‘This is the second instalment of an ongoing documentary project that explores what it means to be Māori, in the 21st Century. In 2000 we met four Māori families having a baby. In 2007 we revisited the families as those babies turned seven’.
(Source: https://www.maoritelevision.com/shows/whanau/S01E001/whanau-2007-series-1).
Ngā whānau katoa:
Renei Ngawati (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Porou) and son ‘Kahana’:
Neil Glassie. Carol and Gerard Ngawati. University of Auckland. Kōhanga Reo. Rutherford Primary School. Shift to mainstream schooling. Annual Māori Touch Rugby Tournament. Cook Islands.
Mereana Maika and Joe Angus and son ‘Uenukukopako’:
Kennedy Bay. Te Kura a Iwi o Whakatipuranga Rua Mano ki Ōtaki. Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Harataunga. Taihaere and [Sid?] Maika. Kennedy Bay urupā.
Maui and Brandi Hudson and son ‘Koare’:
Tiamai and Rakaia. Whakatōhea, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Rārua. Rotorua. Owhata Primary School. Ka tanu i te ‘whenua’ ki te urupā ki Opape Marae. Kaputuhi Marae. Rore Pat Stafford, Ngāti Rārua, Ngāti Maniapoto. Lynne Stafford, Ngāti Pikiao, Waikato.
Travis and Rachel Ormsby with sixth child ‘Pianika’:
Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu, Tainui. Dairy farming and share milking. Tauranga Moana. Ka tanu i te whenua o te pēpi. Te Puna School, Hāngī. Māori Language Immersion Unit. Tauranga Moana Tino Rangatiratanga flag. Annual rā whakangāhau at Maungatapu School.