There’s a Māori whakataukī (proverb) that says, “Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua. / I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past.”
The loop of past, present and future speaks to New Zealand Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana, the latest in Aotearoa Media Collective’s documentary series on the land wars that shaped us as a nation.
It’s a loop that traverses the bloody 1843- 72 struggle for control and sovereignty of Aotearoa to the consequences of that struggle: mass
