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- Title
- The Life and Times of Te Tutu - Series Two
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
The settlers’ schemes keep coming — and chief Te Tutu (Pio Terei) continues to cut them down to size in this sharp-witted colonial satire. In this second series, the foibles and follies of the British newcomers are on full display as they try to trick and trade with Te Tutu and his whānau. They attempt to bamboozle Te Tutu into selling more of his land, with convoluted technology, jargon and plots. Issues such as dog tax, police, tourism, and the right to vote are picked apart and poked fun a...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2001
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-life-and-times-of-te-tutu-series-two-2001
- Related subjects
- 1800s / 1840s / newspapers / media / te reo / te reo māori / tobacco / tobacco smoking / snuff / intermarriage / cultural intermarriage / interracial / māori / pākehā / european settlers / telegraph / technology / morse code / governor grey / george grey / hone heke / nz wars / scottish / golf / leisure industry / land confiscation / land confiscations / toi māori / toi / art / māori art / colonialism / taonga / tattoos / dog tax / police force / police / voting / women's suffrage / government / land ownership / british class system / colonial / chief / gender roles / history / maori sovereignty / sovereignty / māori sovereignty / negotiations / nineteenth century / new zealand company / the new zealand company / nz on air / racism / rangatira / rivalry / slapstick / te tiriti o waitangi / treaty / treaty of waitangi / te tiriti / tohunga / waiata / wero / whānau / kurī / 2000s / 2001 / māori newspaper / victorian era / ta moko / voting rights / satire / colonisation / settlers / nz newspapers / marriage / weddings / governor george grey / golf course / art collector / policeman / marae / tā moko
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