“kaore e tae mai te pakeha!”

Chief Rawiri Tuaia at Gate Pa, translated as

“the white men will not reach us!”,

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British blockhouse built on Orakau Pa, 5 years after battle

Rongopai interior (via Neich)

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“[a]lthough we no longer, like our nineteenth-century tupuna Kawiti, fire

bullets at the ‘other’ across trenches...we do at times engage with one another in a

war of words and images.”Rangihiroa Panoho