Untold Pacific History

Untold Pacific History

A dynamic and often provocative account of New Zealand's relationship with the Pacific.

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May 3, 2021 4 mins

A dynamic & often provocative account of New Zealand's relationship with the Pacific & the broad impact it's had on New Zealand's own history & relationship with Pacific peoples in Aotearoa today.

Untold Pacific History is a dynamic and often provocative account of New Zealand's relationship with the Pacific and the broad impact it's had on New Zealand's own history and relationship with Pacific peoples in Aotearoa to...

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Of the many events affecting Pasifika people in Aotearoa, the Dawn Raids story is overdue to be told.

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Long whispered about in secret family conversations, people have heard the words 'Dawn Raids' but not what really happened.

In this critical examination of a time little-known in New Zealand's social history, this piece features key talent involved in the infamous New Zealand...

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May 24, 2021 39 mins

What led Commissioner Larsen, the New Zealand administrator of Niue in the 1950s, to be murdered in his bed by three locals hell-bent on justice and revenge?

25/05/2021: We have updated this file with an acknowledgement of the death of Alapasa Nemaia who sadly passed away after the filming of this video and the important contribution she made to this story.

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In an extraordinary story of the ...

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May 31, 2021 33 mins

This episode examines the fatal consequences of New Zealand's rule in Samoa, and the key events that led to the rise of Samoa's 'Mau' resistance movement.

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The Mau became a revolutionary movement for Samoa's independence against New Zealand's brutal period of colonial administration. In what is possibly one of the most significant stories of New Zealand's little-known histo...

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This is a story of indigenous land rights gone awry, a makutu from an aggrieved family and the failed business ventures of an infamous 'haunted hotel' in Rarotonga.

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In pre-colonial times, it was the scene of bloody battles between rival tribes, and ancient spirits are said to patrol the area. It is also the subject of a bitter ownership dispute that dates back more than a century and which...

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June 14, 2021 40 mins

This episode examines how and why Indian populations were brought to Fiji, and how the inequities under the colonial government's Girmit system, created a society of instability and countless coups.

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Delving into the legacy of the colonial history that underpins much of the racial disharmony in modern day Fiji, this episode examines some of the fraught factors that have led to the migration...

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Told in three separate stories, season two of Untold Pacific History shines a light on key events in the Niue, Samoa and Rarotonga that have been little told in Aotearoa.

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April 9, 2024 31 mins

This is the little known story of The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue: 150 men plucked from their island paradise and sent 17,000 kms away to the cold frontlines of France during World War I. The Niuean soldiers never made it to the frontline, however. They instead died en route with the introduction of diseases they had never been exposed to.

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April 16, 2024 49 mins

The life story of I'iga Pisa, an independence activist who sailed hundreds of kilometers in a small canoe to escape exile from Samoa.

*This story was updated on 9/5/2024 to clarify details regarding I'iga Pisa's life.

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In 1909, Samoan independence activist I'iga Pisa was condemned to exile in Saipan by the German colonisers of Western Samoa.

In an extraordinary feat, he escaped...

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Papa Tom, an extraordinary Cook Islander who smashed new frontiers in space and the ocean in a life that spanned many fields of work.

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Papa Tom's quest for truth, history, and culture has taken him around the world and even out to space, but it was in Aotearoa and the Cook Islands that it all began...

The extraordinary Cook Islander, the first person from New Zealand and the Pacific to ...

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