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- Title
- Ngā Tohu: Signatures
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
This multi award-winning TV drama follows a whānau taking a claim to the Waitangi tribunal, over plans by a Pākehā neighbour to build a resort on disputed land. Ngā Tohu jumps between the present day and 1839/40, when Māori chiefs were canvassed to support the Treaty of Waitangi and a settler makes an equivocal land deal with Chief Tohu (George Henare). The exploration of the Treaty's evolving kaupapa is effectively humanised by an age-old love story, and it scored multiple drama gongs at 200...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2000
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/nga-tohu-signatures-2000
- Related subjects
- colonialism / bicultural / race relations / farmer / ruru / tupuna / kumara / eco-tourism / tourism / colonial / guy moana / resort / development / eco / tribunal / land claims / chief / treaty of waitangi / treaty / nz on air / new zealand on air / 65th regiment
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