To end our chapter on the pre-European period of Aotearoa’s history I asked for your questions and you delivered! You guys sent in so many/I spoke too much that I had to split the episode into 5 parts.
I messed up the audio a little bit in these episodes and it was gonna be a huge hassle to fix it so I’ve decided to leave it as is. It’s not awful, just not as good as I’d like so apologies for that!
Topics covered in the episode are:
The history of the All Blacks haka Kapa O Pango?
Pre-European hunting, particularly of birds and rats
The legend of Hatupatu
History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast 
Hi, I am a Kiwi living in Canberra. My first 30 years I lived in Dunedin and . I am of scottish/spanish decent with no Maori blood. I have several Kirituhi done free hand based on my life and family. I feel like I’m still grounded back home. I went in saying I like that pattern and I like that pattern…… I was told that’s not how it’s done and he proceeded to just talk about me and my family, where I was from and life. It was a very emotional experience and now it’s not just a pattern its ‘deeper’ than that and I get quite emotional thinking into it…. feels weird to actually say that to me as I wouldn’t say I’m a very spiritual person. I wonder if Maori with Moko realise how that can affect a non Maori person. My question is around regional dialects in the Maori language. My example is when I was growing up (1970’s-80’s) even the local Maori said KOWHAI with a more Ko-hai sound dropping the ‘F’ sound (I think similar to some of the pacific islands people) Has the dialect of the strongest Iwi taken over?
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Kia ora Paul, I’m unsure what you mean by the ‘strongest’ iwi but I don’t believe there is one dominant dialect. It sounds like the area you grew up in had a dialect which dropped the F sound on words with WH. This, as far as I am aware, is not how most other dialects of Te Reo pronounce words. Ngā mihi, Thomas
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