music plays.
[A shot of Waipukurau township from the top of a pā site. The view pulls back, to reveal a large, white waharoa (carved entranceway) at the top of the hill.]
[Text: Ngā Ara Tipuna – Recovering our stories]
[Text: Ngā Ara Tipuna is a digital storytelling trail in Waipukurau, Tamatea Central Hawke’s Bay.]
[Mid-shot of Marino Tiuka, A Māori man wearing a pounamu (greenstone) tiki necklace.]
[Title: Marino Tiuka (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Ruapani) – Head of Te Reo Māori, Ruataniwha/Central Hawke’s Bay College]
Marino: In the early days, we'll come here with classes to wananga, just sit on the hill and talk about what might have been here,
[Wide shot of a group of school aged children practicing kapa haka on the side of a hill]
Marino: and what it may have looked like and just sort of imagine pre-European existence on this whenua and talk about why this space was chosen.
[Mid-shot of Marino as he continues to speak.]
Marino: A few years later, there was a little dream from one of my Year 10 classes, to have a more specific identification of the site, put some signage and information. And of course, there was a really small seed of thought, kids thinking about just a simple little sign that might allow people to understand there was more here than just grass and sheep and farm fences.
[Mid-shot of Kelly Annand, a Pākehā woman with blonde hair and glasses, wearing a black suit.]
[Title: Kelly Annand – Deputy Mayor, Central Hawke’s Bay]
Kelly: I remember when I first got into council, what, nine years ago and one of the conversations that I had with Dr. Roger Maaka back then, was that there was no visible evidence of Māori in Central Hawke's Bay,
[Wide shot of a busy road leading to the Waipukurau township.]
Kelly: you could drive through here, and you didn't really know that Māori lived here.
[Mid-shot of Kelly as she continues to speak.]
Kelly: And they really set there for me.
[Mid shot of Brian Morris, a Māori man wearing a check shirt. He stands outside on a walking track.]
[Brian Morris – Ngāti Mārau, Ngāi Te Rangitotohu, Cultural lead for Ngā Ara Tipuna]
Brian: As a person who grew up here, a lot of the stories were never told. And so the perspective you had on your own home was very much the perspective you got through the schooling system.
[Wide-shot of Waipukurau township]
Brian: So I knew more about the Austro Prussian war. I knew more about the Hacienda system in South America, I can tell you about the unification of Italy.
[Mid-shot of Brian as he continues to speak]
Brian: But I couldn't tell you anything about the place where I grew up.
[Drone shot following a river on the edge of the township]
Brian: The education side, I think is important because every town has a story.
[Mid-shot of Brian as he continues to speak]
Brian: And this is a perspective that has never been shared. So here you have what was a pā site.
[Various shots from the view at the top of the pā site, showing the waharoa and people exploring the site.]
Brian: The town that's here has been built around it. Yet, we've come across so many people in the development who have said, I never knew this. Why wasn't I told?
[Drone footage of the Central Hawke’s Bay countryside]
Dr Roger Maaka: This area here is rich in history.
[A young person reads signage at the bottom of the Ngā Ara Tipuna trail.]
Many of these stories over the years have been all but lost. And a number of us have spent many years trying to recover these stories.
[Mid-shot of Dr Roger Maaka, a Māori man. He stands outside at the base of the Ngā Ara Tipuna trail.]
[Text: Dr. Roger Maaka - Ngāi Tahu ki Takapau, Emeritus Professor, Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT)]
And now we want to tell them in a way that the younger generations can understand them and remember them and treasure them. And we also offer it and invite the general public of this area to own these stories and enjoy them and see them as part of the heritage of this land and the settlements that are here.
[Drone footage following the Tukituki river in Waipukurau]
[Text: Ngā Ara Tipuna is a partnership between Tamatea Hapū, Te Taiwhenua o Tamatea, Central Hawke’s Bay District Council and Locales.]
[Drone footage capturing the top of the pā site]
[Text: Kānoa – Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit provided a grant of $2.9 million from the Provincial Growth Fund, adding to more than $1 million in funding from council, community trusts and other groups.]
[Drone footage showing the top of the pā site. A bird swoops towards the camera.]
[Three logos appear: Kānoa Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment Hīkina Whakatutuki and Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa New Zealand Government]
[Fade to black]
Music fades out.
