The Recloaking of Banks Peninsula/Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

This can only be good for everybody.

[@jasonperreau4519]

Live on the Peninsula in purau. For the last 10 years. Amazing video super awesome for everone with the planting of the trees.. and the land returning. Often pop over on the motorbike to port Levy and connect with the Māori Spirits who are still connected to the land. They still call me chieftain. Ib this life . Thanks for sharing frank

[@ohaeman]

Superb ❤ Ngā mihi nui. 🙏

[@Usernametouse]

Amazing

[@dodoxasaurus6904]

Ngā mihi Jim! Ngā mihi Robin! Ngā mihi nui! Rawe

[@stevensad38]

All power to your elbow! I knew George Skipper at Birdlings Flat, he had the same vision, it is so good to see what you are doing for the future Thank you.

[@geogeek1758]

Would love to help with the replanting - are there volunteer planting days?

[@fabmanly1070]

Awesome

[@futurescalling]

I hope future generations appreciate seeing tui, korimako and kererū ...

[@haydentibbotts9088]

My bro had a farm up magnet bay, a few issues and think his mum sold it to an added to this wonderful story

[@Jeremymidgley1]

Great news for sure

[@Geezy5018]

Is there a way to help with the planting ? Māuri ora! Nga mini Uncle Robyn!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@user-trish344]

Awesome korero the understanding that you now know is a korero that many Maori have carried with us through intergenerational trauma. Finding out your whakapapa gave you an intrinsic sense of belonging to the whenua and indeed changed your life and outlook to involve yourself in your marae. Identity is important for all Maori to feel connected to their own iwi, hapu and whanau and why we link ourselves to maunga, moana, waka and marae.

[@hapuakohe]

Te Rauparaha had already destroyed most of Ngai Tahu before 1840 - first Kaikoura, then Kaipoi and lastly Onawe. Few survived that. Funny he never ever mentions that fact.

[@thomassolomon2629]

You do realize there were hundreds of Ngāi Tahu people living in Otago, Southland, The West Coast, and other pā's around the bank's peninsula area such as rāpaki near lyttelton that were safe. As well as that, many of the people in Kaiapoi pā had moved to other places prior to Te Rauparaha's attack because they knew one was imminent.

[@peterhall-jones3717]

Argh. Walter Mantell was "Commissioner for Extinguishing Native Titles".

[@uggali]

Baby boomers aren’t strong enough to face their demons. What I’ve seen only gen z and gen alpha are breaking the cycle and hauhake te matemate

[@user-cv9cm6kz1i]

A baby boomer resurrected the Māori reo

[@uggali]

@@user-cv9cm6kz1i diamond in the rough but they didn’t fix everything. They’re buried now but the deamons still haunt us

[@angemapu7184]

Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one. That's just yours. Humble yourself and keep learning. There is so much to learn and remember in Te Ao Maori.

[@uggali]

Hone Heke buckled and re erected the flag pole. Get it straight. Even been to Kororāreka? And fyi they intimately knew every aspect of the natural/supernatural world and everything has whakapapa whether animate or inanimate. ‘Ko te kai a te rangatira he kōrero he kōrero he kōrero’ haere ki te kura bao. Dont even speak to Hone Heke bcuz your people wouldn’t bow down and thats the reason we were all (almost) conquered. There is no such thing as inanimate in te ao Māori, neither is there in “‘western’ science” so they say