Untold Pacific History

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Introducing: Untold Pacific History

2021-05-0304:02

A dynamic & often provocative account of New Zealand's relationship with the Pacific & the broad impact it's had on New Zealand's own history & relationship with Pacific peoples in Aotearoa today.

Waking Up to the Dawn Raids (Aotearoa)

2021-05-1737:03

Of the many events affecting Pasifika people in Aotearoa, the Dawn Raids story is overdue to be told.

White Man's Law (Niue)

2021-05-2439:09

What led Commissioner Larsen, the New Zealand administrator of Niue in the 1950s, to be murdered in his bed by three locals hell-bent on justice and revenge?

Bullets on Black Saturday (Samoa)

2021-05-3133:00

This episode examines the fatal consequences of New Zealand's rule in Samoa, and the key events that led to the rise of Samoa's 'Mau' resistance movement.

The Cursed Cook Islands Hotel (Rarotonga)

2021-06-0728:33

This is a story of indigenous land rights gone awry, a makutu from an aggrieved family and the failed business ventures of an infamous 'haunted hotel' in Rarotonga.

Coup Culture (Fiji)

2021-06-1440:08

This episode examines how and why Indian populations were brought to Fiji, and how the inequities under the colonial government's Girmit system, created a society of instability and countless coups.

Introducing: Untold Pacific History S2

2024-04-0301:19

Told in three separate stories, season two of Untold Pacific History shines a light on key events in the Niue, Samoa and Rarotonga that have been little told in Aotearoa.

The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue

2024-04-0931:43

This is the little known story of The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue: 150 men plucked from their island paradise and sent 17,000 kms away to the cold frontlines of France during World War I. The Niuean soldiers never made it to the frontline, however. They instead died en route with the introduction of diseases they had never been exposed to.

I’Iga Pisa, Samoa’s Unsung Hero

2024-04-1649:28

The life story of I'iga Pisa, an independence activist who sailed hundreds of kilometers in a small canoe to escape exile from Samoa.

Papa Tom Davis, From the Seas to the Stars (Rarotonga)

2024-04-2335:04

Papa Tom, an extraordinary Cook Islander who smashed new frontiers in space and the ocean in a life that spanned many fields of work.

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