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Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On
Television (Full Length) – 2012
Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) in the early 1970s. "Those years helped shape the rest of my life," says Paratene in this 2012 Māori TV documentary, directed by Kim Webby. The programme is richly woven with news archive from the 1970s, showing protests about land rights and the Treaty of Waitangi, and a campaign for te reo to be taught in schools. Several ex Ngā Tamatoa members — including Hone Harawira, Tame Iti and Larry Parr— are interviewed by Paratene, who also presents the documentary.
The important thing is that the natives are daring at last to stand up and protest.– Māori activist Syd Jackson in a 1975 television interview
Key Cast & Crew
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Acknowledgements
Made with funding from NZ On Air
News photographs kindly supplied by The New Zealand Herald/NZME and Stuff/The Evening Post
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