Herries Beattie describes them in Nga Waka Press Release I, The Waitaha comprised three different peoples: The Moriori, or Maeroero, who at the time were giants, over l.8m and superb gardeners, able to grow the kumara 1000 km further south than in its South American homeland. May you journey far in peace and understanding.” Welcome to the trails of the peoples of the Nation of Waitaha. Let the ancient karakia and waiata be heard throughout the land.
“In the wisdom and aroha (love) of those words, we say: `Let the sacred kete (basket containing sacred knowledge) be opened for the ancestors to speak again. “We are of Tane Matua, and we follow Rongo Marae Roa, the God of Peace.” “We do this for the children, and their children, and all who call this land home.” “For it has been decided it is time for our treasures to be brought into the light.” In this way we protected our knowledge in the silence of the Whare Wananga, the School of Learning of Waitaha.” “Until now we have hidden our beginnings, and all that followed, in the shadows. Before beginning work on the book he had to lead a selected team of people across the Southern Alps to reopen old Waitaha greenstone trails closed for 130 years. The “Song of Waitaha” was a release to the world of secret traditions, geneology, and history, as told to the author by Waitaha elders, asserts Barry Brailsford.īrailsford says he had to earn the right. “ten years ago when I was called to write the story of Waitaha I was told by the elders that I would be challenged by Maori who did not want the story revealed, by Pakeha in the academic world who would not believe it, and by others who would wlak with their own agendas”. There is a Maori legend that tells of the Waitaha being the descendents of Chinese porters and stone cutters.īary Brailsford, author of ‘Tattooed Land’, ‘Greenstone Trails’, ‘Song of Waitaha’ has said simply: Two hundred tribes of the Waitaha nation settled in New Zealand and were then decimated by the warlike Maori who invaded the island some 800 years ago as an eerie precursor of the Maori massacre of the Moriori in the Chatham Islands. The Waitaha People – a Chinese colony that settled in New Zealand 2000 years ago.
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