History of Aotearoa New Zealand

Today I tell the story Hina-Uri, who you may remember is the woman whose husband was turned into a dog by Māui. We discover what happened to her after her life changed.

Story told from a combination of Maori Myths & Legendary Tales by A. W. Reed and Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race By Sir George Grey from The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection.

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Today it's just a random mix of stuff about how various plants were cooked and eaten, such as pūhā, pikopiko and basket fungus!

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Moving away from cooking slightly, we talk about how birds in pre-European Aotearoa were caught and then how they were preserved via drying, smoking or in their own fat in gourds! We also talk about hunting kiore and how mans best friend got involved!

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We talk all about how Māori were cooking with some more in depth discussion on hangi, what feasts were for and what they involved and even a few stories from some feasts!

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Cover photo from Wikipedia of some men around a hangi in Te Whāiti, 1930

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This episode we start talking about how Pre-European Māori were cooking their food and constructing their meals, with some stuff on feasting as well!

Roroi recipe from Radio New Zealand.

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Today we have a few different stories about fish! Featuring the rangatira of whales, Pelorus Jack and even a war between mussels and cockles!

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We finish up our look into fishing talking about freshwater species such as tuna (eels) and īnanga (whitebait), as well as some stuff about mātauranga Māori and Western science!

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We talk some more about nets! This time it's bag nets and set trap nets as well as some cool info on the extinct upokororo, the NZ grayling!

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We continue discussing nets with scoops nets, focussing mostly on the seven different ways to catch kehe! Along with how to catch kahawai and warehou.

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We discuss all about kupenga, nets! The tapu around their manufacture, what they were made for and a bit on how they worked.

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